Playwrights Local
Designation: Professional
Average Ticket Prices: $12 - $18
Phone: (216) 302-8856
Performance Address:
Creative Space at Waterloo Arts
397 East 156th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44110
Mission Statement
Playwrights Local is dedicated to supporting the dramatists of Northeast Ohio. As a playwrights’ development and production center, we foster diverse talents and present locally written works. We strive to increase the impact of original theater on the community and to raise the profile of area playwrights both within Greater Cleveland and beyond.
Current and Upcoming Shows
Suspended Operations in September of 2023.
Previously Produced Shows
To The Orchard
May 27 - June 12, 2016
Objectively/Reasonable
August 18 - September 4, 2016
2nd Annual Cleveland Playwrights Festival
Novemeber 4 - 6, 2016
This is NOT About My Dead Dog
January 13 - January 28, 2017
Objectively/Reasonable
February 17 - March 11, 2017
The Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival
March 23 - 25, 2017
2017 Play Lab + Spring Workshops
April 12 & 15, 2017
Things as They Are
May 12 - 28, 2017
3rd Annual Cleveland Playwrights Festival
September 23, 2017
Fall Roundtable: Family Tree
October 17, 2017
Fall Roundtable: 1,000 Hills
October 24, 2017
Fall Roundtable: Stranded
November 7, 2017
Fall Roundtable: Hey Siri
November 14, 2017
2018 Play Lab + Spring Workshops
March 17 - 18, April 6, 2018
The Panther Dancer
May 11 - 26, 2018
Above and Beyond, and The Silence of Dr. & Mrs. Calagari
November 2 - 18, 2018
Young Playwrights Collective
January 21 - 22 and 29, 2019
Tatterhood
April 11 - 13, 2019
Thiz Girlz Lyfe
May 3 - 18, 2019
Live Bodies For Sale
November 22 - December 15, 2019
Godly Boys and Golden Girls
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Touch (Reading)
Thursday, October 15th, 2020 (Online)
The Storm (Reading)
Thursday, October 29th, 2020 (Online)
The Curve of your Spine is my Home (Reading)
Thursday, November 12th, 2020 (Online)
The Mirror Effect (Reading)
Thursday, November 19th, 2020 (Online)
Men Don't Cry (Reading)
Wednesday January 27, 2021 (Online)
Leaving Home (Reading)
Wednesday February 24, 2021 (Online)
The Canvas (Reading)
Wednesday March 24, 2021 (Online)
Where's Charlie? (Reading)
Thursday, Septemebr 29, 2021
The Mirror Effect (Reading)
Thursday, November 11, 2021
The King of Cage Street
December 9 - 12, 2021
Millwood Outpost
March 18 - April 2, 2022
Super New Play Special! A Festival of Short Works
May 13 - 14, 2022
The Phoenix Society
May 20 - 29, 2022