Play by Sorbello awarded Honegger Prize
Congratulations to Playwriting alum Donna Sorbello, who is this year’s recipient of the Firehouse Center for the Arts’ Honegger Prize for Best Short for her play Ellen Talks About the Bird. Firehouse’s 23rd Annual New Works Festival of Short Plays—including Donna’s play and a short by fellow alum Deirdre Girard—takes place this weekend!
New collection by Girard published by Heuer
Heuer Publishing recently released a new collection of short plays by playwright alum Deirdre Girard, Women at the Center. Each play features a female protagonist. Congratulations, Deirdre!
Alums in print*
*Or, The Most Epic Publications Post Ever: Monica Bauer’s Three Men With Guns is included in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 from Applause Books and her Vivian’s Music, 1969 is available from Original Works Publishing…
Girard’s ‘Short & Scary’ at Arts After Hours
Happy opening to Deirdre Girard’s Short & Scary, an evening of short horror plays (now through Oct. 30), produced by Arts After Hours in Lynn, MA. (This collection of Deirdre’s shorts was recently published by Next Stage Press.)
Thank you…
…to everyone who made Boston Theater Marathon XX possible! See you next year!
Writers at Play Showcase of New Works
Writers at Play—a group of alumni playwrights—will host its annual Showcase of New Works right here at BPT on July 11. Come support some outstanding new plays (not to mention outstanding people)! Sample a few scenes from each new play, read by the professional actors who support Writers at Play throughout the early development process. […]
Hannah Duston has her own Facebook page. Who knew?
I can’t even imagine what the Puritans would have to say about Facebook, but I love this old postcard of the Hannah Duston monument. The page also includes photos of Duston’s grave, home, and other memorials. Take a look! And, of course: Don’t miss Deirdre Girard’s Reconsidering Hanna(h), which closes this weekend! Tickets
‘Hannah’ opening weekend
It was a terrific opening weekend for Reconsidering Hanna(h). We hope you’re able to join us during the run!
Talkin’ To: Deirdre Girard
Don’t miss Deirdre Girard’s Reconsidering Hanna(h), which opens in preview tomorrow night! (And thank you to our friend Alexis Scheer, who is continuing this video series for us!)
Alumni news, in brief:
In case you missed it, here’s a terrific feature story about Reconsidering Hanna(h) playwright Deirdre Girard in The Boston Globe Fall Arts Preview… Ronan Noone is a 2014-15 playwriting fellow at New Rep in Watertown, where his play Scenes From An Adultery will be produced next summer… Walt McGough’s Chalk is included in the Lark […]