Part of MADE IN ATLANTA, the UNEXPECTED PLAY FESTIVAL is a series of readings of brand-new plays by Atlanta playwrights in partnership with Working Title Playwrights. It brings together the best talent in ATL to share fresh and topical stories with you. Plus, you the audience gets involved as every reading will be followed by a facilitated discussion led by Amber Bradshaw from Working Title Playwrights to give the writers immediate feedback for their next draft.
2024 Festival
Stay tuned for information on the upcoming 2024 Unexpected Play Festival.
Past Festivals
2023
Momma by Quinn Xavier Hernandez
Salvage by Mary Lynn Owen
We Are All Waves On The Same Ocean by Daryl Lisa Fazio
2022
A Complicated Hope by John Mabey
A Most American Town by Lee Osorio
WEB by Sharon Mathis
The Bullet by Keena Redding
2021
Well-Intentioned White People by Imani Vaughn-Jones
Memorial Day by Paul Donnelly
Raising the Dead by Erin K Considine
Pearl by Sonhara Eastman
2020
We the Village by Dana Stringer
Jamie’s Visit by Jean Hedgecock
Branches Etched Across the Sky by Addae Moon
Lady Parts by Mary Lynn Owen
2019
If I Forget by Steven Levenson
Gershwin’s America by Alip Hong & Adam Koplan
Bellwether by Steve Yockey