Homegrown

Gainesville Homegrown Local Playwrights’ Showcase

Homegrown 2023-24: Homegrown @ Home!

Homegrown has gone virtual with Homegrown @ Home! Tune in to our free online event to see and hear works by our newest local playwrights! By holding this event in Zoom, we able to bring you into the new play development process. See actors read a new script. Participate in a talkback with actors, director, … Read more

Homegrown 2022: Homegrown @ Home!

Homegrown has gone virtual with Homegrown @ Home! Tune in to our free online event to see and hear works by our newest local playwrights! By holding this event in Zoom, we able to bring you into the new play development process. See actors read a new script. Participate in a talkback with actors, director, … Read more

2018 Gainesville Homegrown Local Playwrights’ Showcase

December 4-9, 2018; various times Our 2018-2019 Season marks the sixth anniversary of this not-to-be-missed event! It’s your  opportunity to see staged readings of local authors’ plays here– first– before they hit the big time! Best of all, it’s just $15 to see all 14 performances over six days, and get a nifty laminated keepsake ticket (or, you could … Read more

Submit to the Junior Night of Our Local Playwrights’ Showcase

Do you live in our near Gainesville, Florida? Are you age 18 or under? Have you written a short play (twenty minutes or less)? If you answered “yes” to all three, you’re in the right place! (If you’re over 18 and would like to submit to our festival, please go to this page, instead!) Please … Read more

2017 Gainesville Homegrown Local Playwrights’ Showcase

December 7-17, 2017; various times Our 2017-2018 Season marks the fifth anniversary of this not-to-be-missed event! For audiences, it’s the opportunity to see staged readings of local authors’ plays here– first– before they hit the big time! For local playwrights, it’s the opportunity to see how your play works with real actors and real audiences so that you can … Read more

2016 Gainesville Homegrown Local Playwrights’ Showcase

December 8-11, 2016; various times Our 2016-2017 Season marks the fourth anniversary of this not-to-be-missed event! For audiences, it’s the opportunity to see staged readings of local authors’ plays here– first– before they hit the big time! For local playwrights, it’s the opportunity to see how your play works with real actors and real audiences so that you can … Read more

Submit a Play to our Local Playwrights’ Showcase

Are you a playwright living in or around Gainesville, FL? GREAT! We’d like to know you better! The Homegrown Local Playwright’s Showcase is the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre’s chance tohighlight work done by playwrights in the North Central Florida region. Inclusion in the Homegrown Local Playwright’s Showcase does not guarantee that plays will receive full productions … Read more

2015 Gainesville Homegrown Local Playwrights’ Showcase

December 3-6, 2015; various times Our 2015-2016 Season will mark the third anniversary of this not-to-be-missed event! For audiences, it’s the opportunity to see staged readings of local authors’ plays here– first– before they hit the big time! For local playwrights, it’s the opportunity to see how your play works with real actors and real audiences so that you … Read more