2023 Matchbox Reading Series

Crowded Fire actively supports the creation of high quality contemporary theater through commissions, staged readings, and in-house workshops — and the Matchbox Reading Series puts this new work development front and center. Our legendary reading series returns for the first time in three years this spring with a twist: MORE PLAYS. Our artists have been creating new work with us these past couple years, and there’s just so much we can’t wait to hear out loud. Over three weekends, we’ll be workshopping and presenting new plays by seven fantastic local playwrights, including four from our R&D Playwright Development Lab, plus one playwright we’re thrilled to introduce to Bay Area audiences.