Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a major Pulitzer Prize -winning Off-Broadway theater company devoted to writers that discovers, develops and produces the new work of American playwrights, and musical theater artists. Playwrights Horizons is the only New York not-for-profit theater of its size and stature that produces new plays and musicals exclusively by American writers. Founded in 1971, the company has helped to launch the careers of hundreds of writers, served thousands of theater artists and audiences, made a significant contribution to the American theater repertory, and established a nationwide reputation as a leading advocate for new plays and musicals. Principal annual activities include the production of six new works on two stages; a literary department that reads and responds to over 1,000 unsolicited manuscripts, conducts readings, workshops and offers commissions; an undergraduate theater school in conjunction with NYU, a theatrical internship for aspiring artists and arts managers, and Ticket Central, a box office that serves the not-for-profit New York City arts community with low-cost ticketing services.