06/11/2026
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!
Inaugural Carolina New Works Play Festival presents winning works in July
The festival is a collaboration between the Department of Theatre and Three Bone Theatre.
Three high schoolers on the last day of senior year. A gay man returning to his small Southern hometown and aging parents. Ambitious Los Angeles creatives are tempted by ChatGPT.
These characters will breathe their first when the Carolina New Works Play Festival presents its inaugural cohort of plays in two sets of public staged readings, July 24-26 and July 31-Aug. 2.
Founded by the UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre and Three Bone Theatre, the Carolina New Works Play Festival showcases plays from North and South Carolina playwrights, selected through a rigorous juried process. This year’s winning plays are “TRE,” by T.J. Lewis; “How I Got Forgotten,” by Glenn Rawls; and “You Can’t Smoke in Burbank,” by Skylar Schock.
After each reading, playwrights and artists will host post-show discussions with the audience. Audiences will witness the creative process, and their feedback will become part of the plays’ development.nd July 31-Aug. 2 at The Arts Factory on West Trade Street.
For more information about the 2026 festival performances, including showtimes, and the guidelines for future play submissions, visit the CNWPF webpage.
