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Collider: A New Play Development Festival
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Collider is the Citadel’s New Play Development Festival that celebrates and helps bring to life new stories and scripts for larger stages showcasing a mix of local artists and artists from across the country and beyond. Check out the free play readings, mixers, and artist-led workshops (more workshops info coming soon)! Learn more and see full festival details at: citadeltheatre.com/artists/play-development/collider-festival
2025 Schedule
Friday, June 20, 2025
Reading – Cyrano De Bergerac
by Jessy Ardern, an adaptation of the play by Edmond Rostand
7 pm in the Zeidler Hall | Free
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Reading – Persuasion
by Katherine Koller, an adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen
2 pm in the Zeidler Hall | Free
Playwrights Mixer
6 - 7 pm
Zeidler Hall Lobby
Join us to meet and mingle with fellow playwrights, artists and theatre lovers who are passionate about new play development. This is also a chance to check out our Pop-Up Theatre Bookstore which carries plays by many local writers and many of the playwrights involved in Collider.
Reading – The Riverside Seniors Village Theatrical Society Presents: William Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet
by Collin Doyle
7 pm in the Zeidler Hall | Free
SUNDAY JUNE 21 2025
Reading – Runaways
by Mac Brock
Read by participants in the Citadel Young Company
2 pm in the Zeidler Hall | Free
Playwrights Mixer
6 - 7 pm
Zeidler Hall Lobby
Join us to meet and mingle with fellow playwrights, artists and theatre lovers who are passionate about new play development. This is also a chance to check out our Pop-Up Theatre Bookstore which carries plays by many local writers and many of the playwrights involved in Collider.
Reading – Nowhere With You: An East Coast Musical
by James Odin Wade, based on the music of Joel Plaskett
7 pm in the Zeidler Hall | Free