Who is Axial Theatre

Axial Theatre is a community of collaborators. It is made up of actors, writers, directors, and musicians who are dedicated to working together to create original theatre. We are a community committed to the process of developing new plays through workshops, stage readings, and fully staged productions.

The Writers' Workshop

Two Sundays every month, Axial meets with company and guest playwrights. Actors read scenes from the plays under development and the group offers a critique of the work, focusing on what each playwright is trying to achieve. The process involves an ongoing commitment by the whole group to the work of each playwright, so that everyone is aware of where each play is headed and where it is in the development process.

Where and When

5 – 7:15 pm and every other Sunday beginning January 21st. Email us before you come to confirm that we are meeting. Meetings are at Axial's new home:

48 Wheeler Avenue, 3rd floor
Pleasantville, N.Y. 10570

For our New York City-based playwrights and actors, this involves an easy train ride from Grand Central Station to Pleasantville on the Harlem Line.

Productions

It is Axial’s ambition to produce or workshop some of the plays developed in the development series. Over the past two years, two programs of one-act plays have been presented at HERE in Soho to sold-out houses; a full-length play was presented in Yorktown Heights; production of another full-length play is planned for 2006. All these plays were developed in the series.

Who Are the Playwrights

Membership is limited to ten playwrights. Whenever vacancies occur, Axial will invite new playwrights to join the program. Playwrights interested in participating are invited to e-mail a 10 to 15-page writing sample to thataxial@aol.com -- please include contact information.

Workshop Photos

Stephen Palgon (left) and Tony Howarth (right) reading from Brian Quirk's
Crash, Part II at the New Works in New York Reading Series

Actors, playwrights and directors gather in May, 2004 for a
session of the New Works in New York Reading Series

Playwright and actor Brian Quirk preparing to read a role
at the New Works in New York Reading Series