LAUNCH PAD completed a major project on June 6, 2020 entitled Alone, Together. This Festival of 39 new monologues and short plays written by 24 playwrights was performed on Zoom. For more info on the project, please visit our website: 

https://launchpad.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/alone-together

The Alone, Together collection was published by Dramatic Publishing Company in Fall, 2020. You can read and/or apply for licensing HERE.

In 2016, we released two short documentary films about LAUNCH PAD. Check out the program via these videos. 

LAUNCH PAD

 an artist residency and performance program for new plays at University of California, Santa Barbara.

LAUNCH PAD brings playwrights of national stature to UCSB to develop and produce their work side by side with students, faculty artists, and professional guest artists. 

“What Risa Brainin has created at UCSB is entirely rare, but extremely necessary, to the ecology of the American Theatre. By fostering relationships between professional writers and her students, Risa is developing a new generation of advocates for the new play, the contemporary voice, and the inherent value of collaboration. Simultaneously, she is offering some of the most talented playwrights in the country a home in which to safely explore, and providing some of the best production values that exist in the theatre today -- in both the professional and academic spheres.”

- Liz Engelman, Dramaturg and Director of Tofte Lake Center, MN