2025 New Play Labs
Paula Fell and Janyth Fell – Sweet Revenge or Pass The Aggressive Please
Emma Goldman-Sherman – The Slap of 1973
Conor LaRocque – The Sylvan Tollway
Katherine Swan – Blue Eyes
Chelsea Sutton – I Say Running is like Breathing
Peter Anderegg – Toe to Toe
Jason Rainey – Missouri Waltz
Eric Lane – Riverbed
Damian Hawkins – Leaves
Shayne Kennedy – Violation Cygnus
Noah T. Parnes – Rubato
Shannon Chinn – Ronnie, Rosie, and the Feminine Mystique
John Mabey – The Shape Of Goodbye
Debra A. Cole – Song and Dance Man
2025 New Play Lab Playwrights
Peter Anderegg
Now residing in Ashburnham, MA, Peter Anderegg once lived in Hollywood and wrote scripts for Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby-doo, Yogi Bear, and Gobots until deciding he preferred steadier work and health insurance and so became a librarian. Retiring after 30 years,... Read more
Shannon Chinn
Shannon Chinn is a Nebraska based playwright whose works have been performed on Nebraska high school and university stages. Her playwriting credits include The Fall of Lafontaine Manor, The Tempest’s Tale or, Caught Between the... Read more
Paula Fell
Paula Fell’s play The Rooster’s Tale was awarded the OCPA’s Erica Bennett Playwriting Prize and was produced by The Lab Theater Project. Her play Trust Me was produced by The Lab Theater Project and was... Read more
Janyth Fell
Janyth Fell has written the novel A Dilemma and numerous short stories. She co-wrote The Garden Stalker with her daughter, Paula Fell, which was performed as part of Santa Fe Playhouse’s Benchwarmers Play Festival. She... Read more
Emma Goldman-Sherman
Emma Goldman-Sherman’s plays have been produced on 4 continents and published by Applause, Brooklyn Publishers, Smith & Kraus and Next Stage Press. Abraham’s Daughters can be heard as a podcast at TheParsnipShip.com. Their plays have been... Read more
Damian Hawkins
Damian Hawkins is an emerging playwright with an interest in exploring family dynamics on stage. In addition to forcing characters to confront what lies beneath the surface, his work has also been described as capturing... Read more
Shayne Kennedy
Shayne Kennedy’s play, Agreed Upon Fictions, premiered at 16th Street Theater in 2014. Handled premiered at Creighton University and was produced at The Wildwood Theatre in Minneapolis. Mrs. Whitman’s Words for Women was produced at... Read more
Conor LaRocque
Conor LaRocque is an early-career playwright from Auburn, Alabama. He earned a Playwriting M.F.A. from The Catholic University of America, and was named a regional semi-finalist for the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award in... Read more
John Mabey
John Mabey is a writer and storyteller whose plays have been published and produced on stage in 8 countries and throughout the United States. John lived in Europe for a decade before residing in Atlanta and... Read more
Noah T. Parnes
Noah T. Parnes is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and drag artist. A recent graduate of Yale University, he is interested in exploring queerness and experimenting with conventional structure. Noah’s plays have been commissioned and produced... Read more
Jason Rainey
Jason Rainey is a member of ScriptWorks in Austin. His work has been commissioned, presented, or produced by ScriptWorks, Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK), Penobscot Theatre (Bangor, ME), Daedalus Theatre (Columbus), Freshwater Theatre (Minneapolis), Mildred’s... Read more
Chelsea Sutton
Chelsea Sutton is an LA-based writer and theatre maker of what she likes to call gothic whimsy. She’s a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a Humanitas PlayLA award-winner, a graduate of the 2022 Clarion Science... Read more
Katherine Swan
Katherine Swan is a playwright who lives in Chicago. Her work explores desire, creativity, and violence in the lives of women. Her plays include Some Other Woman Like Me, a finalist for the Henley Rose Award,... Read more