WHAT WE DO
ScriptWorks is playwright development and service organization that was founded to:
- Create a home for dramatic writers that stimulates imagination
- Develop new dramatic works to their fullest potential and feed them into the local and national markets
- Produce and encourage the production of new work that lends dignity to the playwright’s vision
- Network and enhance the visibility of the diverse community of playwrights in the Central Texas area
LATEST NEWS
MARCH 2025 SALON
STARS OVER SMITHVILLE by Marla Porter
Sunday, March 23* at 6:30pm
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St.
STARS OVER SMITHVILLE depicts a young working class couple’s division over paying for their child’s dog’s expensive monthly medicine. It is a play about all forms of love and how certain circumstances bring our hidden sides to the surface.
Marla Porter is an Austin, Texas, editor by day and playwright by night. She is a proud member of ScriptWorks, the Dramatists Guild, and the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays have been performed in Austin, Houston, and Baytown, Texas; San Diego, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Gulf Port, Florida; and Willoughby, Ohio. She has a Summer 2025 evening of her one acts to be performed by the new theatre company The Collective in San Miguel de Allende.
*Due to difficulty finding appropriate space, this month’s Salon has been moved up one week from our usual, last-Sunday-of-the-month date.