Ann Arbor Civic Theatre is thrilled to announce an Intensive PAD Lab (Playwright–Actor–Director Lab), a four-week collaborative workshop designed for theatre artists eager to create new work from the ground up.

If you’re excited by new play development, collaboration, and the thrill of making theatre from scratch, the PAD Lab invites you to create boldly—and together.

This Devised Theatre experience brings together playwrights, actors, and directors into small ensembles that will develop, rehearse, and perform an original short one-act play—created entirely within the lab. By the end of the four weeks, each group will have developed a fully realized short one-act play for performance.

The lab will culminate in a showcase where the one-act plays will be performed for an audience of friends and family.

Class size is limited to 16 students to ensure an intimate, hands-on experience.

Time: Saturdays, March 14, 21, 28 and April 4 from 1 – 5 pm at the Ann Arbor Civic Studio, 322 W. Ann Street, Ann Arbor, 48104

Cost: $160 for A2CT Members, and $200 for non-members.

The free showcase will be April 10 at 7 p.m.