Our 2025-26 Season

Find Your Place

Our 2025-26 Season will explore the theme “Find Your Place”.

First Flight Festival

Join us next year for ‘A New Decade’ of the First Flight Festival – ATC’s celebration of new plays and monologues by local writers!

11th Annual First Flight Festival, July 2026

Salon Reading Series

The 2025-2026 Salon Reading Series will include six new play readings based on our 2025-26 theme. See events page for date and place!

Crystal Skillman (Playwright) is the author of the NYTimes Critics’ Pick “Open”, which recently had a critically acclaimed run Off-Broadway at WP Theater in New York. Her other plays, which have also earned praise from the NYTimes, include: “Cut”, “Geek”, and “King Kirby”, co-written with Fred Van Lente about the life of Marvel’s co-creator, artist Jack Kirby, which is now a podcast series on Broadway Podcast Network. Her new play commission, “The Rocket Men”, has won awards from Venturous and EST/Sloan. The play is currently receiving a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at three NNPN theatres around the country in their 2025-2026 seasons, starting this fall (Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis; Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta; Angels Theatre, Nebraska). She is honored that the play received its West Coast Premiere at Oregon Contemporary Theatre at the start of the year. Crystal’s plays made their international debut with “Rain and Zoe Save the World” (Jermyn Street Theater, UK) and “Open”’s tour with the Onstage Festival in Italy in 2022. Her new play, co-written with Fred Van Lente, “Tragedy: A Comedy”, has been selected for the very first FSU/Asolo Conservatory New Works Play Lab in Sarasota. Her first graphic novel has just come out from Rocketship Entertainment; she has written for Wondery Kids, Adventure Time comics, and Marvel comics. She is represented by Brian T. Sherman (IPEX Artists Agency). https://www.crystalskillman.com/ @crystalskillman


Crystal Skillman

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