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Montana Repertory Theatre / First Reads “Meet the Playwright” Paul W. Kruse at Missoula Public Library

Name: Montana Repertory Theatre / First Reads “Meet the Playwright” Paul W. Kruse at Missoula Public Library
Start: 2026-05-02T14:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-05-02T16:00:00-06:00
Location: Missoula Public Library

Montana Repertory First Reads with Playwright Paul W. Kruse at Missoula Public Library in Missoula, Montana at 2:00 pm Saturday, May 2, 2026 — During the Season Finale of **Montana Repertory Theatre’s “First Reads” Series**, meet the playwright of **HOTDISH**, **Paul W. Kruse** at 2:00 pm Saturday, May 2 in the **Cooper Room** at **Missoula Public Library**

May 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Doors @ 1:30 pm

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT (Literally, like, he’ll be at the reading)

During the Season Finale of Montana Repertory Theatre’s “First Reads” Series, HOTDISH by PAUL W. KRUSE at 2:00 pm Saturday, May 2 in the Cooper Room at the Missoula Public Library.

Free & Open to All

Don’t miss the last installment of First Reads, and our 25/26 Season Finale, Saturday, May 2 – Hotdish by Paul W. Kruse. This script is hilarious and heartfelt in all the best ways, and Paul will be joining us in-person for a Q&A after the reading!

Paul W. Kruse has worked with The Rep in the past on other installments of Plays on Tap including Hip Strip Hijinks and BINGO!. As a playwright and media artist from Western Wisconsin, his work flows from his Catholic roots and ever-evolving experience of family. Paul often writes collaboratively, drawing from his years of experience as a videographer and documentarian. He is a 2023–2025 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and a cohort member of Audible’s third Emerging Playwrights Fund. His audio play Once Removed was an official selection at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Paul’s plays have been produced by Adjusted Realists in Brooklyn, NY; Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA; the Vortex Theater in Austin, TX; and in high schools around the country.

Paul has developed work at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Yaddo, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and Middlebury College. Paul completed his MFA at UT Austin in 2020, where he was a fellow with the Michener Center for Writers. From 2012–2022, Paul was resident playwright with Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective, which he co-founded with Adil Mansoor and Nicole Shero.