Brooklyn Playwrights Collective is an eight-year-old membership organization of playwrights from Brooklyn and the New York area. We meet regularly in BrooklSyn to read our work aloud, offer supportive critique, and share information about new script submission opportunities.

Currently, we meet biweekly on Sunday afternoons, usually at the ART/New York space on South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Email us to receive notices for our meetings and events. New writers are welcome to bring in scenes of 10 pages or less to read when they attend their second meeting (or thereafter). The first time you attend is an opportunity to listen and check us out.

In the past, BPC has produced annual festivals of one-act plays inspired by the work of a noted theatre artist, including: Artaud, Brecht, Chekhov, and Dante. Currently, we're not anticipating any productions in the near future.

We are pleased to announce for 2011 that we are making plans for a new reading series open to the public. Watch this space for more information or join our mailing list. Welcome!

Previous Productions

2010's Dramatizing Dante

2009's Confronting Chekhov
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NYTheatre.com raves, "Clearly, the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective has a talented stable of writers.... One of the company's slogans is 'Support your local playwright.' After seeing this evening of plays, I most certainly will."

Read all reviews here.

2011 Member Updates

C.J. Ehrlich- Noir in Second Class, produced at Bruschetta Fest (Chicago, Oct 2010), will be published in Smith & Kraus' "Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2011." It Skips a Generation was produced by The College of Brockport. Brockport, NY (Feb/March), and at Theatre Ariel in Philadelphia, in April.

Jean Hart-Has two plays at New York Artists Unlimited Summer 2010 CringeFest: Red Dirt, White Trash and Nanny Lends a Hand. Also, Applying Emily at the Buffalo Quickies Festival 2011. Look for Hot for Hedda, to be presented by The Beat at Sidewalks of New York in summer 2011.

Les Hunter’s collaboratively written play, You Are Now the Owner of this Suitcase, is going up March 11-April 3 at Theatre 167. His musical Getting There, written with Ben Morss (Angelina Ballerina: The Musical), was recently developed at Millikin University, and will have a NYC reading in June.

Philip J Kaplan- Dante's Inferno: The Motion Picture, which premiered at the BPC’s Dante Festival, was produced by the Visceral Theatre in Los Angeles in October 2010, and will be published in December 2011 in Hill and Knaus's Best 10 Minute Plays.

Ed Malin- Upcoming: A reading of The Addicts courtesy of Boo Arts, March 2011, as well as a reading of Inversion of the Baby Snatchers in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, June 2011.

Maria Micheles- Reviews for nytheatre and a contributes for the "National Herald," a Greek-American weekly. Around the Night Park was chosen for the "Dream Up Festival" in August 2010. Selections from, Photoplay: Re-imagining of Diane Arbus will be performed at the WAH this spring.

Jerry Polner's play Fix Number Six was recently published by Next Stage Press.