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.
Lopez’s ‘Black Beans Project’ receives Outstanding New Script at Norties
Congratulations to playwright alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor Melinda Lopez, who won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script (with co-writer Joel Perez) for Huntington Theatre Company’s Black Beans Project!
Lopez’s ‘Mala’ at The Old Globe
Happy opening to Mala, written and performed by playwright alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor Melinda Lopez (through June 12), produced by The Old Globe!
Lopez’s ‘Young Nerds’ at URT
Happy first performance to Young Nerds of Color, arranged by Melinda Lopez, produced by Underground Railway Theater (through March 20)!
Lopez’s ‘Mr. Parent’ at Lyric Stage
Happy opening to the world premiere of Melinda Lopez’s Mr. Parent, produced by Lyric Stage (through Feb. 6)!
Lopez’s ‘Black Beans’ streaming at HTC
Happy opening to Melinda Lopez’s Black Beans Project (co-written by and co-starring Joel Perez), streaming on demand at Huntington Theatre Company. See it online through May 30!
Lopez’s ‘Mr. Parent’ at TheaterWorks Hartford
Happy opening (last Sunday) to Melinda Lopez, whose Mr. Parent is streaming on-demand as part of The WORKshop Series at TheaterWorks Hartford. See it online through March 26!
Lopez’s ‘Yerma’ opens tonight
Congratulations to Melinda Lopez and Huntington Theatre Company on this opening night of Yerma…which runs through June 30!
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 […]
Workshop on inclusive theatre
Last week, Melinda Lopez’s CAS EN 519—Experiments with Character and Form class focused on creating inclusive theatre.