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.


Shakespeare’s romantic comedy opens PlayMakers 35th season

PlayMakers , the professional theater company in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will portray some of the Bard’s most beloved […]

PlayMakers PRC² series opens with Beckett’s dark comedy

Nobel Prize-winner Samuel Beckett’s absurdist comedy “Happy Days” kicks off PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC² series Sept. 8-12 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel […]

PlayMakers’ Haj joins national theater board

PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Haj has […]

PlayMakers’ Grannemann appointed to national theater committee

CHAPEL HILL – Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been appointed to the executive committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). […]

Exit Cuckoo’ to complete PlayMakers’ second stage lineup

PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present “Exit Cuckoo” as part of its thought-provoking PRC2 […]

Summer Youth Conservatory performs Dickens ‘whodunit’

For the fourth year in a row, PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence at UNC, joins with The ArtsCenter of Carrboro to present […]

PlayMakers awarded two NEA grants for new season

For the third year in a row, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has recognized the professional theater company based in the College of […]

Rwandan refugee tells her story in PlayMakers play

News Release March 12, 2010 CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company will present “I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a […]

PlayMakers online auction goes live April 1st

For immediate use: Thursday, March 11, 2010 PlayMakers online auction goes live April 1st CHAPEL HILL – Carolina vs. Duke basketball tickets, a week-long trip […]