Vineyard Theatre

Each season, The Vineyard supports playwrights, composers, and directors through readings, workshops, and artistic residencies, tailoring our support to help realize each artist’s vision.

This spring, we’re inviting audiences into the heart of that process. Join us for four new works-in-progress readings by five exciting playwrights: Ro Reddick (2025-2026 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award recipient), Marissa Joyce Stamps, Jake Brasch (2024-2025 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award recipient) and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, and Carly Mensch.

Works in Progress 2026

Four gifted teenagers collaborate and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious girls’ music program in Berkeley. As their connections intensify, the world outside thrums with a steady undercurrent of disaster and emergency – and they must find new ways to improvise on stage and off.

Featuring a score with elements unique to each performance, this world-premiere play from acclaimed playwright-composer-actor and Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis (Bulrusher, Warriors concept album) is a sharp, hilarious, aching story about coming of age under pressure. What does it mean to make something beautiful when everything might fall apart?