Roundabout Theatre Company has announced Iraisa Ann Reilly and Liba Vaynberg as playwright selections for its 2025-2026 Roundabout Underground residencies. Introduced last season, these residencies are dedicated to recognizing outstanding playwrights by elevating new artists and offering them significant development opportunities.
As part of the residencies, Reilly and Vaynberg will be provided with time and space to work on one of their plays. Each writer is offered a multi-day workshop of the play, scheduled time at a desk in a shared workspace and access to Roundabout resources and staff that they feel is helpful to their process and overall artistic development.
Reilly is currently under commission with Arden Theatre Company and is a member of Soho Rep’s 2024-2025 writer/director lab. Reilly is also an adjunct professor in the department of dramatic writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts as well as a teaching artist with Roundabout, ESPA Primary Stages and Dreamyard Inc.
Vaynberg’s plays include “The Matriarchs,” “The Gett” and “Round Table”; Vaynberg’s television credits include the upcoming “Star City.” As an actor, highlights include “New Amsterdam,” “The Soap Myth,” “Oregon Trail,” “Golem of Havana” and “Lost in Yonkers.”
Roundabout’s playwright residencies exist to support early-career writers by developing and producing their new works in a creative, low-pressure environment. The program also offers opportunities for directors and designers to finetune their storytelling skills. Writers who receive an Underground production also receive a Roundabout commission in an effort to offer continual support to these emerging playwrights.
Roundabout’s 2025-2026 theater season includes Broadway productions of “The Rocky Horror Show,” “Fallen Angels” and “Oedipus” and Off-Broadway stagings of “Archduke” and “Chinese Republicans.”
