WP Theater has announced the group of 15 artists selected for its 2024-2026 WP Lab. The two-year residency provides emerging artists with professional and developmental resources, and culminates in the biennial WP Pipeline Festival. 

The selected artists include playwrights Mukta Phatak, Jordan Ramirez-Puckett, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, Amy Staats, and Danielle Stagger; directors Kayla Amani, Britt Berke, Susanna Jaramillo, Alex Keegan, and Mikhaela Mahony; and producers Penzi Hill, Roshni Lavelle, Skye Pagon, Lianna Rada-Hung, Maia Safani. 

Participants will be provided with a  professional network, entrepreneurial and leadership training, rehearsal space, and opportunities for the development and production of new work for the stage. The WP Pipeline Festival will feature five new plays from WP Lab artists, which will be presented in various stages of development.

The WP Playwrights Lab is led by Lab Alum and WP BOLD Associate Artistic Director Kristin Leahey and WP Tow Playwright in Residence Francisca Da Silveira; the Directors Lab is led by Katherine Wilkinson (Bloom Bloom Pow); and the Producers Lab is facilitated by WP Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and Lab Alum and former WP BOLD Associate Artistic Director Ayana Parker Morrison.

Now in its 47th season, WP Theater is dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage in their careers, including cis women, trans, non-binary, or gender-nonconforming people and all gender identities which have been systematically oppressed throughout history in the theatre and beyond.

Visit WPTheater.org for more information.