Readings are FREE to the Public and NO are Reservations are required.

 We celebrate and champion playwrights!

Proudly collaborating with some of the finest writers, actors and directors in Los Angeles (and beyond),
Circle X Theatre Co. has championed myriad new works for the stage. We strive to produce work
where imagination comes first. Since our inception, our goal to serve playwrights and the development
of their work has been paramount to us. Our Writer’s Group was established in 2009. We are proud that fourteen mainstage productions have come out of either a reading, workshop, our Writer’s Group or having supported the development of it from the ground up. We love the process of developing new work.

We create a safe place where writers can motivate each other and feel this is their a creative home.
The following are just some of the playwrights we love and think of as our family.

Circle X Theatre Co. Writers Group and Workshopped Writers:
Lee Blessing*, Peter Buchman, Sheila Callaghan*, Larry Clarke*, Lisa Sanaye Dring*, James Duff*,
Fielding Edlow*, Jeff Goode*, Brian Groh*, Jason Grote, Cory Hinkle, Leo Geter*, Tom Jacobson*, Nick
Jones*, Elizabeth Klaviter, Bill Lawrence*, Jim Leonard*, Ted Mann, Melanie Marnich*, Tim Mason*,
Paul Mullin*, Dan O’Brien, Mike O’Malley*, Lina Patel, Tom Schulman, Casey Smith*, Octavio Solis*,
Meredith Stiehm*, Scot Zeller
*playwrights produced on the mainstage

There are readings and workshops that happen throughout the year in addition to our annual
reading series, presented free to the public thanks to the generous support of the Department of
Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los
Angeles County Arts Commission.

Annual Play Reading Series History:

2019
Plano by Will Arbery
Tiny Houses by Chelsea Marcantel
The Wicked One by Lisa Sanaye Dring
Homos, Or Everyone in America by Jordan Seavey

2017
Ready Steady Yeti Go by David Jacobi
Verite by Nick Jones
Minneapolis/St. Paul by Lee Blessing

2016
I Call My Brothers by Jonas Hussen Khemiri
You Are Here by Steven Totland
The Tenth Muse by Tanya Saracho
Feathers And Teeth by Charise Castro Smith
Little Children Dream of God by Jeff Augustin
Further From The Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris

2014
She Rode Horses Like The Stock Exchange by Amelia Roper
The Fairy Tale Lives of Russian Girls by Meg Miroshnik
The Glass Man by Amanda Jane Shank
16 Words or Less by Peggy Stafford
Sustainable Living by Jennifer Haley
Adult by Christina Masciotti

2014 Writer’s Group Reading Series
Black Rose by Meredith Stiehm
Second Slip by Bill Lawrence
A Cappella by Tim Mason
For The Loyal by Lee Blessing
ICU by Fielding Edlow (Produced)
Untitled By Lina Patel

2011 (co-produced with Bootleg Theater)
Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams
The Small by Anne Washburn
Trevor by Nick Jones (Produced)
Our Lot by Kristin Newbom and W David Hancock

2010 (co-produced with Bootleg Theater)
Monster Yellow Couch by Sam Marks
Telethon by Kristin Newbom
Bruise Easy by Dan LeFranc
Maria/Stuart by Jason Grote

2009
The Cataract by Lisa Damour
Heart In Your Chest by Kristen Palmer
Alabaster by Jeff Goode
Sixty Miles to Silverlake by Dan LeFranc
The Creature by Heidi Schreck
Punkplay by Gregory S Moss (Produced)

2008
Fubar by Karl Gajdusek
Scarcity by Lucy Thurber
Hello Failure by Kristen Kosmas
What Once We Felt by Ann Marie Healy
The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder by Moby Pomerance (Produced)
The Internationalist by Anne Washburn

2007
Courting Vampires by Laura Schellhardt (Produced by Boston Court)
A Brief Narrative Of An Extraordinary Birth Of Rabbits by C. Denby Swanson
Love Loves a Pornographer by Jeff Goode (Produced)
The Beloved Disciple by Tom Jacobson
Air Conditioning by Tommy Smith
Moloch and Other Demons by Jason Grote

2006
Faust Us by Joseph Fisher
800 Words: The Transmigration of Phillip K Dick by Victoria Stewart
707 Pine by Deron Bos
Bigger Man by Sam Marks (Produced)
The Death Of A Cat by C. Denby Swanson
Capsized Flotsam by Donaco Smyth