LPAC is built around LaGuardia Community College students, not just as audience members, but as emerging artists and future leaders. Whether it’s creating job opportunities, opening doors to professional connections, New York City is the cultural capital of the country, and one could argue the entire world as well.

The incubator brings together LAGCC students, alumni, and faculty with professional mentors and partner institutions for a weekend of learning, making, and connection culminating in a 24-Hour Plays event. Through this, LPAC aims to create an on-ramp for students from community college training to the professional theater world. 

Rough Draft champions innovative, boundary-pushing artists by offering time, resources, and room to experiment. Through work-in-progress presentations, artists have the opportunity to explore and refine their ideas, while audiences gain insight into the creative process. Many of these works go on to evolve into fully realized productions, underscoring the festival’s role in fostering new work.