Snodgrass receives 2019 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education
BPT Artistic Director and MFA Program Director Kate Snodgrass was among those honored on May 8 during the final faculty meeting of the year. Dean Stan Sclaroff and Acting Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Arianne Chernock honored the winners of this year’s CAS teaching awards. “Professor Snodgrass has helped make BU the premiere […]
Congratulations, graduates!
This week we bid congratulations—and farewell!—to our 2015 class of MFA Playwrights: Danyele Brickner, Stephanie K. Brownell (above, with Kate), Will Carter, Abbey Fenbert, and Phil Schroeder. We hope you were able to catch this group’s amazing work this season in the @Play Festival of New Work. We will also miss graduating seniors Zoe Laventhol […]
Playwrights brave Juno aftermath at Region 1!
Playwrights Cassie M. Seinuk (from Lesley University, who is also our BTM stage manager) and our own Abbey Fenbert are taking Hyannis by storm this week [sorry — couldn’t resist that one], at the KCACTF Region 1 Festival. Thanks for the photo, Cassie!
…aaand we’re back!
Today is Playwrights’ Perspective’s fourth birthday, and we’re celebrating by unveiling this blog as an integrated part of BostonPlaywrights.org. Hello! It’s important to have all the information about our work “under one roof,” so to speak, so this move marks an exciting new era in the history of this blog (and Web site). Things you […]
What is happening here?!
If you’ve been watching this space (and I honestly feel bad if you have), you’ve probably been thinking, “Well, she usually takes a little break after the Marathon — when everybody’s feeling a little blogged-out — but…what happened?” Or something like that. Here’s the deal: This blog, as it presently exists, is run on Blogger […]
Guess who’s Cumming to dinner?
Look who ended up seated right next to guest of honor Alan Cumming at dinner on Monday night, when the award-winning actor/director/producer/activist was in town to speak about his life and career in Metcalf Hall. Cumming’s papers are now part of the collection at BU’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Willkommen! Kate, Alan Cumming, and […]
The Jon Lipsky Play Anthology
You have just a few more days to contribute to the Kickstarter campaign for The Jon Lipsky Play Anthology, two volumes of work by the playwright and BU professor, who passed away last year. Lipsky’s plays appeared regularly in Boston Theater Marathons over the years, and a cycle of eight of the shorts – collectively […]