07/03/2026
Calling all ACTORS! Most actors are trained to perform what's on the page. Few are taught how to help shape what's becoming the page.
One of the most valuable and overlooked skills in today's theatre industry is knowing how to develop a new play.
Join us on July 26 as we discuss and experiment with techniques from preparation, table discussion, stage directions and physicalization, interaction with the writer, dramaturg, and director, as well as acting techniques for both cold and rehearsed readings.
If you want to become the actor playwrights request, directors trust, and creative teams bring back, learn the process behind great new work.
Our new three-hour workshop will focus on the role of the actor in the development of new plays, from the beginning of the process through an initial reading for an audience.
The workshop will be led by Nancy Boykin, an accomplished actor who previously taught acting and theatre at Temple Theaters and Villanova Theatre and recently appeared as Miz Martha in "The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames" at The Wilma Theater.
She will be joined by playwright and Foundry Lead Artist L M Feldman, who will share insights into what best serves the writer, the script, the actor, and the creative process. Participants will experiment with both rehearsed and unrehearsed new text, as well as generative prompts before the text even exists.
Register at www.playpenn.org/events. Scholarships are available!
Acting Workshop for New Play Development and Readings – The Proscenium Theatre at the Drake, Sun Jul 26, 2026 - Learn More About the 2026 Conference
