Alumni productions at C1 and BC
Congratulations to… …playwright alums J.C. Pankratz and Eliana Pipes, members of Company One’s Season 24 PlayLab Circuit Surge Lab, whose short plays are part of Company One’s digital event In Community We Trust. One night only—watch party tonight, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. (Playwright alum Cliff Odle also performs in one of the featured plays!) […]
Friendly faces
Adjunct Assistant Professor (and playwright alum) Melinda Lopez crossed paths with playwright alum Eliana Pipes at The Old Globe last week at the Powers New Voices Festival. Both had readings of plays-in-progress during the event—The Black Beans Project and Unf*ckwithable—respectively.
Pipes’ ‘Dream Hou$e’ published by Samuel French
Playwright alum Eliana Pipes’ Dream Hou$e (which had its world premiere in 2022 as a triple co-production at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut, and Baltimore Center Stage), has been published by Concord Theatricals’ Samuel French imprint. Congratulations, Eliana!
Pipes’ ‘¡Nails!’ official selection for upcoming fests
Playwright alum Eliana Pipes’s animated short ¡Nails! is an official selection for LA’s Outfest and the NALIP Media Summit showcase!
It Was the 90s: ‘Lorena: A Tabloid Epic’
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — Lorena: A Tabloid Epic by Eliana Pipes re-examines the public spectacle that was the 1993 Bobbitt trial. Lorena (Bobbitt) Gallo’s voice wasn’t heard then. It takes center stage now. The 90s were a mess. One of the biggest messes was the Bobbitt trial. Lorena Bobbitt was […]
On set: ‘LORENA’
Rehearsals for our 2021-22 season opener, Eliana Pipes’s LORENA: a Tabloid Epic, begin tonight and the set is already well underway! These photos are from earlier this week.
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!
KCACTF honors for Pipes and Wien
Third-year playwright Eliana Pipes’s DREAM HOU$E is the recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s (KCACTF) 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, and an offer of publication from Samuel French. First-year […]
BPT Talks About Design: a tiny q&a with INCELS… and LORENA director Erica Terpening-Romeo
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 Eliana Pipes
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, […]