Representing at KCACTF
Here’s current MFA—soon to be MFA graduate!—Stephanie K. Brownell with fellow playwright Cassie M. Seinuk (who earned her MFA at Lesley University and is the stage manager for our Boston Theater Marathon) living large at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C. Thanks for the photo, Cassie! Hope you’re having a terrific […]
Playwrights brave Juno aftermath at Region 1!
Playwrights Cassie M. Seinuk (from Lesley University, who is also our BTM stage manager) and our own Abbey Fenbert are taking Hyannis by storm this week [sorry — couldn’t resist that one], at the KCACTF Region 1 Festival. Thanks for the photo, Cassie!
Winning weekend
Current MFAs (and friends!) display their awards on the terrace of the Kennedy Center last weekend. L-R: Lesley University’s Cassie M. Seinuk, NYU’s Nick Carr, and our own Abbey Fenbert and Stephanie Brownell. Not pictured: Steven Barkhimer and Michael Parsons. Congratulations, all! (And thanks for the photo, Steph!)
Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards announced
KCACTF winners past and present at BPT for Peter M. Floyd’s Absence. L-R: Stephanie Brownell, Abbey Fenbert, Peter M. Floyd, John Kuntz and Michael Parsons. (Thanks for the photo, Kate!) Great KCACTF news for current MFA students and alums: Abbey Fenbert’s Intentions was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Michael Parsons’ Sumner Falls […]
KCACTF Region 1 finalists announced
Work by three of our current MFA playwrights will advance to the national-level award competitions at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in Washington, D.C. Line Please by Will Carter and The Sand Beneath the City by Abbey Fenbert will compete for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play. Stephanie Brownell’s Eskimo […]
Alumni news, in brief:
Cliff Odle’s Our Girl in Trenton will be produced as part of the CFA’s New Play Initiative, opening on Oct. 17. The play is also the School of Theatre’s official 2014 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival entry… The Compass Rose by Ronan Noone was nominated for four awards at Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival — Best Play, […]
Weekend festival features plays by Halberstadt, Parsons, and Villano
Forgive me for stating the obvious here, but what an incredible line-up of last season’s KCACTF Region I finalists (including Michael S. Parson’s Cauble Award-winning play) at KNOW Theatre in Binghamton. Congratulations, guys! Fabulous!
Winning trio
A trio of Boston KCACTF winners at last month’s National Festival in Washington, D.C.: Rick Park (L) won the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting for Gay Guy, Fat Girl; Lesley University’s Lisa Kenner Grissom (C) won the National Ten-Minute Play Award for Tattoo You; and Michael Parsons (R) won the Rosa Parks and the […]
Parsons’ ‘The Lighthouse’ wins John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play
Michael Parsons’ The Lighthouse won the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play at last weekend’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The award includes $500, a professional development fellowship, and active membership in The Dramatists Guild. Last month, Michael’s play Homeland was announcedas the winner of this year’s Rosa Parks Playwriting Award for […]
Alumni news, in brief:
The CFA’s production of John Shea’s Erin Go Bragh-less has been honored by KCACTF as a Distinguished Production of a New Work; director Hondo Weiss-Richmond was recognized as a Distinguished Director of A New Play; and the cast and crew were honored as a Distinguished Performance and Production Ensemble… Michael Parsons’ one-act The Lighthouse is […]