Pittsburgh Playwright's Theater

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company was founded by Mark Clayton Southers in 2003. In 2020, we're moving again, to a new space at 819 Penn Avenue. Thanks to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for finding this exciting new space for us!

Our Mission: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company is committed to developing and showcasing the works of local playwrights; from accomplished masters like August Wilson and George S. Kaufman to promising new talents.We seek to nurture a racially and culturally diverse community of playwrights, directors, actors and technical specialists to hone their craft and to network creative opportunities.

For 17 years Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company has trained people on and behind the stage. Artists sought us out to help them start their careers because they saw people like themselves here. We knew our method of giving individual attention while expecting accountability fostered growth, but we were always too busy to establish a formal training program, until now.

You can also support us via Amazon Smile, where Amazon donates 0.5% of all purchases you make on their special Amazon Smile website to a nonprofit you designate. Members of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company's Donor's Circle have pledged annual gifts of at least $1000 for three years or more, to support PPTCO's operations and growth.

Members of the Donor's Circle pledge to donate $1000 or more each year for a term of three years, in support of PPTCO's operations and growth. Patrons who join our Donor's Circle will be invited to several private events per season, including our season announcement gathering and cast gatherings, as well as receive prime seating for our August Wilson productions.

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company has produced works by many playwrights from the greater Pittsburgh area. In the following lists of PPTCO productions of each playwright's work, "B&W" refers to a one-act play produced as part of PPTCO's Festival in Black & White. Andrew Ade is a 2012-2013 Heinz Endowments Fellow (playwriting) and sole playwriting recipient of the 2009 Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Grant.