Youngblood
Youngblood is Ensemble Studio Theatre’s collective of emerging professional playwrights under the age of 30.
Playwrights Unit
For the past 19 years, the EST Playwrights Unit has been meeting every Monday night, providing a safe and supportive haven for professional playwrights to read and critique their new plays.
EST/Sloan Project
The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project is an initiative designed to stimulate artists to create credible and compelling work exploring the worlds of science and technology and to challenge the existing stereotypes of scientists and engineers in the popular imagination.
Going to the River
Going to the River (GTTR) was founded in 1999 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre by the late Curt Dempster and Elizabeth Van Dyke.
Marathon of One-Act Plays
EST’s flagship festival of new one-act plays, the Marathon has played annually at EST for over 30 years.
RoughCut Productions
Designed to add a step in the new play development process between a staged reading and a full production, EST’s “RoughCut Productions” are fully-rehearsed, minimally-produced performances of new plays written by and featuring EST member artists.
