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…
New Play Development Goes Online
Our New Online Reading Series is a Success I launched CreateTheater.com a few years ago, dedicating it to the playwright and all aspects of new play/musical development. I always intended it to be a 100% online theater community. It’s now developing as a...
Something Bigger
"Something's coming, I don't know what it is, but it is gonna be great!" - Tony, West Side Story It's Coming! It's a new decade. 2020. We find ourselves here, in the present moment. For me, and perhaps for many of us, it looks different from what we expected....
The Place for Festivals in NPD
Should I Submit to a Festival? I’m coaching with a client this week, and we’re discussing the importance of submitting your work on a regular basis to theaters, festivals and other opportunities that are found on places such as playsubmissionshelper.com, the...
Do I Need a Star?
The Need for Stars? “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin Writing a play and then staying the course to see it produced is a daunting task. It requires tremendous focus and 100% dedication to each step in the developmental process. Once...