Ayad AkhtarPlaywright | Mallery AvidonPlaywright | Samantha ChansePlaywright |
Fernanda CoppelPlaywright | Pia WilsonPlaywright | Julianne Wick DavisComposer |
Nikos TsakalakosComposer | Mame HuntDramaturg |
This unique residency program offers playwrights and theatre composers—both emerging and established artists—peer mentorship, professional growth, and a chance to explore unpressured creativity at an idyllic working ranch in northeastern Wyoming. The Playwrights Retreat, supported by the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, is made possible through the generosity of The Ucross Foundation. The Sundance Institute Playwright's Retreat at Ucross, Wyoming is an eighteen-day writing colony where five playwrights and a composer convene each year to put pen to paper, and where a Sundance Institute dramaturg can respond to work at an early stage of the creative process. Like the other two Labs, the Ucross Retreat includes both emerging and established artists, creating an environment of peer mentorship, professional growth and unfettered, unpressured creativity.
Ayad AkhtarPlaywright | Mallery AvidonPlaywright | Samantha ChansePlaywright |
Fernanda CoppelPlaywright | Pia WilsonPlaywright | Julianne Wick DavisComposer |
Nikos TsakalakosComposer | Mame HuntDramaturg |