Since its inception in 2005, LAUNCH PAD has produced 19 preview productions by distinguished playwrights. 2025 marks the 20th anniversary.
Melancholy Play
by Sarah Ruhl
2006
Kingdom City
by Sheri Wilner
2010
Untitled IV
by Ruth Markofsky by Alison Tatlock
2014
Staging the Daffy Dame
by Anne García-Romero
2018
A Medusa Thread
by Candrice Jones
2022
The Dinosaur Within
by John Walch
2007
Biederman's Match by Beau Willimon (book), Michell DiBucci (music), Portia Kamons (lyrics)
2011
The Talented Ones
by Yussef El Guindi
2015
The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 - adapted from the novel by Cheryl L. West
2019
She Wolf: Margaret of Anjou
by Katie Bender
2023
Plumfield, Iraq
by Barbara Lebow
2008
Entangled
by Lila Rose Kaplan
2012
We Want the Funk, a rustbelt lullaby on the one! by Idris Goodwin
2016
What Martha Did
by Enid Graham
2020
Everybody's Favorite Mothers
by James Still
2024
La Niñera: The Nursemaid
by Barbara Lebow
2009
Appoggiatura
by James Still
2013
Bernhard
by Lynn Rosen
2017
Shanghai
by Linda Alper
2021
In addition to Preview Productions, LAUNCH PAD develops plays through the Summer Reading Series and the AMPLIFY Reading Series Festival. Each play receives a 20 hour workshop including a public reading.
Gun Play - Barbara Lebow
¡Soldadera! - Jami Brandli
The Velvet Weapon - Deborah Brevoort
“A” Train - Anne Torsiglieri
Too Much Water - KJ Sanchez, Jenny Mercein and Ensemble
April 4, 1968 - James Still
Staging the Daffy Dame - Anne García-Romero
Stand By - Christina McMahon
Bad Touch - Joyce Carol Oates
Through the Eye of the Needle - Jami Brandli
(A) New World - James Still
Meanwhile There are Letters - Declan Hughes
The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 - adapted from the novel by Cheryl L. West
The Survivors/Los Sobrevivientes - Katie Bender
The Myths We Made - Brian Otaño
Three Sisters Bronte - Arlene Hutton
What Martha Did - Enid Graham
Untitled Measurement Play - Mia Chung
Elocutia Does Pygmalion - Cheryl L. West
Once Upon A Family - Barbara Lebow
The Cratchits (in America) - James Still
American Fast - Kareem Fahmy
Exotic Deadly: or the MSG Play - Keiko Green
Lorena: A Tabloid Epic - Eliana Pipes
A Medusa Thread - Candrice Jones
A People’s Guide to History in the Time of Here and Now - Rehana Lew Mirza
Pilar and Paloma - Milta Ortiz
Fortunes - Dan Castellaneta and Deb Lacusta
Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night - Dale Griffiths Stamos
Happy Fall: a Queer Stunt Spectacular - Lisa Sanaye Dring
Acetone Wishes and Plexiglass Dreams - Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters
Memories of Overdevelopment - Caridad Svich
One Month Along - Franky Gonzales
What’s Best for the Children - Idris Goodwin
Plays About Longing - James Still
Wife of Headless Man Investigates Her Own Disappearance - Yussef El Guindi
Dalia is Dead and Her Dad Keeps Making Dumplings - Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters
Replaced - Eric Reyes Loo
Freedom Hill - Jacqueline E. Lawton
Power Trio - Melinda Lopez
Strange Birds - E. M. Lewis
Everybody’s Favorite Mothers - James Still