WELCOME to our accountability group for playwrights and screenwriters! Our groups are designed to support artists through weekly reads, immediate feedback, networking and resource sharing. In addition to our weekly meetings, our groups find time to celebrate their hard work through Pithy Parties; an informal reading series of works in progress bringing writers together with actors, directors and audience to further develop their work.

How to Get Involved

SUMMER 2018
July 2 - August 6 
Drop In Mondays
$15 per Drop In session
RSVP Required
​ Contact artisticdirector@playfulsubstance.com for details

PRIVATE SESSIONS AVAILABLE and

Online Groups Coming Late 2018

Want to Know if Pithy is Right for YOU?

"I had written a treatment for a screenplay back in 2015 in a thwarted attempt to go to film school and left it moldering in a desk drawer (or at least on a hard drive). When Bree began the Playful Substance group in October of 2017, I immediately signed on as a beta tester an began writing that screenplay in earnest. When it came time to re-up, I happily became a paying participant from the second session on. The result? I'm almost done with my first screenplay and have written a treatment for a second. When my first act was complete, Bree helped to arrange for a staged reading, and the support I have had these past few months has pushed me through writer's blocks, competing deadlines and all the stuff that life throws at you (I have a FT job and I'm a single mom). I 100% know I never would have gotten here without Bree, Playful Substance, and the curated group of writers that are more than colleagues: they are all now dear friends."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            -Astrid Cook

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