Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading SERIES 2026
JULY 18 - 26, 2026
ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE
FREE ADMISSION. Reservations Recommended.
IAMA Theatre Company presents staged readings of six new plays written by members of the company’s 2025-26 Emerging Playwrights Lab. Readings will take place over the course of two weekends, July 18 through July 26, at the Atwater Village Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public; reservations are recommended.
Making up the Lab’s Class of ’26 are Andrew Grace, Aja Houston, Josh Levine, Tyree Marshall, Samah Meghjee, and Erica Wachs. The six playwrights met on a monthly basis during their one-year residency to share and develop work in a peer-guided format led by program director Nicholas Pilapil, himself an IAMA Playwrights Lab alumnus. Pilapil’s play, The Bottoming Process, developed in the inaugural 2019-20 Lab, was produced by IAMA in a co-production with the Los Angeles LGBT Center in 2023. Also developed in the 2019-20 Lab, Job by Max Wolf Friedlich, went on to receive a Broadway run from July 15 through October 27, 2024.
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