THE OVEN is 3P’s flagship program: an 8-week program culminating in a mid-summer staged reading festival, emphasizing community, collaboration, and whisk-taking in a supportive, judgement-free environment!

We invite up to five early-career playwrights to create new short plays in our weekly test-kitchen workshops, with an emphasis on camaraderie, creativity, and collaboration. This will be an opportunity to cast off the notion that writing is something to be done in isolation – during meetings, we encourage discussing craft, process, and the industry at large in addition to presenting our pages. 

This season, we’re teaming up with our friends at The Elif Collective and inviting five directors and eight actors to join in on the fun. Not only will they direct and perform in the playwrights’ pieces – the Actor and Director cohorts will also participate in their own Whisk Workshop sessions. Much like the Playwrights who meet to share their work in a safe environment, these Whisk-shops create a safe space for directors and actors to share their artistic processes. Directors will pair off to test out each other’s directing practices on the same scene; actors will voice candid feedback on how each director’s style resonates with them; and all have the chance to explore, without risk, what constitutes their ideal collaborative practice.