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, […]
More great news from KCACTF
Second-year MFA playwright Eliana Pipes has been named the recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship. The award, given annually, is based on a student playwright’s body of work. Congratulations!
Pipes awarded AMPAS fellowship
Second-year playwright Eliana Pipes was awarded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, a $35,000 grant for her first feature film, a comedy titled Fauxricua. Congratulations!
Big awards for Pipes and Lopez
With all the activity surrounding Boston Theater Marathon XXI, it’s been busy around here! And there’s even more to celebrate: While we were wrapping up the BTM (May 19), current MFA playwright Eliana Pipes was at the Lilly Awards ceremony in NYC, where she received the 2019 Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers for […]
Voices of BTM XXI: Eliana Pipes
Tell us a little about your play. Stiletto Envy follows Shaun and Melanie, two childhood friends who reunite for a secret meeting in their senior year of high school. I’ll do my best not to spoil the twist, but when the meeting takes an unexpected turn, Melanie is forced to reconcile the fact that her […]
News from KCACTF
Third-year MFA playwright Kira Rockwell was a second place recipient of the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting for her play The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood (produced here last October). The award, presented by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, recognizes the outstanding student-written play that celebrates diversity and concerns issues of gender and sexuality. […]
Exciting news from Region 1
Three first-year MFA playwrights are Region 1 finalists for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. From left: Eliana Pipes (Snow Brown and the 7 Stereotypes) and Ally Sass (Late Night at the Serpent) are finalists for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, and Cayenne Douglass (Variable Rates of Kindness) is a finalist […]