What is Studio Roanoke?
Studio Roanoke is a 60-seat black box theatre dedicated to building a home for new plays and the people who create them. We are a place where playwrights are nurtured and developed as well as their plays, the wide array of artists who must collaborate to mount a production, and the audiences who attend those productions. We are an experiential learning lab where conventional ideas of what is theatre can be tested and expanded. Studio Roanoke is a place of learning and doing, a place where risks can be taken. Above all, it is a community based on collaboration rather than competition, where the risks and the rewards are shared. How and why did Studio Roanoke get started? In 2008, Playwright Kenley Smith realized that there were fewer and fewer venues where new work could be mounted in front of a live audience in our community. Passionate about playwriting, Ken believes our community needs a place where we can see exciting new plays created by interesting new writers and performers. He r
