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.


PlayMakers’ Haj Receives Prestigious Fichandler Award

Oct. 6, 2014 PlayMakers’ Haj Receives Prestigious Fichandler Award Joseph Haj, Producing Artistic Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC, has been named […]

PlayMakers opens season Sept. 17 with Tony Award-winning comedy

PlayMakers Repertory Company kicks off its new Mainstage Season Sept. 17-Oct. 5 with the Tony Award-winning comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” by […]

PlayMakers kicks off PRC² season with ‘Rodney King’

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the regional premieres of three thought-provoking productions in its 2014-2015 PRC2 second stage series, kicking off Sept. 2 with Roger […]

PlayMakers awarded national grant to support ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

For immediate use: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 PlayMakers awarded national grant to support ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Arts Midwest in partnership with the National Endowment […]

PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory to perform ‘Hairspray’

      A cast of young student actors will perform the Tony Award-winning musical “Hairspray” July 16-20 at the University of North Carolina at […]

Austin’s Rude Mechanicals in residence at PlayMakers May 26-June 7

Austin, Texas theater ensemble Rude Mechanicals will be developing a performance piece while in residence with PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina […]

PlayMakers’ Haj takes UNC/Chapel Hill creative team to Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Joseph Haj, producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, is leading a team of artists from PlayMakers to mount a production of William Shakespeare’s “Pericles” […]

PlayMakers awarded NEA Art Works grant for 2014 repertory productions

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that PlayMakers Repertory Company will receive a $50,000 NEA Art Works grant for […]

PlayMakers presents regional premiere of ‘Hold These Truths’

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the regional premiere of “Hold These Truths,” written by Jeanne Sakata, April 23-27. PlayMakers concludes its 2013-2014 PRC² series with […]