The 24 Hour Plays Nationals
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Join Our LA Nationals Cohort at
THE BROADWATER MAINSTAGE
Friday, August 28, 2026
1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038
The next generation of artists come together to create, rehearse and perform brand new plays in just 24 hours.
Nationals LA 2026 Company
The 24 Hour Plays Nationals 2026 Los Angeles company includes actors Anahita Monfared, Anastasia Goddard, Anisha Cheema, Ella Webb, Hallie Snowday, Hazel Eko, Khafira Freeman, Mads Daily, Mae Montgomery, Mae Roth, Mia Cusianovic, Nate B Smith, Rafael Bryant, Sophie Liu David, Theo Gyra, and Valentina Navarro-Marsili; directors Cooper Layne Ellis, Lila Marooney, Molly Marsh, and Riley Glick; playwrights Ananda Long, Madi Fabber, Molly Kate Babos, and Rebs Chan; and producers Oscar K. and Soumya Tadepalli.
The Los Angeles production will take place on August 28 at The Broadwater Mainstage. Tickets will be available soon.
Nationals NY 2026 Company
The 24 Hour Plays Nationals 2026 New York company includes actors Abigail Garcia, Anye Young, Connor Riordan, Declan Collins, Elena Falkow, Emma McDonough, Hadley Scott, Jeff Parkinson, Jordan Hurley, Kelsey Collins, Lee Baladejo, Sahar Lev-Shomer, Sam Besca, Serena Phillip, Shaakirah Nazim-Harris, and Sophia Feldman; directors Jay Monteleone, Matthew B. Cullen, Michèle Carter Cram, and Wasif Sami; playwrights Cori Diaz, Katie Parkinson, Michael Ronca, Penelope Gould; composer Sam Melton; producers Isabelle Chirls and Katie Brown; stage managers Eva Lee, Lottie Stallings, Rey Hankinson, and Tess Feldman; and designers Ian Rios-Vasquez, Ivy Walker, Quinn McCardle, and Seo Won Yun.
The New York production took place on June 29 NY at The Lynn F. Angelson Theater. Check out photos from the show below.
About The Program
Each year, The 24 Hour Plays Nationals bring together extraordinary early-career theater artists in New York and Los Angeles for a free professional intensive that culminates in the cohort’s own production of The 24 Hour Plays. The Nationals program includes workshops, master classes, career development and lively panel discussions with prominent industry guests, arming the next generation with what they truly need to succeed in this business — each other.
Since 2007, over 600 early-career actors, directors, playwrights, producers, composers, designers and stage managers have gathered to make work and build community. Nationals alumni work across the entertainment industry, on and off Broadway, on screens large and small, in the leadership of theaters here and abroad and more. The 24 Hour Plays Nationals are produced in partnership with Sands College of the Performing Arts at Pace University.
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Supporting the next generation of theater
Each year, The 24 Hour Plays Nationals bring together extraordinary early-career theater artists in New York and Los Angeles for a free professional intensive that culminates in the cohort’s own production of The 24 Hour Plays. The Nationals program includes workshops, master classes, career development and lively panel discussions with prominent industry guests, arming the next generation with what they truly need to succeed in this business — each other.
Since 2007, over 600 early-career actors, directors, playwrights, producers, composers, designers and stage managers have gathered to make work and build community. Nationals alumni work across the entertainment industry, on and off Broadway, on screens large and small, in the leadership of theaters here and abroad and more. The 24 Hour Plays Nationals are produced in partnership with Sands College of the Performing Arts at Pace University.
Nationals participants are selected through an application process. Our application is currently closed, and will reopen in early 2027.
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Nationals Alumni
include playwrights Bekah Brunstetter, Kallan Dana, Gracie Gardner, Ken Greller, Dave Harris, Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Laura Jacqmin, Josh Koenigsberg, Justin Kuritzkes, Mike Lew, Alex Lin, Sophie McIntosh, Mara Nelson-Greenberg, Liliana Padilla, a.k. Payne, Phanésia Pharel, Eliana Pipes, Andrew Rincón, Harrison David Rivers and Celine Song; actors Tessa Albertson, Pico Alexander, Satya Babha, Nora Garrett, Alice Kremelberg, Elizabeth Lail, Naomi Lorrain, Tedra Millan, Bobby Moreno, Ebonee Noel, Coral Peña, Zoe Perry, Will Rogers, Brandon Scott, Chris Smith, Chelsea Spack, Jessica Varley, Haskiri Velazquez and Natalie Walker; producers Shariffa Ali, Kelcie Beene, Hope Chavez, Aislinn Frantz, Carly Hugo, Abigail Jean-Baptiste, Annaleise Loxton, Mona Moriya and Patrick Anthony Surillo; and directors Jake Beckhard, Lyndsay Burch, Miranda Cornell, James Dacre, Ryan Dobrin, Nina Goodheart, Michael Herwitz, Mikhaela Mahoney, Taylor Reynolds, Colette Robert and Laura Savia.
Guest Artists & Panelists
have included Annie Baker, Jocelyn Bioh, Renee Blinkwolt, Michael Chernus, Claire Danes, Kristoffer Diaz, dots, Maria Dizzia, Timothy Douglas, Rachel Dratch, J. Holtham, Jeremy Blocker, Jesse Eisenberg, Joel Marsh Garland, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Lucas Hnath, Michael R. Jackson, Russell G. Jones, Julia Jordan, Thomas Kail, Karen Kohlhaas, Warren Leight, David Lindsay-Abaire, Aasif Mandvi, Victor Malana Maog, Michael Mitnick, Lou Moreno, Bruce Norris, Denis O’Hare, Austin Pendleton, Mona Pirnot, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Portia, Max Posner, Adam Rapp, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Christopher Shinn, Leigh Silverman, Rachel Sussman, Liesl Tommy and many other stage and screen professionals.
