The Workshop is a 2017 Off-Broadway play written by Torrey Townsend and produced by theater incubator SoftFocus. Directed by Knud Adams, the play starred Austin Pendleton, as well as Tim Platt, Cesar J. Rosado, Claire Siebers, Laura Elkeslassy, and Christopher Dylan White  when it premiered in New York.

On a university campus in New York City, professor and former playwright Ward Stein (Pendleton) leads four graduate students in a workshop on writing.

The play was received positively by critics. A New York Times "Critic's Pick", The Workshop is described as "an incisive and insightful tale of ambition and envy, inspiration and mediocrity" by reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli, who says "the show should resonate with a wide swath of theatergoers." Helen Shaw of Time Out says, "You can tell Torrey Townsend has studied his craft... Townsend’s well-performed play is bracingly cynical." In Vulture.com, Sarah Holdren writes, “The uncomfortable brilliance of The Workshop is that it won’t let us pat ourselves on the back. Townsend is questioning the automatic authority that Ward and those that look, sound, and write like him are afforded in their opinions — they are creating the syllabus and they are they syllabus — and he is probing the ways in which inspiration and toxicity can exist within the same body. That body is Ward’s, but it’s also the body of our contemporary theater.”