The Front Range
Playwrights Showcase

The Front Range Playwrights Showcase is Coal Creek Theater of Louisville's annual new works program for Colorado playwrights. Since 2007, we've given local writers a stage, a live audience, and honest feedback from working theater professionals. We develop new work from first reading to full production, building plays alongside the people who write them. This is where original Colorado stories take shape, and –

Where local theater grows stronger

How it Works

The Showcase unfolds in two parts.

First, playwrights workshop new one-acts in public readings, getting live audience response and honest feedback from industry professionals. Then, they take that feedback and spend the next year developing their work—and return with a fully-produced play in An Evening of Colorado-Grown One-Acts.

Playwrights walk away with professional feedback, real audience connection, networking within Colorado's theater community, and an opportunity to see their work fully staged.

Submit Your Play

The View from Your Seat

  • Michelin Star (2018)

    by Oliver Gerlund
    directed by Dan Schock

  • Serving *the* Story (2024)

    by Scott Gibson
    Directed by Ian Gerber

  • Earworms (2024)

    by Brad S. Rutledge
    Directed by Brett Nickerson

  • Remembrance *in* Blue (2022)

    by Louis Irwin
    Directed by Brett Nickerson

  • *The* Bench (2018)

    by Nabih Saliba
    Directed by Kirsten Jorgensen Smith

  • Irregular Opening (2018)

    by Colette Mazunik
    Directed by Larisa Netterlund

  • Devotional Blackmail (2022)

    by Scott Gibson
    Directed by Rob Mess

  • *A* Keening *for* Finnegan McPhee (2022)

    by Merriman Wilde
    Directed by Kirsten Jorgensen Smith

Past Showcases–2007-Present

The Wins Along the Way

  • 3rd Place Show

    2010
    Assisted Living

  • National Finalist

    2009
    The Organist’s Daughter

  • 1st Place Show

    2009
    The Organist’s Daughter

  • 2nd Place Show

    2015
    Dating Disconnect

  • 3rd Place Show

    2010
    Assisted Living

  • Excellence *in* Theater – New Playwright

    2015
    Karen Goodwin, Dating Disconnect

  • Excellence *in* Theater – Directing

    2009
    Lynn Fleming, The Organist’s Daughter

  • Best Costumes

    2015
    Kathy Rausch, Dating Disconnect

  • Best Techtinabulation

    2015
    Dan Schock, Dating Disconnect

  • Excellence *in* Theater – Set Design

    2015
    Dating Disconnect

  • Excellence *in* Theater – Acting

    2009
    Cast of The Organist’s Daughter

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