The Public Theater will host a series of readings spotlighting works written by members of its 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group, featuring those by Karina Billini, Tommy Endter, Jesse Jae Hoon, Humaira Iqbal, Celeste Jennings, Nina Ki, Gloria Oladipo, Valen-Marie Santos, Amita Sharma, and Al Sierra.

The staged readings, which are free and open to the public, will perform April 21-May 20.

“The 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group, and the plays presented in this year’s EWG Spotlight Series, represent a proud moment in pursuit of The Public’s mission,” says Public Associate Director of New Work Development Jack Phillips Moore in a statement. “These 10 astonishing writers have written epics that span the globe and the vastness of human identity, modern myths that speak enormous truths, and stories of hope, love, and doom. This cohort’s members, through two years of fellowship and bold work, are dazzlingly varied in form and subject, but unite to affirm that the future of theatre is bright and breathtaking.”

The group helps support and develop works for early career playwrights and other generative artists, and has led to full Public Theater productions like Ryan J. Haddad's Dark Disabled Stories, Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta, Mona Mansour's The Vagrant Trilogy and Urge for Going, Patricia Ione Lloyd's Eve's Song and Pretty Hunger, MJ Kaufman's Masculinity Max, and Ethan Lipton's The Outer Space and No Place to Go. The Off-Broadway company's upcoming season also includes works from Group alums Else Went, Initiative; and Lipton, The Seat of Our Pants.

A full schedule of readings is at PublicTheater.org.