Congrats to Kitrosser! With a record-breaking 1,320 submissions this year, The Lark chose his SVETLANA! SVETLANA as a finalist.
D.C. friends, come listen to Sara Jean Accuardi’s STORYTELLER
THE STORYTELLER, which debuted in Fertile Ground, is getting a staged reading on October 27, 2019, at Spooky Action Theater in Washington, D.C.

Holly Richards welcomes you to her new musical in our next Bimonthly Reading
LineStorm Playwrights and Broadway Rose Theatre present a new musical about a Mormon family who, upon learning their son is gay, must try to reconcile this new reality with the beliefs that form the foundation of their faith.
WELCOME TO ZION by Holly Richards
Sunday, October 6, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Broadway Rose Theatre
Reserve your FREE tickets here.

Generously supported by Ronni Lacroute.
Double the celebration for Faust and Rubin
Congratulations to Susan Faust for CONFABULOUS and Rich Rubin for DESCENT FROM THE ANDES, both finalists for the 2020 Portland Civic Theatre Guild New Play Award.
PHAME students create and perform rock opera
LineStorm can’t wait to start collaborating with PHAME on writing projects!
Hear more about their current opera on Think Out Loud.
Read more at The Oregonian and Oregon ArtsWatch.
E. M. Lewis joins OSF’s American Revolutions!
Lewis is one of six playwrights given a commission to develop new plays about moments of change in U.S. history. Read more at American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle.
PICASSO IN PARIS…in Naples!
Rich Rubin’s PICASSO IN PARIS is one of three winners of Gulfshore Playhouse’s New Works Festival, with a public reading in Naples, Florida, on September 15, 2019. Read an interview with Rubin about the inspiration for the project here. And a piece in Florida Weekly here.
Wondering what’s FOR RENT in Los Angeles?
Lolly Ward’s play FOR RENT will be in the Short+Sweet Hollywood festival, running Sept. 24-Oct. 28, 2019.
Welcome to our newest member, Holly Richards!
Check out her bio and website through our Playwrights page, and be sure to say hello at our next meeting or reading.

Barrett to get MFA from UCLA
Congratulations to Brianna Barrett, one of the few, the proud accepted to the UCLA Department of Theater’s Playwriting program!
