PlayMakers Repertory Company

PlayMakers Repertory Company (PRC) has been producing plays on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for fifty years as a unit of the Department of Dramatic Art, which has existed for ninety years at the University. Their symbiotic relationship builds on century of theatre activities at UNC-Chapel Hill, making the 2026-2027 season truly a one to celebrate.
PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History, Continued documents the continuing legacy of PRC and is being sold in a two-book package with the original PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History, which was published in 2021.

In 1975, a unique cultural institution had been created: a professional theatre company located on the campus of a major research university, embedded within the University’s Department of Dramatic Art. The combination of professional artistic achievement and high-quality theatrical training continues to characterize PlayMakers Repertory Company to this day. Then as now, the core of the resident company – composed of faculty who are both teachers and practitioners – works alongside the graduate students in the Department’s three MFA programs. This fertile collaboration is augmented by many of the best directors, designers, and performers working in the field today. Graduate students receive professional training during the day from teachers who become their collaborators at night, both offstage and onstage. Undergraduates learn from faculty members who are constantly moving back and forth between the classroom and the stage, with the knowledge gained in one realm sparking creativity in the other.

This book celebrates this remarkable creative synergy and looks ahead to fifty more years of professional theatre at UNC-Chapel Hill, presented by PlayMakers Repertory Company under the aegis of the Department of Dramatic Art.