Graduate Playwriting Program

Graduates of the Playwriting Program at BU have earned many awards and professional productions.

Our Elliot Norton-Award winning set Billy Meleady, Susan McConnell, and Ciaran Crawford in The Blowin of Baile Gall by Ronan Noone (2002) [photo courtesy Richard Chambers]

Among them are:

• The 2002, 2003, and 2005 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Play Awards
• The Kennedy Center’s Charles MacArthur/Helen Hayes Award for "Best New Play"
• The Kennedy Center’s Charlotte Woolard Award for "Promising New Voice in American Theatre"
• Eight Kennedy Center Awards for Playwriting, including the Paula Vogel Award, the David Mark Cohen Award, the Mark Twain Comedy Award, Dad's Garage Short Play Award, and the John Cauble Short Play Award.
• Six John Gassner Playwriting Awards (NETC)
• The Actors' Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award
• Gypsy Road Company 21st Century Playwrights’ Award
• Six Massachusetts Arts Council Playwriting Grants
• Three Provincetown Theatre Company Playwriting Awards
• The 2001 Theatre Hero Award
• Six IRNE Awards for “Best New Play”
• Seven Off-Broadway productions
• Two London's West End productions
• Numerous LORT Regional Theatre productions
• Two productions at The Huntington Theatre Company (Nixon’s Nixon & Sonia Flew)
• Two Elliot Norton Awards for "Best New Script"
• 10 Commissions from South Coast Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, the Playwrights' Center, The Alliance Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, among others

...AND THAT’S JUST THE FIRST 25 YEARS!