Our Mission

Bespoke Plays creates international opportunities for writers with diverse stories and worldviews, by developing new plays in Los Angeles, New York, and London, through a process customized to the goals of the writer and readiness of the play.

Rachel Hip-Flores and VonDexter Montegut II in CREATION by J. Holtham. Directed by Christine Boylan. Photo by Ned Thorne.

What is a staged reading?

A staged reading is a performance of a new play that gets as close as it can to the feel of a production with 25 hours or less of rehearsal and the actors keeping their scripts in their hands. Not having to memorize lines frees up the actors to focus on their characters and the writer to make changes to the script during the rehearsal process once they start to hear it out loud. All you NEED for a staged reading is actors and scripts, but we're a bit extra, so we like to throw in a bit of blocking, lights, sound, or costumes when we can.

Kari Coleman, Isa Briones, Mary Chieffo and Madi Goff in LADY FACE by Madi Goff. Directed by Ellie Pyle. Photo by Ellie Pyle

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