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2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

For nearly 30 years, the Performing Arts Department has produced the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival as a vehicle to support and develop new plays written by WashU students.

The annual Festival begins with a university-wide solicitation of new, unproduced plays. Several plays are selected, through an anonymized screening process, to be developed in a two-week event in September. During those two weeks, each play will be workshopped with a professional dramaturg, a faculty director and student cast. The Festival culminates in a public staged reading of each play. Assistant Professor Zachariah Ezer will serve as Festival dramaturg in September 2024.

This year’s Festival is supported by a grant from Tim Hotchner.

Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Escape
by Zach Berger
Directed by Jeffery Matthews

Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Follow the....
by Frauke Thielecke
Directed by Annamaria Pileggi

All Readings take place in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

Admission is free.