Voices of BTM XXV: Kate Snodgrass
Tell us a little about your play. The play is about three brothers in New Hampshire on July 4th while they’re waiting for their father to return from a hunting trip (an illegal one, by the way—although that’s not germane to the story). Their mother is downstairs weeping into the jello salad, and the play […]
Voices of BTM XXV: Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens
Tell us a little about your play. A 22-year old Iranian-American named Mahsa writes a song—a war song, a song of grief, an attempt at making sense of the senseless. Is it enough? What made you want to tell this story? On September 16th, 2022, Mahsa Amini “mysteriously” died in a hospital after being taken […]
Voices of BTM XXV: L.W. Lucas Hasten
Tell us a little about your play. Two squirrels discuss the loss of a tremendous stash of pine cones they had stored in the ceiling of a house that was removed during a home renovation; in a fit of anger and desperation, one reveals a terrible secret. What made you want to tell this story? […]
Voices of BTM XXV: Jamie Lin
Tell us a little about your play. Bee, Plus One is the story of a Taiwanese-American family coming together shortly before the older daughter’s wedding. Bee (the younger sister) uses this opportunity to finally tell her parents not only that she’s bringing a date to the wedding, but (spoiler alert!) that her date is a […]
Plays and theatre companies of BTM XXV
Boston Theater Marathon XXV will be held on Sunday, May 7 at BPT. Details to come!
Plays and playwrights of BTM XXV
Al Pals by Allison Fradkin At the Door by Hannah Baker Bee, Plus One by Jamie Lin Birders Flock to Kentucky by Cassie M. Seinuk Bookshop by Dallas Coggins-Tuttle
Kearnan’s ‘3247’ KCACTF Region 1 finalist
First-year playwright Maggie Kearnan’s short play 3247 is a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 1 Finalist for the National Ten-Minute Play Award. Congratulations, Maggie!
Alumni productions at C1 and BC
Congratulations to… …playwright alums J.C. Pankratz and Eliana Pipes, members of Company One’s Season 24 PlayLab Circuit Surge Lab, whose short plays are part of Company One’s digital event In Community We Trust. One night only—watch party tonight, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. (Playwright alum Cliff Odle also performs in one of the featured plays!) […]
Park wins monologue prize
Playwright alum Rick Park was honored with the Most Unforgettable Character Prize at the 2022 Hear Me Out Monologue Competition for his monologue “Sometimes, In Our Own Story, We Are the Victim, Sometimes the Martyr, Sometimes the Villain.” Congratulations, Rick! Here it is, performed by Caroline Lawton:
Neill’s ‘Funtown’ published by YouthPLAYS
Playwright alum Laura Neill’s one-act Funtown is now published by YouthPLAYS. Congratulations, Laura!