2025 Season Announcement

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The New Writing Development suite of programmes works directly with playwrights from beginner to early/mid-career phases to provide opportunities for exposure, writing-support, and professional development. Through these residencies and activities, we aim to advocate for the work of playwrights with the public and industry. The programmes create opportunities for playwrights to work closely with mid-career independent directors, dramaturgs, and other writers, as well as creating presentation opportunities to showcase their work.

Here's what's on in 2025:

2025 Season Calendar

Jan - May
'TOOLS' Playwriting Workshop Series
A workshop every last Saturday of the month for playwrights curious about theatricality
Feb - Jul
Centre 42 x Box of Tricks Pen Pals International
An international playwriting exchange matching 6 UK playwrights with 6 Singaporean playwrights
3 Mar - 30 Apr
Wild Rice Unsolicited Scripts Window 2025
An open call for scripts to discover new writers and potentially develop new plays

Wild Rice will be tapping into Centre 42’s diverse network of writers, dramaturgs, and directors to help form the team of readers receiving and reading the scripts. Find out more and submit your script at: https://www.wildrice.com.sg/script-submissions/.

16 Mar
'Rewrite My Fire’: Writer-in-Residence Jo Tan’s Closing Sharing
Jo ends her residency with a reading of her reworked script 'Happy Place' and a conversation
22 Mar
‘Playwrights in a Mad World’: Playwright’s Professional Development Residency Showcase
Our resident playwrights share their works in progress and new dramatic experiments
Apr - Mar 2026
Writer-in-Residence 25/26: Nabilah Said
Announcing our new Writer-in-Residence for 2025/2026, Nabilah Said
21 Apr
‘Dramaturgs & Playwrights’ Roundtable
An online roundtable conversation exploring the working relationship between dramaturgs and playwrights
Jun - Jul
New Scripts Garage Cycle #1 (English edition)
An open call for new scripts to receive dramaturgical support
Oct - Nov
New Scripts Garage Cycle #2 (English & Malay edition)
An open call for new scripts to receive dramaturgical support
21 - 22 Nov
'Mundur Singapura: The Second Wave of Queer Singaporean Theatre' WIP Showcase
A Vault presentation on the 90s and early noughties of queer plays