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Interview with DON'T LOOK BLACK playwright Preston Crowder and director Alicia Haymer
Today in Nashville, WXMV News Channel 4
August 22, 2022
Critic's Pick - Don't Look Black - A Moral Story
by Amy Stumpfl, Nashville Scene
August 18, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Presents Don't Look Back by Preston Crowder This Summer
BroadwayWorld Nashville
July 31, 2022
by Evans Donnell, stage critic.com
July 18, 2022
Review: Impressively Original THAT WOMAN Presents Stunning Portraits of Women Involved With JFK
by Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville
June 19, 2022
Critic's Pick - That Woman - The Monologue and Dance Shows
by Erica Ciccarone, Nashville Scene
June 16, 2022
THAT WOMAN - THE MONOLOGUE SHOW Opens at Darkhorse Theater Tonight
by Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville
June 16, 2022
The Friday 5(+1) on Saturday: THAT WOMAN - THE DANCE SHOW
by Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville
June 18, 2022
Nashville Voyager
(Thea portrays Ellen Rometsch and choreographer of Tempest in That Woman - The Dance Show)
by Marissa Tomeo for Broadway World Nashville May 14, 2022
Tennessee: Tennessee Playwrights Studio
by Harrison Young, Dramatist - May/June 2022 Issue
Rising Stars: Meet Molly Breen
Nashville Voyager Magazine
March 2, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Directors for June and August Shows
The Tennessee Tribune
March 7, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Directors for June and August Shows
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
Mar. 2, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces 2022 Fellows And Associates
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
January 26, 2022
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces 2022 Season Of Theatre, Fundraising Initiative
by A.A. Cristi for Broadway World Nashville
May 3, 2021
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces Collaborations, Season of Premieres
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
April 29, 2021
Alumna Molly Breen Uses Education, Theatre Passions To Mentor Next Generation
by Haley Charlton for Belmont University News and Media
April 22, 2021
TPS, DTE and SistaStyle Productions Present TPS Talks
by A.A. Cristi for Broadway World Nashville
April 5, 2021
TPS and Angela Gimlin Present Virtual Workshop Reading of THAT WOMAN
by Steph Wild for Broadway World Nashville
February 16, 2021
Catch the Virtual Workshop Reading of THAT WOMAN
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
February 12, 2021
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
January 29, 2021
Check out Tennessee Playwrights Studio's Virtual Reading Festival
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
January 28, 2021
Winter Arts Guide 2021: Performing Arts
Arts companies mark milestones while adapting for the future
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
January 14, 2021
TPS Presents 2020 (Virtual) Reading Festival
by Stephi Wild for Broadway World Nashville
January 2, 2021
Alumnus presents 'Don't Look Black'
by Juanita I.C. Traughber, Communications Director, USN
December 30, 2020
Exciting news! Our inaugural production of the World Premiere of MAIDENS by Kenley Smith is included in the following First Night Top Ten of 2020 categories:
Outstanding Play
Outstanding Original Work (winner!)
Outstanding Leading Actress: in a Play: Molly Breen
Outstanding Leading Actress: in a Play: Megan Dianne DeWald
Outstanding Supporting Actor: in a Play: Andy Kanies
Outstanding Sound Design: William Kyle Odum
Thanks to Jef Ellis and our wonderful cast and crew, including those above and Preston Crowder, Tosha Marie Pendergrast, Becky Wahlstrom, Abby West, Daniel DeVault, Colleen Garatoni, Alexis LaVon, Nettie Kraft, Jake Stenson, Holly Shepherd Urbanowitz, Shay Puffett and Sawyer McCoy Wallace.
How Nashville Writers and Theater Artists Are Connecting Through New Works
by Amy Stumpfl for Nashville Scene
November 27, 2019
Fall Guide 2019: The Plays Are theThing
by Erica Ciccarone for Nashville Scene
September 26, 2019
Review: The Terrible Cost of Inhumanity in Searing 'Maidens'
by Evans Donnell for stagecritic.com
July 11, 2019
BWW Review: Kenley Smith's MAIDENS Heralds Auspicious Beginnings for Tennessee Playwrights Studio
by Jeffrey Ellis for Broadway World Nashville
July 7, 2019
by Erica Ciccarone for Nashville Scene
July 3, 2019
IDS 626: Kenley Smith talks MAIDENS at Tennessee Playwrights Studio
with John Mauldin for The Inexplicable Dumb Show
June 24, 2019
by Arabelle Pollick for The Dramatist
May 14, 2019
An interview with Kenley Smith -- Playwright
by Laura Pickard for In Process (MTSU)
February 5, 2019
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Introduces 2019 Fellows and Associates
by Jeffrey Ellis for Broadway World Nashville
January 22, 2019
Tennessee Playwrights Studio develops new works, fresh voices
by Amy Stumpfl for the Tennessean
July 8, 2018
Tennessee Playwrights Studio Announces 2018 Inaugural Season Fellows and Associates
by Jeffrey Ellis for Broadway World Nashville
February 2, 2018
- TPS supports the writing process by creating an environment for taking risks and reaching outside the box.
- TPS is definitely a community that recognizes the importance of the journey. Starting from scratch, writing a play, and then sharing pages every month highlighted the idea of journey for me. The freedom to follow your gut was supported and applauded.
- TPS encourages the artist in the room by providing a place to breathe and listen without pressure or judgment.
-- Gaye Jeffers, 2018 Fellow