Programs

We invite playwrights eager to develop their unique voices and styles and explore new narratives to become resident artists at Prologue. Our resident artists gain access to library resources, administrative support, dramaturgical consultations, developmental workshops, and international networking opportunities.

Our international residency program bridges global talent with the Taiwanese theatre community. By invitation only, we offer residencies tailored to each artist's unique creative process. We provide comprehensive support through dramaturgical consultations, developmental workshops, and staged readings, while facilitating potential partnerships with local venues and institutions.

Our writers group is designed for emerging playwrights ready to embark on their first major projects. Through a series of reading and writing exercises, culminating in staged readings of selected scenes, members experience the full process of drafting, revising, receiving dramaturgical consultations, and incorporating critical feedback.

International play salon is a book club where participants read and discuss plays from diverse societal and cultural contexts. It offers a valuable opportunity to explore different storytelling techniques and reflect on how plays are written and produced in Taiwan. Our goal is to leave reading footprints across the world within five years.

Taiwanese Play Salon is a reading group dedicated to the formative eras of modern Taiwanese theatre. By revisiting seminal works written between the 1920s and 1980s, we aim to bridge a long-standing generational gap, reconnecting today’s playwrights with how our predecessors captured the shifting political, economic, and cultural landscapes of a volatile island history.

Our developmental workshops provide playwrights with a collaborative space to refine their work. Here, they can test concepts, receive feedback, and develop their plays with the support of actors, directors, and dramaturgs. Whether a play enters Prologue through an application or by invitation, we hope our workshop serves as a stepping stone on its journey to full production.

Featuring four unique programs—The Universe in a Playwright’s Mind, Archives Unlocked, Who Reads Plays?, and The Show Must Go On—the Prologue Podcast interviews Taiwanese playwrights, introduces plays from Taiwan and beyond, and explores the performative nature of everyday life through the lens of theatre. Our audience spans the globe.