Playwrights Panel 
The momentum08 writers expose the inside scoop on navigating a career in theatre, musical, TV, and film writing.

Charles Morris Building

Writing Workshop: Musicals 101, Hamburg Studio

A workshop on musical theatre writing by the composer and lyricist team of Brendan Milburn & Valerie Vigoda. No experience necessary.

Long Story Short
by Brendan Milburn & Valerie Vigoda | directed by Tracy Brigden
Based on the play An Infinite Ache by David Schulner
A hip contemporary score is the soundtrack to a couple’s musical romance from an inauspicious first date through the unforeseeable ups and downs of a lifelong relationship.
See the reading now and the fully staged world premiere production on City Theatre’s Mainstage in October 2008.

Speak American
written and directed by Eric Simonson
In 1904 Pittsburgh, immigrant steelworkers struggle to learn the language and ways of a new home and country, while their young English teacher learns a lesson of her own in the dehumanizing tactics of Big Steel.
See the reading now and the fully staged world premiere production on City Theatre’s Mainstage in May 2009.

Him
by Daisy Foote | directed by Stuart Carden
Tensions mount in the modern conflict of nature vs human nature when three siblings inherit their distant father’s sanctuary, his own secret wilderness reserve.

When January Feels Like Summer
by Cori Thomas | directed by Billy Porter
Global warming heats up the new year for two homeboys, a garbage man, an Indian shopkeeper and her transgendered brother surprised by unexpected love connections.