KCACTF recognizes BU playwrights for outstanding work
BU MFA Playwrights and alums were among the honorees at last weekend’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Rx Machina by Caity Shea Violette (produced in BPT’s 2021-22 season) was named co-recipient of The National Student Playwriting Award. Cayenne Douglass’ Atlantic City Seagulls and Beasts (produced in BPT’s 2021-22 season) were cited as honorable mentions […]
Rockwell and Violette headed to GPTC
Congratulations to Playwriting alums Kira Rockwell and Caity-Shea Violette, who both have plays invited to the upcoming GPTC New Play Conference!
Hidey-Ho Rangerinos: ‘Rx Machina’
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette is one of two plays about addiction currently running in Boston. It’s no coincidence. COVID-19 has decimated our mental health. The modern human, when faced with a medical crisis and no affordable solutions, will turn to legal and illegal self-medicating. The […]
On set: ‘Rx Machina’
Sneak peek at Alyssa Jewell’s set for Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette, onstage starting next week!
Violette’s ‘Reap the Grove’ a winner in ScreenCraft competition
Caity-Shea Violette’s (whose Rx Machina will be produced by BPT next month) Reap the Grove has been named a winner in the 2021 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. Congratulations!
Congratulations, graduates!
We’re so proud of our graduating playwrights! Not everyone could attend last weekend’s Commencement in person, but Ally Sass found a crafty way to make sure the rest of her cohort (L-R: Caity-Shea Violette, Daniel C. Blanda, Cayenne Douglass, and Eliana Pipes) was there in spirit. Congratulations, all!
Violette’s RX MACHINA Clauder Gold Prize winner
Third-year MFA playwright Caity-Shea Violette’s play Rx Machina is a 2020 Gold Prize winner in Portland Stage’s Clauder Competition, which includes a $1,500 cash award plus a workshop at Portland Stage. Congratulations, Caity-Shea!
BPT Talks About Design: a tiny q&a with RX MACHINA director Blair Cadden
BPT’s 2020-21 season of new plays—thesis plays by our cohort of third-year playwrights—has been postponed until next year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the meantime, all five plays are currently being workshopped in collaboration with our friends at BU’s College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. A series of conversations about these plays, […]
BPT Talks: a tiny q&a with Caity-Shea Violette
BPT’s 2020-21 season of new plays—thesis plays by our cohort of third-year playwrights—has been postponed until next year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the meantime, all five plays are currently being workshopped in collaboration with our friends at BU’s College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. A series of conversations about these […]
Violette’s ‘Slow Jam’ a winner at Sam French OOB
Congratulations to third-year MFA playwright Caity-Shea Violette, whose short play Slow Jam is one of six plays selected as winners of this year’s Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival!