What is the Playwrights’ GYM?
The Playwrights’ GYM is Dobama Theatre's professional playwriting unit. Members of the Playwrights’ GYM meet monthly throughout the season to share new pages and offer helpful feedback on new works early in their development. Dobama Theatre also provides GYM members with resources that may include rehearsal space, full-length readings that are open to the public, social media marketing, and our annual GYM Shorts event. The goal of the Playwrights’ GYM is to nurture new work in a safe environment and provide some of the “exercise” equipment needed to develop new plays by these Cleveland-area writers.
How to join
The Playwrights' GYM will open submissions for new members on November 15, 2024. Prospective members are asked to submit the following:
· A short bio and/or resume
· Two to five pages of an original play
Submitting playwrights must reside in Northeast Ohio. Please send submission materials to playwrights.gym@dobama.org.
Submissions are due by December 31, 2024.
Submissions will be reviewed by the current members of the Playwrights’ GYM during the months of January and February. Based on this review, a select group of prospective members will be invited to the Playwrights’ GYM meeting on March 18, 2025, after which prospective members may receive an invitation to join the Playwrights’ GYM.
the GYM playwrights
UPCOMING PLAYWRIGHTS’ GYM EVENTS
GYM Shorts
presented by the Playwrights' GYM at Dobama Theatre
in partnership with Market Garden Brewery
7:00 pm on Monday, February 3rd, 2025
at the Market Garden Brewery Store
1849 West 24th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
With new short works by GYM playwrights.
Pay What You Can
approximately 75 minutes
Content warning: Adult language and themes
A Reading of a new full-length work by Greg Vovos
7:00 pm on Monday, March 24th, 2025
at Dobama Theatre: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Pay What You Can
Content warning: Adult language and themes
A Reading of a new full-length work by Rachel Zake
7:00 pm on Monday, April 28th, 2025
at Dobama Theatre: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Pay What You Can
Content warning: Adult language and themes