ABSTRACT
Playwrights should believe their plays are ready for an audience before submitting them for a public Reading. Lauren Yee, Playwright Readings move something out of one's head and make it external. Hearing one's play out loud involves more than whether then dialogue sounds right, the actors are tripping over lines, or the jokes land one can also access the subtext layer. Don Nguyen, PlaywrightPublic readings provide motivation. The author learn, if he should keep going. He had a reading of one of my plays once a play I was unsure of, with a twist at the end. At the reading, the audience gasped and he knew he had a play. Jason Cannon, Associate Artist, Florida Studio TheatreTOSOS began in 2002 with a series of staged readings at the LGBTQ Center in New York City, and readings in various forms continue to be an essential part of our mission and our season programming.
