Playwright Open Mic: A Night of Community & Creativity
Open Mic for Playwrights
November 13, 2025
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Welcome to this special Open Mic Night for Playwrights where writers bring the writing, and the audience does the reading! We encourage dramatic writers of all experience levels to share their work in this low-pressure, welcoming, and exciting evening of scene readings.
How does it work?
- Playwrights bring scenes up to 5 pages with 2 – 3 characters.
- Anyone who attends may put their name in the “hat” to be drawn to read a role.
- Signup is on a first-come basis and begins at check-in.
- There are two sets of readings with 8 playwrights per set for a total of 16 scenes.
- There is a brief intermission, approximately 15 minutes, between the two groupings of readers.
- Playwrights will introduce their scenes and read their own stage directions.
- We’ll draw names from the “hat” to read the roles.
- After each scene, there will be a raucous applause for both playwrights and readers.
But don’t worry, you don’t have to read! Guests and audience members are encouraged to sit back and enjoy the show.
Wanna attend?
Doors open an hour before showtime (7:00 pm show, doors open at 6:00 pm).
Sign-up for scenes is on a first-come basis and begins at check-in.
Audience may put their name in the “hat” to read when they check-in.
The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.Miriam Tobin
Miriam BC Tobin (she|her) is a Seattle-based playwright, theatre artist, and writing instructor. She has performed on stages across the US and Europe and has taught drama to youth in Seattle, NYC, Denver, and on a farm in the Czech Republic. She founded MBCT; Modern But Classical Theatre in NYC to de- and re-construct classic plays into highly physical adaptations. Her play The War of Women received a roundtable reading at The Lark and several of her plays premiered at Goddard College’s Ten-Minute Play festival. Honors & awards include a Hedgebrook residency, PEN Writing Scholarship, Newington-Cropsey Fellowship, the London Dramatic Academy Fellowship, and she was a Pipeline Theatre PlayLab semi-finalist. Miriam was the fall 2020 Editor-in-Chief of The Pitkin Review and is currently a dramatic writing editor with The Clockhouse. Her work appears in multiple issues of The Pitkin and Smith & Kraus. Miriam also runs SCRiB LAB, a writing organization aimed at creating community through experimentation.
Describe your teaching style.
I'm all about interaction, collaboration, and discussion. My teaching style is very open, and I welcome all ideas and questions in the classroom. Each class is a mixture of different learning styles, including presented lessons, reading and writing exercises, and open discussions.
