We are excited to bring PlayList back in 2025
for a third cycle! Click HERE for info
Click HERE to see details from the 2024 PlayList project, and HERE for the 2023 project
PlayList is a short play development series where a cohort of playwrights are selected to write new 10 minute plays inspired by creative prompts linked by a theme. Each playwright submits suggestions to fit the prompt, which always include a song related to the theme. The suggestions are “shuffled” among the playwrights to be used as inspiration points for their plays. Over the course of several moderated feedback sessions with our community of artists and invited guests, playwrights complete the project with a rigorously crafted, submission-ready short play, culminating in a public presentation of the work.
PlayList is for writers of any background, identity, education or experience level who are interested in honing their work on a short script with a room full of artists experienced in new play development.
The CRY HAVOC Company believes that writing a script doesn’t have to be a completely solitary experience. Collaborative feedback at key points in your writing process can bring you closer to your goals. Our approach to script development places your writing goals at the center of the workshop process, ensuring that collaborators are giving feedback that helps you write the play you are trying to write.
PlayList-developed plays have received numerous productions and awards, including twice being selected for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and PlayList alumni playwrights have gone on to prestigious commissions, residencies, and recognition. Read about some of their successes below!
SMJ’s PlayList-developed play sundays in the park with clay & cher was a Top 30 Selection for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, was a Finalist & Honorable Mention for the David A. Einhorn Prize, and was Performed at the Special 10th Edition of Fucked-Up Play Fest. Roni Ragone’s PlayList-developed play Left Overs was a Top 30 Selection for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and had two full productions, one with Queer Voices Festival and one with Precarious Nights, Precarious Theatre. Bailey Jordan Garcia’s PlayList-developed play The We Heart Christopher H. Mahoney Through Time and Space Forever Club had a full production with Bite-Sized Spooktacular and a staged reading with Pioneer Productions. Veda Kumarjiguda’s PlayList-developed play Welcome to New York had a reading with Sour Grapes Productions.
Since participating in PlayList, Mik Berry has been awarded the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project Commission. SMJ has completed the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, become Co-Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse (Wilton, NH), been an Ars Nova CAMP Resident, and a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists. Bailey Jordan Garcia and fellow PlayList alumnus Roni Ragone have co-founded Fresh Binder Productions, a theatrical home for emerging trans/non-binary/genderqueer playwrights. Bailey has also had three commissions since PlayList, two with PlayGround NYC and one with Appalachian Center for the Arts, and they have been selected as a member of Purple Light Productions' Pallet Cohort. Roni has had numerous full productions of other work since PlayList, with Boone Community Theatre, Time2Shine, House of Rooted Festival, Out/Play Summer Shorts Festival, among others. Marcus Scott has won the Chesley/Bumbalo Award for Playwriting, which came with an artist residency with the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He has been a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellows Program, a Top 30 finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary's 2025 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, and selected as an artist-in-residence with The Outrage - A Queer Writer’s Residency. He has also had a screenplay designated as a semifinalist for the ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Competition, and a full length play advanced to the Second Round in the Stage Play category at the Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition. He has had full productions of his work by the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY and the Black Men Talk Play Festival (upcoming), a reading with the Garden State New Play Festival, and a publication in OBSIDIAN. Matty Mahoski has completed their year-long fellowship with write it out! through New World Foundation that culminated in a reading at The Dramatists Guild, and participated in Fresh Binder’s writers’ cohort. They have also been named a semifinalist for Rattlestick Theater’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, La Mama’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship, and Fault Line Theatre Company’s Irons in the Fire. Veda Kumarjiguda has had full-length readings at the Dramatists Guild Foundation and Lab86, been selected for the Playwright Residency at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, and been awarded the ESPA Mary Louise Scholarship. Cherise Kimoy has completed her MFA in dramatic writing at NYU Tisch and was asked to be a commencement speaker at graduation. She has a debut solo showcase and a reading of her thesis play coming up soon. Gaurav Mishra has joined the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Writing Workshop and composed and sound designed for shows in FL, NY, and CA. He has also been invited to Drama Club Productions's writing residency, "Camp".