Graphic design by Rebecca Pitt
Chamber
Winner: 2026 Papatango New Writing Prize
Honorable Mention: 2026 Relentless Award
Finalist: 2026 Lanford Wilson New American Plays Festival
Semi-Finalist: 2026 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
“Look, it’s probably Story A. But we can’t rule out the possibility that it’s Story B…”
The Easton High School Chamber Orchestra’s got to practice. ChamberFest is just three weeks out and Bambi’s still messing up the fermata.
Then something happens – or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it’s just a drill. Either way, this bunch of kids trapped in a soundproof room can only wait.
Cut off from the world, they imagine what’s out there with the savage wit – and chilling nonchalance – of a generation raised on TikTok and extremism.
Chamber invites you into a roomful of funny, frank teenagers facing a world which may or may not be about to explode.
Chosen from a record-breaking 1,913 entries, Chamber will receive its World Premiere in Park200 next year.
Longer Plays
JILLIAN VASHRO & SYDNEY ANDREWS IN UNDO AT ANNEX THEATRE, 2013 / PHOTO BY IAN JOHNSTON
Undo
Winner: 2013 Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play
"The premise is so simple and brilliant—what if a divorce were a public event precisely like your wedding, with guests and presents and an officiant and tons of booze?—that it threatens to overpower the show itself. But Arsenault’s sharp wit and ear for honest dialogue, which focuses on realistically mundane details and then telescopes to huge family drama, makes the concept work beautifully. Bring someone to talk it over with after; you’ll surely want to." - The Stranger Suggests
Full-length
7 women, 3 men, 1 child (non-speaking)
MI KANG, JOCELYN MAHER, AND NICK EDWARDS IN THE GREAT INCONVENIENCE AT ANNEX THEATRE, 2018 PHOTO BY IAN JOHNSTON
SOPHIE KELLY-HEDRICK AND EMILIE HANSON IN ZOOM WORKSHOP OF COURT, SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE, 2020
The Great Inconvenience
Nominee: 2019 Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play
2050. Somewhere on the West Coast of the United States. A scrappy group of historical re-enactors—orphans of our next civil war—have formed a chosen family. Abandoned by a government that no longer pretends to serve any but the rich, their survival gig is helping to whitewash some of the worst atrocities in American history for audiences of wealthy schoolchildren. When an unexpected visitor starts camping out in their dioramas, they’re forced to face their own histories, and contend with the revelation that the woman they all work for is much more than just their boss.
”Scary AF but also charming”
- Karen Hartman
Full-length
4 women, 1 man
Available for premiere
Court
Winner: Ivoryton Playhouse Women Playwrights Initiative 2020
Marle and Rosanna are not best friends. Actually, they barely know each other. But, over the course of one evening in Rosanna’s attic bedroom, they’ll forge a bond in the flame of Rosanna’s very big problem: going to court to testify in her own custody hearing. This is a story about two very ordinary, weird girls just dealing with how incredibly ordinary and weird it is to be thirteen.
One-act
Two 13-year-old girls
Available for premiere
IMAGE: Douglas Kirkland/CORBIS (not a production photo)
THE MANOR
Henley Rose Playwright Competition finalist, 2025
“The honesty and grace in this play is so lovely. What a wonderful look at aging, death, desire, and losing your mind.” - Kate Berry, Creede Repertory Theatre
Full-length
4 women, 2 men
Available for premiere
THE CUT
The Cut is a story about loving and dying that asks us to consider how far we would go to save the person we most cherish from suffering.
Full length
One woman, one trans man
Available for premiere
ADVENT
It’s Seattle. It’s winter. It’s raining. Christmas is 25 days away. Noor, a college professor working nights as a nativity scene security guard, develops a fascination with Lucy, a woman who visits the nativity scene a lot. Like a lot a lot. So much that his co-worker Eileen suspects that she is the one who will steal the baby Jesus, though she really doesn’t fit the profile.
Across the street, Noor’s wife Orli and her business partner Nell are trying to find a niche for their Jewish bakery amidst the holiday hullabaloo, an effort that is about to be complicated by the surprise arrival of Nell’s estranged father, Apollo (dressed as Santa, of course).
Meanwhile, Pastor Luke is facing down his first Christmas sermon under the weight of a huge secret he’s been hiding from his congregation (it’s not that he’s gay—they already know that) and hosting his little sister who has run away from home and, oh yeah, also believes she is the messiah.
Advent is a romantic dramedy for an ensemble cast that reminds us that, even in the darkest part of the year, even in the the most confounding moments in our lives, we are not alone.
Full-length
3 men, 5 women
Available for premiere