Laura Neill

Neill’s ‘Funtown’ in San Antonio

Break a leg to playwright alum Laura Neill and students at San Antonio’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy as they embark on the University Interscholastic League’s One-Act Play contest (in which similarly-sized Texas high schools are adjudicated on their presentation of an 18-40 minute play) with Laura’s Funtown!

Dohrn and Neill headed to the O’Neill

Playwright alums Zayd Dohrn and Laura Neill are headed to the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center! The O’Neill’s founding program presents eight new works this summer season by a broad mix of brand new, mid-career, and established artists. The plays were chosen from 1,416 plays received through the O’Neill’s open submissions process. […]

Alums selected for SpeakEasy’s Boston Project

Alumni playwrights MJ Halberstadt and Laura Neill have been selected from among 40 applicants to develop an original Boston-centric play as part of SpeakEasy Stage Company’s The Boston Project. They will join returning Boston Project playwright Phaedra Michelle Scott. The three Boston Project playwrights will each receive a commission and have nine months to write […]