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

Critics' Pick: MAIDENS

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

National Reports -- Tennessee

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

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