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  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Diversity, Equity, and inclusion
  • Programs
    • Take Ten
    • Aspiring Playwrights
    • Visionary Playwrights
    • Theater for Social Change
  • Alumni
    • Take Ten
    • Aspiring Playwrights
    • Visionary Playwrights
    • Other Programs
  • Auditions
  • Support
  • Contact
  • Visionary Playwrights

​TAKE TEN

Bridging the Gap between Playwrights' Education and Career

Theater Masters hosts a national 10-minute playwriting competition among the students at the top MFA programs in the country. Out of 60+ submissions, 6-7 winning plays are selected by a reading panel made up of industry professionals.
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Once selected, the MFA playwrights are given feedback to further develop their plays. They are then flown to New York City where they are able to observe the process of putting their plays into production, with a team of professional actors, directors and designers, culminating in a three night run of their work at a reputable New York City theater.

During this New York production week, Theater Masters also provide the playwrights with "Wonder Week," during which we arrange meetings with the top agents, literary managers, and artistic directors in the industry, offer them professional development panels with working playwrights, and introduce them to the writers' guilds as well as major theaters in NYC. This is a unique and career-starting program for these young playwrights that has launched the careers of our many successful alumni. 

We are the only organization to bridge the gap between the training playwrights receive in their MFA programs and the professional careers that lay ahead of them.  


Anthology by Samuel French


​We are excited to announce that A Concord Theatrical Company: Samuel French is publishing an annual anthology of the winning plays from our National MFA Playwrights Festival.

Order your acting edition - a perfect-bound script for use in production or as a reading edition.
Learn More and Order Your Copy
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Past National Adjudicators

Craig Lucas 2019
​David Auburn 2018

Abe Koogler 2017
Alexander Maggio 2016
Kathleen Chalfant 2015
Robert LuPone 2014
Theresa Rebeck 2013
A.R. Gurney 2012
Eric Bogosian 2011
Lanford Wilson 2010
Gordon Davidson 2009 
John Lithgow 2008
John Guare 2007
Alfred Uhry 2006 
Christopher Durang 2005 
Terrence McNally 2004
William Luce 2003

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About
​  Who We Are
Programs
  Take Ten
  Aspiring Playwrights
​  Visionary Playwrights
​  Meeting on the Page

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Alumni
  Take Ten
  Aspiring Playwrights
  Visionary Playwrights
​  Other Programs​  
Auditions
Support
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PO Box 899, Aspen, CO 81612

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(970) 633-0731

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info@theatermasters.org

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