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 […]
Play by Eddy in SF OOB Short Play Festival
Happy opening to Big Red Button, by third-year playwright Jay Eddy, which runs this week at NYC’s Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Additional shout outs to past Boston Theater Marathon playwrights R.D. Murphy and Alex Moon, who also have plays in the Festival!
Eddy’s ‘Driving in Circles’ wins Rodgers Award
Second-year playwright Jay Eddy’s Driving in Circles is one of two works named as a winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2022 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater. Richard Rodgers, who was elected to the Academy in 1955, endowed these awards in 1978 to nurture talented composers and playwrights by enabling their […]
Wonderful news from KCACTF
The work of two second-year MFA playwrights has been recognized this year by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF): Jay Eddy’s play Driving in Circles has been awarded the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, and is a co-recipient of the KCACTF Musical Theatre Award. The piece was also recognized with Distinguished Achievement in […]