Where New Plays & Musicals Begin Their Professional Journey
CreateTheater® is a full-service development platform for playwrights, musical theater writers, and producers.
Whether you’re drafting your first scene or preparing for a New York showcase, we give you the artistic support, producing strategy, industry access, and professional community you need to bring your new work to life.
Writing | Development | Producing |Education | Industry Access | One Home
Upcoming Events
Saturday January 31st at 2:00pm ET
FREE VIRTUAL NETWORKING
Your 2026 Collaborators Are in This Room
The January Jumpstart Collaboration Event is where your next director, composer, producer, or design team is waiting!
Pitch yourself.
Meet your people.
Start building the projects you’ll launch in 2026 — together.
The CreateTheater Developmental Pipeline
A development pipeline shaped around your show—not a preset path.
Every project enters the pipeline at a different point. We assess where your play or musical is now—and guide it toward the people, programs, and strategy that will serve it best.
Why CreateTheater?
Because new plays and musicals deserve individual attention, CreateTheater’s Producer-Guided Pipeline offers personalized dramaturgy, strategic producing insight, and professional development that’s right for your show—guided by experienced Industry professionals who’ve made their career creating new plays and musicals.
- Writing Programs support the active development of scripts through structure, feedback, and collaboration.
- Production Programs test work publicly and professionally to prepare it for real producing conversations.
- Education Programs help you understand the business: how new plays and musicals are evaluated, produced, and positioned in the professional commercial and non-profit theater.
- Networking Opportunities allow you to expand your circle and serve to build relationships among other creative professionals in the industry.
What I am thinking about…
The #1 Question Writers Want Answered
Writers Write… After a play is written, the writer’s job is done, right? It’s a “collaborative” art, so all you have to do is to give it over to a theater and they’ll handle the rest. And … end dream sequence. Reality check: writers write a play or musical, and they...
Find a Mentor
THE WORKING PLAYWRIGHT: a monthly blog column by Melissa Bell Find a Mentor Sometime after I wrote my first musical, I attended an alumni event. While waiting for the elevator, a well-groomed woman and I picked up a conversation. When I asked her what she did, she...
The Working Playwright
(This is a new monthly column on CreateTheater.com - thank you, Melissa!) FIND THEE A WRITER’S GROUP When I speak with aspiring playwrights or writers of any genre, the first piece of advice I give is “join a writer’s group.” If you can’t find one, create one. A...
Where Are We Going?
How Are We Doing? I can’t believe we’re already approaching 2025, our quarter-century mark. That’s a significant milestone in history, with enough time under our belt now to collectively look at “how we’re doing” and where we’re going. The first 25 years of the...