Great news from KCACTF
Playwright alum Alexis Scheer’s Laughs in Spanish, produced by BPT in 2019, is the recipient of KCACTF’s Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award. The award includes a check for $7,500, membership in the Dramatists Guild of America and the Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis, an offer of publication from Samuel French, and a professional […]
KCACTF Region 1 update
Three of our second-year playwrights were honored at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s (KCACTF) Region 1 Festival in Hyannis: Caity-Shea Violette’s ten-minute play Slow Jam was chosen to advance to the National KCACTF, one of 16 selected across the country—two per region—for consideration for the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award. Daniel Blanda’s […]
A History of Book Clubs in the U.S.
1634 On a ship headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, religious reformer Anne Hutchinson organizes a female discussion group to examine weekly sermons. 1778 Hannah Mather Crocker organizes a female reading society in Boston to study science and read the belles lettres. Early 1800s Various groups of women in New England start meeting regularly to […]
Shea’s ‘The Stand’ named national award winner in 2019 Glaspell Playwriting Festival
First-year MFA playwright Caity-Shea Violette’s short play The Stand has been announced as the national winner in QC Theatre Workshop’s 2019 Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival! Congratulations!