New Play Reading Series
Chance’s On the Radar (OTR) New Works Program consists of a new script reading series, a playwright’s residency, and a commissioning program all geared towards supporting the creation of diverse new stories by emerging U.S. playwrights. The goal of OTR is to create a deep and long-term commitment to playwrights by offering them access to a community of artists and audiences, a supportive environment, and the freedom to explore their own boundaries and interests.
Past Resident Playwrights include Keiko Green, Exal Iraheta, B.J. Tindal, Krista Knight, Jessica Huang, Joanna Garner, Ted Malawer, Jenny Connell Davis, Lauren Yee, Nick Jones, Marshall Pailet, Zayd Dohrn, and Adam Szymkowicz.
“Chance is serving a vital role in American theater, creating the kind of access point that allows people to attend, and participate, and take ownership of what’s on stage in a way that other, larger institutions just can’t begin to match.”
– Jenny Connell Davis, 2016 Resident Playwright
“Chance audiences are experienced, focused and eager to support experimental and challenging work. It was so useful just to hear the play in front of them – their engagement and reactions taught me so much.”
– Jessica Huang, 2019 Resident Playwright
“The Chance has been a warm and welcoming home to my work in Orange County and has been the launching pad to numerous works that have had a continued life across the country.”
– Lauren Yee, 2015 Resident Playwright
2024 OTR Reading Series
Dustin H. Chinn
A native Seattleite and long-term Manhattanite, Dustin’s developed plays with Ars Nova’s Play Group, the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep Summer Residency Lab, A.C.T.’s New Strands Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the University of Washington via a Mellon Creative Fellowship, Ensemble Studio Theatre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UMass at Amherst New Play Lab, UC Berkeley, and Vampire Cowboys. Proud product of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest collective of Asian American playwrights in the history of recorded time. 2022-3 Colt Coeur resident. Special thanks to Madeleine Oldham, Mina Morita, Ken Savage, Mei Ann Teo, Josh Costello, Natalia, and Oánh for the support, notes, and meals. Dustin’s headed to Scotland this June for the Hawthornden Castle Literary Retreat, where he’ll start a new play based on his liveaboard scuba boat travels.
