new play development
Alleyway’s foremost audience served are playwrights. This season, our long-gestating Alleyworks series continues to grow, focusing on the development of new plays and the artists who create them.
This second year will highlight up to 7 local writers in various stages of their process. Showcase opportunities will happen throughout the year as the projects grow toward a culmination.
The program encourages playwrights, both local and national, with artistic and financial support as they create daring new theatre through collaborative and one-to-one partnerships.
Most readings, workshops, and productions will be open to the public.
education
Alleyway Education offers year-round professional training for adults and teens in playwriting and performance. As Alleyway teaching artists go outside the theatre walls to spend time in Erie County schools, on-site classes bring a community of emerging artists together in our performing arts complex.
Audience engagement connects our patrons to the playwrights whose work they see on the mainstage through group discussions and individual conversations.
In April 2022 and November 2023, we partnered with #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE, a national organization for student playwrights to create theatre about this necessary topic. 2024-25 will see Alleyway continue this partnership.
We will continue working with SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Fredonia, and Buffalo State students in experiential programs.