The Playwrights Development Residency is a component of It’s Personal, a program that provides key support and resources for the chosen writer at every stage of their play’s development. Using the resources of the It’s Personal community and catered guidance, coaching, and mentorship throughout the process. It creates a fertile community and fosters a web of supportive artistic relationships across generations.
The Playwrights Development Series Residency includes:

  • Weekly one-on-one (45min) coaching sessions on chosen play.
  • (2) Staged Readings**, (1) within the first month of the process and (2) towards the end of the process.
  • Free access to all It’s Personal workshops and events.
  • A final, workshopped, main stage performance of the chosen play by the playwright put up at the Complex Theatre in Hollywood for one weekend of a total of (3) performances at the end of the year's residency.
Once you become a resident with It’s Personal you will always be considered a part of our community of writers. However, after being a resident with the Playwrights Development Series for one year, you’ll have several options of what continuing being an active resident playwright with It’s Personal will entail. These will be presented to you upon acceptance into the program.


The Playwrights Development Series Residency will be ACCEPTING applications for our SPRING 2021 Residency in November, 2020.
​Sam Ciavarella

Sam is a proud American Music and Dramatic Academy graduate in NYC and honored to be the Playwright in Residence for It's Personals inaugural Playwright Development Series! Spanning her 8 years in NYC, Sam has had her plays Writers Retreat and Break Room produced in the Riant Theatre's Strawberry One-Act Festival garnering 'Best Play' and 'Best Actress' nominations. Writers Retreat later was published in The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival Vol. 8. Sam's play, Line Drive made it to the finals in the Unchained Theater's One-Act Festival competition and won for 'Best Director'. Sam also wrote, produced, and performed several one woman shows, Mouth Wide Open and That Feels Weird to Me receiving their world premieres at her favorite place in NYC - the Laurie Beechman Theater. 

Deliver Me world premiered in 2014 at Play.Sing.Give as a staged reading followed by a performance at the Thespis Festival. She can not wait to finally see Deliver Me in a full mainstage production