Press Releases

Please direct all press inquiries to:

Associate Marketing Director, Rosalie Preston.

We are happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover our company via artist interviews and reviews, but ask that you not attempt to contact the artists directly. As a repertory company with an in-house scene shop, props shop, and costume shop, we are also happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover any aspect of our company, including exclusive behind-the-scenes access to artists and technicians in the months leading up to our productions and events.


Tony-nominated comedy opens PlayMakers Mainstage

CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theatre in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, kicks off another Mainstage Season […]

PlayMakers PRC² series opens with ‘A Number’

For immediate use: Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC 2 second stage series opens its fifth season with playwright Caryl Churchill’s intensely charged […]

‘The Amish Project’ joins PlayMakers’ second stage lineup

PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present “The Amish Project” as part of its thought-provoking […]

The Making of a King: NEA Grant

For immediate use: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 PlayMakers awarded dual NEA grants for Shakespeare outreach PlayMakers Repertory Company has been awarded two national arts grants […]

PlayMakers’ Granneman elected to national post

UNC News Brief For immediate use: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 CHAPEL HILL — Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been elected secretary […]

PlayMakers PRC² series stages Didion memoir

For immediate use: April 12, 2011 CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the stage adaptation of Joan Didion’s searing memoir “The Year of […]

‘Virginia Woolf’ to complete PlayMakers’ Mainstage Season

CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company has announced that Edward Albee’s marital slugfest “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will complete its 2011-2012 Mainstage Season. The […]

PlayMakers online auction goes live April 21

CHAPEL HILL – Carolina basketball tickets, a week-long trip to London and dinner at The Fearrington House Country Inn near Chapel Hill will be among […]

PlayMakers announces 2011-2012 season

PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 36th season, highlighted by a Shakespearean coming-of-age epic and two world premieres, was unveiled Thursday (March 17) by producing artistic director Joseph […]