ORANGE COUNTY PLAYWRIGHTS ALLIANCE
ORANGE COUNTY PLAYWRIGHTS ALLIANCE
In the OC, we're the new play people.
We're the Orange County Playwrights Alliance (OCPA). We bring together nearly 30 professional, successful playwrights who write new works for the stage, informed by their diverse life experiences and inspired by their imaginations.
In 2025, we celebrated our 30th anniversary. We are playing our role in the future of American theatre - writing plays that speak to the here and now.
Johnna Adams' Gidion's Knot just wrapped up a short run (Feb. 20-28) at the National Theatre of Kosovo, dir. Hana Qena.
Eric Eberwein's Peace Be With You will be produced April 10-25 by Force of Nature Productions (North Hollywood), dir. Jahel Caldera.
Vita Muccia will appear in the Larking House Theatre Company's production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, running Apr. 16-25 in a co-production with The Wayward Artist (Irvine).
Lilian Nader's Pandora - The Musical is getting its second staged reading in OC; the Theatre Guild presents it March 19 @ 6:30pm in Laguna Woods. More info here.
Joni Ravenna's Tucked Away is a semifinalist for the 2026 SheNYCArts Summer Theater Festivals (SheNYC, SheATL, SheDFW, and SheLA).
Baylee Shlichtman's full-length drama Symbiotic will be presented in Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA's Winterfest26 at Atwater Village Theatre (Los Angeles) March 21 @ 3:00pm. More info here.
Nicholas Thurkettle will be at Requiem Coffee, Tea and Fantasy (Anaheim) March 8 at 12:00pm for a meet and greet with fans of the video game Zenless Zone Zero, for which he provided the voice of Von Lycaon.
Interested in joining us? Submit a script to us. We'll read it and consider you for membership.
Photos: Francis Gacad
Humans should write plays.
Chatbots shouldn't.
As long as people want to tell stories to each other in person, there will be theatre. Telling stories in the theatre is a fundamentally human act, with humans deciding how the story goes - not chatbots, not limited language models, not AI agents.
OCPA believes playwriting should be fundamentally human, because theatre is about a shared human experience. Therefore, we do not create or present AI-generated plays. AI-generated plays are built from examples of playwriting scraped from the internet without playwright consent or compensation. AI-generated plays are neuronormative and lacking in idiosyncrasy, subtext, and nuance. Above all, they lack the unique personal perspective that comes from the lived experience of a living, breathing playwright.