Playwriting Residencies

Since 2002, the William Inge Center for the Arts has hosted outstanding playwrights as part of the Inge House Playwrights-in-Residence. To date, over 50 playwrights have lived in Independence for extended residencies at the William Inge Family Home. They each received a play development workshop of one of their scripts and distraction-free time for writing.

The residency hopes to provide the opportunity to develop a playwright’s new plays in the same surroundings that inspired young William Inge to his Pulitzer Prize winning work. 

The residency is supported in large part by an ArtsWorks grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the William Inge Festival Foundation.

We are not accepting applications at this time.

 Spring 2024 Playwright in Residence

Emma Horwitz

Emma Horwitz

Emma Horwitz is a writer from New York City. Recent productions include: Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, co-created with Bailey Williams, dir. by Tara Elliot, Exponential Festival, January 2024. Mary Gets... Read more

Past Playwrights-in-residence

In alphabetical order.