Northampton Playwrights Lab
The Northampton Playwrights Lab, founded by Meryl Cohn, is a developmental workshop and creative laboratory for professional playwrights that has been meeting in Northampton, Massachusetts for twenty years. We are celebrating our anniversary this April with the 2026 Play by Play Festival, featuring readings of brand new works by member playwrights. The plays that will be brought to life through the voices of around 25 local actors are all different in style and will in turn transport us to: a purgatorial state on the streets of Manhattan, a collaborative storytelling workshop, the backstage of a beauty pageant, a small desert town in southwestern Colorado, a park in the afterlife, and a family home for the holidays.