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Celebrating two decades of nurturing emerging and established playwrights, directors, actors, and designers, the Virgin Labfest (VLF) continues to foster its garden of brave narratives with 12 new scripts ripe for the picking. The country’s theater festival of untried, untested, and unstaged one-act plays returns from June 11 to June 29, 2025, at the Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez (CCP Black Box Theater).  NEW SCRIPTS, NEW CONVERSATIONS Featuring 12 new scripts by 8 virgin male and female playwrights and 4 returning playwrights in its milestone year, VLFXX: HINOG blooms into a passionate community of unheard voices and untold stories, bringing people closer through truthful and compelling storytelling. A group of friends makes the most of their summer vacation with a mystery game in YOJ’s TBT: TAKBO, BATANG TONDO . Albin, the policeman in their little world, is baffled when the real “suspect” isn’t punished. Liane Carlo Suelan’s ANG BATA KAG ANG ILAGA is set in St. Jerome’s Home for...

  Celebrating two decades of nurturing emerging and established playwrights, directors, actors, and designers, the Virgin Labfest (VLF) continues to foster its garden of brave narratives with 12 new scripts ripe for the picking. The country’s theater festival of untried, untested, and unstaged one-act plays returns from June 11 to June 29, 2025, at the Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez (CCP Black Box Theater).  NEW SCRIPTS, NEW CONVERSATIONS Featuring 12 new scripts by 8 virgin male and female playwrights and 4 returning playwrights in its milestone year, VLFXX: HINOG blooms into a passionate community of unheard voices and untold stories, bringing people closer through truthful and compelling storytelling. A group of friends makes the most of their summer vacation with a mystery game in YOJ’s TBT: TAKBO, BATANG TONDO . Albin, the policeman in their little world, is baffled when the real “suspect” isn’t punished. Liane Carlo Suelan’s ANG BATA KAG ANG ILAGA is set in St. Jerome’s H...

  Young aspiring playwrights can now apply for the Virgin Labfest XX Writing Fellowship Program (VLF XX WFP) until April 30, 2025. The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), through its Artist Training Division, spearheads the VLF XX WFP, a two-week mentorship program on the study and practice of dramatic writing for the stage. The VLF XX WFP is open to applicants 18 to 29 years of age; a college student or a young professional; have not been involved or won in any professional playwriting and screenwriting platform; and can commit to whole days throughout the entire duration of the program, rehearsals, and performance for the Culminating Showcase. Chosen Writing Fellows will settle a minimal registration fee of Php 2,500.   Interested applicants must submit a duly accomplished application form that can be downloaded at bit.ly/VLF20WFPFellowshipApplication ,  one (1) to two (2) samples of their stage plays (maximum of 10 pages total) in .pdf format written in either Fi...

  The Virgin Labfest, the annual theater festival of untried, unstaged, and untested one-act plays, is looking for a new batch of written works for its 21st season. Twelve (12) new plays will be selected to be produced and staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in June 2026.    The deadline for submission is on February 28, 2025, at 11:59 PM.  Submissions may be sent online in .doc or .pdf format only to thewritersblocinc@gmail.com .   The call for script submissions is open to all Filipino citizens only. The festival is open to various themes and genres. The playwrights of the chosen scripts must be willing to undergo a script development process for their works with the creative team of the festival. Interested playwrights must submit their manuscripts with a maximum running time of 40 minutes, about 25-35 pages long.    Submitted works MUST NOT have previously been published in book form, staged commercially for more than two (2) performan...

  After its successful three-week run for its 19th edition, with sold out shows and high turnouts of audiences, the Virgin Labfest marches on to its milestone season in 2025, with 12 new plays culled from over 200 submissions.  Co-presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Tanghalang Pilipino Foundation Inc. (TP) and the Writer’s Bloc Inc., the playwrights festival of untried, untested and unstaged plays announces the new "virgin" plays, namely:    1.     Minating ni Mariah ang Manto ng Mommy ni Mama Mary by ELJAY CASTRO DELDOC 2.     Unang Araw by IVAN VILLACORTA GENTOLIZO 3.     Anniversary by NELSITO GOMEZ 4.    Ang Problema sa Trolley by IMUTHIS (HARVEY REBAYA SALLADOR) 5.     Mga Magindara sa Siyudad by CHRIS JOSEPH JUNIO 6.     Mommy G by JOBERT GREY LANDEZA 7.     Don’t Meow ...