Palm Beach Dramaworks

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional not-for-profit theatre company in West Palm Beach, Florida, known for producing lavish productions of classic American plays. As an an associate member theatre of NNPN, PBD also develops new works through The Dramaworkshop. Script submissions are only accepted from established literary agents, though we do occasionally find scripts through NPX as well. Of these submissions, a select number are chosen for assessment readings through our ongoing Drama(in the...

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional not-for-profit theatre company in West Palm Beach, Florida, known for producing lavish productions of classic American plays. As an an associate member theatre of NNPN, PBD also develops new works through The Dramaworkshop. Script submissions are only accepted from established literary agents, though we do occasionally find scripts through NPX as well. Of these submissions, a select number are chosen for assessment readings through our ongoing Drama(in the)works series. Each year, five of these titles receive staged readings at our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January with the goal of identifying plays that will move on to various phases of development such as workshops, developmental studio productions, and/or world premieres in our main stage season.

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  • Little Row Boat was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays (formerly called the New Year/New Plays Festival) in January of 2024. A fascinating, funny, poetic, and highly theatrical exploration of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his sibling slaves, Sally and James Hemings. Filled with ferocity, sorrow, pain, and beauty, the characters and their struggles - power and personal - come alive amid some truly sublime and harrowing imagery of Greenidge's amazing invention.

    Little Row Boat was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays (formerly called the New Year/New Plays Festival) in January of 2024. A fascinating, funny, poetic, and highly theatrical exploration of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his sibling slaves, Sally and James Hemings. Filled with ferocity, sorrow, pain, and beauty, the characters and their struggles - power and personal - come alive amid some truly sublime and harrowing imagery of Greenidge's amazing invention.

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    Stockade was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays (formerly called the New Year/New Plays Festival) in January of 2024. A visceral, haunting, funny, and moving play about a little-known part of US History - queer stockades during WWII. A group of gay war friends find themselves reunited, and their history threatens to destroy not only their very relationships but the new post-war lives they've fought so hard to create and protect.

    Stockade was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays (formerly called the New Year/New Plays Festival) in January of 2024. A visceral, haunting, funny, and moving play about a little-known part of US History - queer stockades during WWII. A group of gay war friends find themselves reunited, and their history threatens to destroy not only their very relationships but the new post-war lives they've fought so hard to create and protect.

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    Proximity was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays (formerly called the New Year/New Plays Festival) in January of 2024. A beautiful, funny, and deeply-affecting play about isolation and the importance of human connection both during and after the pandemic. So much more than a "pandemic play," the piece is a tour de force for actors and director.

    Proximity was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual Perlberg Festival of New Plays (formerly called the New Year/New Plays Festival) in January of 2024. A beautiful, funny, and deeply-affecting play about isolation and the importance of human connection both during and after the pandemic. So much more than a "pandemic play," the piece is a tour de force for actors and director.

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    Madness Most Discreet (then titled Past Midnight) was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2022. A poignant and enduring love story and a profoundly emotional exploration of fame, the stigma and stranglehold of mental illness, and their effect on a relationship now matter how strong the bonds.

    Madness Most Discreet (then titled Past Midnight) was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2022. A poignant and enduring love story and a profoundly emotional exploration of fame, the stigma and stranglehold of mental illness, and their effect on a relationship now matter how strong the bonds.

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    The Prey was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2021. A fascinating thriller based on true events in the Florida Everglades during the early 1900s. A host of great characters that will keep you on the edge of your seat as the mystery unfolds to it's shockingly satisfying conclusion.

    The Prey was one of five finalists that received readings during our annual New Year/New Plays Festival in January of 2021. A fascinating thriller based on true events in the Florida Everglades during the early 1900s. A host of great characters that will keep you on the edge of your seat as the mystery unfolds to it's shockingly satisfying conclusion.

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