Metzler’s ‘Maid’ honored by AFI and WGA
Maid, adapted for the screen as a Netflix limited series by alum Molly Smith Metzler, was among ten television programs honored by the American Film Institute. Maid is also the recipient of a Writers Guild of America Award—which recognize outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional categories—in its Adapted […]
Metzler joins Netflix family
Playwright alum Molly Smith Metzler has joined the Netflix family with a multi-year deal, under which she will write and produce new series and other projects for the streaming giant. Metzler created the limited series Maid (based on the book by Stephanie Land) for Netflix, currently ranked in the Netflix Most Popular Top 10 and […]
Metzler creator/showrunner for Netflix’s ‘MAID’
Playwright alum Molly Smith Metzler—whose BPT productions include Elemeno Pea and Training Wisteria—is the creator and showrunner for Netflix’s new series MAID (based on the best-selling memoir by Stephanie Land), which premieres this Friday, Oct. 1. Congratulations, Molly! Watch the trailer
Metzler’s ‘Cry It Out’ at MRT
Happy first performance to playwright alum Molly Smith Metzler, whose Cry It Out plays tonight through May 19 at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell. Congratulations!
Douglass, Metzler included in annual S&K monologue anthologies
Current MFA playwright Cayenne Douglass and playwright alum Molly Smith Metzler are two of the amazing playwrights included in Smith and Kraus’s annual monologue anthologies. Both playwrights appear in both The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2018 and The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2018! Congratulations!
Metzler on the cover of AT
Playwright alum Molly Smith Metzler graces the cover of the December issue of American Theatre (along with her daughter Cora)! The issue also includes a Q&A with Molly, as well as the complete script of her new play Cry It Out.
Metzler’s ‘Cry it Out’ honored with ATCA/Steinberg citation
Playwright alum Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out was honored with an ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award Citation at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival over the weekend, and here she is (center) with Dramatic Publishing Company’s Brad Lohrenz and Linda Habjan. CRY IT OUT premiered at Actors Theatre’s Humana Festival of new American Plays in 2017.
‘Elemeno Pea’: Life’s a Beach
Review from BroadwayWorld.com Sing along: a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-elemenopea. Takes you back, doesn’t it? How many of us thought that was one long name for a letter in the middle of the alphabet? Well, one of the two sisters in Molly Smith Metzler’s charming, funny play Elemeno Pea was convinced of it, and it became a lifelong source […]