Florida Repertory Theatre, an Associate Member of the National New Play Network, is seeking submissions for its 2026 PlayLab Festival, slated for April 30 to May 1.
PlayLab is an intensive weekend of rehearsals, readings, talkbacks and development that brings professional playwrights, directors, actors and audiences together to work on up to five new plays in a laboratory setting.
The festival’s reading committee will read and evaluate the submitted works, and the theatre will announce the selected plays and playwrights in early 2026. Each showcased playwright joins the development process to work on their play with a company of professional actors and a director in preparation for a public reading…