PLAYlab is our Professional playwright’s lab and a key player in our mission to nurture and promote new works for the theatre that speak to today's audience. 

Led by award winning playwright and screenwriter, Shem Bitterman, PLAYlab meets for one year on the last Sunday of every month. Membership is by invitation with participants focuing on creating a brand new work, starting from scratch. The year culminates in LAb Works, a festival of new works performed by professional actors and directors.

IN 2010 KTC produced the World Premiere of INFLUENCE written by Shem. The play received an LA Weekly nomination for best play as well as a LADCC nomination for lead actor. INFLUENCE  is the third in Shem's Iraq war trilogy. MAN.GOV, the first, was produced by Circus Theatricals and nominated for Best Play by the LA WEEKLY. HARM'S WAY, the second, also produced by CT, won the 2008 Pen Award. Both transferred to New York.  His newest play A DEATH IN COLOMBIA premiered at KTC's Skylight Theatre in Hollywood in July 2011.