Opportunities we offer
We offer our playwriting students great opportunities while they are here—and the possibilities keep coming for our graduates.
Current Students:
- BU New Play Initiative (in-house collaborations with faculty, directors, and actors)
- Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Playwriting Awards Program (national recognition)
- BU Professional Theatre Initiative (internships with professional theatres across the country)
- Participation with faculty and students in productions of the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP), the professional extension of the BU School of Theatre
- Internships at Huntington Theatre Company (a LORT theatre company)
- InCite Arts Festival participation with productions in NYC and elsewhere
- Full production in the third year of study within Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) professional season of new works
Alumni:
- Massachusetts Young Playwrights’ Project (mentoring and teaching possibilities)
- Boston Theater Marathon (connections with Boston-area theatre companies and publications)
- BCAP productions with faculty and student participation
- Ground Floor Reading Series (professional, public readings of new works)
- Full professional productions at BPT