Making Better Theater...
       
One Play - and Playwright - at a Time  

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference is dedicated to the development of new American plays from the playwrights' perspective.

Playwrights selected for the Conference are invited to spend two weeks in McCall, Idaho writing, re-writing and rehearsing their plays with a talented company of directors, actors and dramaturgs. Each play is then presented as a fully staged reading at McCall's Alpine Playhouse.

In addition to playwrights selected via play submissions from across the country, four playwrights from the McCall/Donnelly High School playwriting class are chosen to take part in the Conference. Student playwrights are mentored by professional playwrights, and go through the same process of rehearsals, re-writes and staged readings.

Our new Playwrights Intensive Program supports plays that would be better served by a week of table work, offering playwrights an intense dramaturgical focus and a sit-down reading.

Since 2003 the Seven Devils has offered a free playwriting workshop to interested writers at all levels. Past workshops have been hosted by: Robert Schenkkan, Eugene Lee, Sherry Kramer and Jeni Mahoney.

Each step in our process is designed to give the playwrights new and deeper insights into their work, and to give audience members and fellow artists a deeper understanding of the playwright's craft.

Throughout the Conference, student and community artists work hand-in-hand with their professional counterparts.

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference is grateful for support from the A.K. Starr Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, The Laby Family Foundation, Kathy Troutner and many other generous individuals, as well as in-kind support from The Alpine Playhouse, Bistro45, Hotel McCall, The McCall Store, The Drama Bookshop, The McCall Arts & Humanities Council, McCall Donnelly High School, Mint Theater Company, NY Theater Experience Publishing, Heinenmann Publishing, Ridley's Supermarket, McCall Magazine, Common Grounds Cafe and Lumbermen's Building Supply. Thanks to all our supporters, and to the open-hearted people of McCall , Idaho .

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference is a project of id Theatre Company and sponsored by the The Alpine Playhouse.

Jeni Mahoney, Artistic Director

First read-thru of DEMOLITION by Ben Sahl, at the Alpine Playhouse (photo by Sara Jessup - 2006)
 
  Playwright Mary Portser (left) with dramaturg Michael Nassar & director Amy Saltz in rehearsal for HOMESPUN (photo by Sara Jessup - 2006)        
                     
     
       
Nick Hershenow, Ed Baker (back) & Brooke Herzog in THE TRAGEDY OF THE BROTHERS LAFFERTY by Ben Verschoor (photo by Sara Jessup - 2006)  

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference is a presented by id Theatre Company, Sponsored by the Alpine Playhouse and made possible in part by contributions from the A.K. Starr Charitable Trust, Idaho Commission on the Arts & The National Endowment on the Arts.