Under Construction 6 Submissions now open!
The Road is proud to begin its SIXTH year of Under Construction, a playwright’s group that develops socially and politically relevant voices and thoughts to the American stage. Under Construction will be meeting both virtually and in person in 2025 and is open to playwrights on a national level. We will be selecting 7 playwrights to join the virtual 2025 cohort and 7 playwrights to join us live at our theatre.
Beginning in late March, this group will meet twice a month live (Day/Time TBD). And on Zoom for the virtual cohort (Day/Time TBD). Each playwright must enter this group with the beginnings of a new play, and we will work collaboratively for a 10-month gestation process on the development of each piece. This program is modeled for playwrights who would benefit from a structured space to receive feedback from peers, all in the supportive environment of The Road Theatre Company.
The goal of Under Construction is simple: to leave with a deeper knowledge of playwriting through collaborating and sharing with one’s peers, and for each participant to create a new piece of theatre that is workshop ready; a curated play! Playwrights are given live readings of their plays in our state-of-the-art theatre on Magnolia Blvd. in North Hollywood. Initial drafts will be read by fellow playwrights, but participants in this program will also have access to The Road’s talented ensemble of theatre artists for private readings, as well as support from the Artistic Team at The produced 4 plays. UC5 readings are happening NOW and we hope to have a play from that series as well.
Please let us know if you would like to apply for Under Construction at The Road, by giving us a 20 page sample of your work and a pitch for the next play you’d like to work on. Please send submissions to underconstruction@roadtheatre.org We look forward to hearing from you!
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! Deadline is February 8,2025..
FACILITATORS
Mackenna Goodrich (she/her) lives for the creation of new work. This is Mackenna’s third year of facilitating Under Construction. As a writer, she has written for The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, the Stagefemmes One-Act Festival, and the Bad Play Festival. Selected directing and choreography credits: The Laundry Play (The Chain Theatre; by UC4’s Sarah Groustra), An Axe-mas Story (The Players Theatre; by UC3’s Charlie O’Leary), Kids Club/Club Kids (The Fled Collective; by UC2’s Jasmine Sharma), The Pine Barrens (Lime Arts), Dance Nation (Kenyon College), Cabaret (Kenyon College Players), The Moors (Stagefemmes). BA: Kenyon College. Member of The Fled Collective. For more, check out mackennagoodrich.com and @mack3nna on Instagram.
Adam Hunter Howard [he/him], a Los Angeles native, is a playwright, educator, and actor. He recently completed the Road Theatre Company’s Under Construction 3 cohort, where he developed his newest play, Feast, and he is thrilled to rejoin the company as a co-coordinator for the UC4 group. Adam’s play, Headwind, a harsh look into the privilege of selective college admissions at independent private schools, was selected for the IAMA Theatre Company’s New Works Festival in 2019, and his play, Aine, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, reset amidst “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has also adapted Lewis Carroll’s classics into What Alice Found There, a piece designed for school-age actors or older. As an actor, Adam was most recently featured in the role of Leon Czolgosz in Assassins at the Pico Playhouse. He has also performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, with the Antaeus Theatre Company, and at various venues in Los Angeles, Austin, and Edinburgh. Adam has been an educator for over twenty years, working as a Drama teacher, English teacher, and college counselor. His most valued accomplishments, however, are his two young sons – Andrew and Max. MFA: The University of Texas at Austin, BA: Kenyon College.
William Francis Hoffman was born and raised in Oakville, Missouri. He was a one time member of the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago Illinois and is a current member of the Actor’s Gym in Los Angeles, California. His play ‘Cal in Camo’ received its world premiere Off Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in May of 2016, as a co-production between Colt Coeur and Rattlestick. It was Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt and featured David Harbour, Paul Wesley, and Katya Campbell. ‘Cal in Camo’ received its Midwest premiere in 2018 at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago IL. The production was a Critic’s Pick in Time Out NY and garnered a Joseph Jefferson Award win in the supporting role category for actor Keith Kupferer. ‘Cal in Camo’ received subsequent productions and readings in Los Angeles, New Paltz, New York and Brisbane, Australia. His play ‘Drift’ was developed at the Actor’s Gym in Los Angeles. It was subsequently workshopped as part of the New Plays/New Year Festival at Palm Beach Dramaworks in Palm Beach, Florida in 2019. ‘Drift’ was set to receive its world premiere Off-Broadway at The New World Stages, but was closed three nights before its opening due to the Covid – 19 Pandemic. William co-moderates the Playwright’s Development Unit at the Actor’s Studio Los Angeles, and works frequently as a dramaturg.