Rockwell wins ATHE Playwriting Award
Kira Rockwell is the 2019 recipient of The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award for her play The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood. Congratulations!
News from KCACTF
Third-year MFA playwright Kira Rockwell was a second place recipient of the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting for her play The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood (produced here last October). The award, presented by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, recognizes the outstanding student-written play that celebrates diversity and concerns issues of gender and sexuality. […]
Rockwell’s ‘Girlhood’ awarded top prize in Bechdel Test Fest 2.0
Third-year MFA playwright Kira Rockwell’s The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood has been awarded top prize in The Bridge Initiative: Women in Theatre’s second Bechdel Test Fest! The play was BPT’s season opener last fall. Congratulations!
Rockwell’s ‘Girlhood’ bows in LA
Our season opener, current MFA playwright Kira Rockwell’s The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood, has its West Coast premiere tonight produced by Los Angeles-based Third Culture Theatre with Palms Up Academy. The play runs through Dec 16. Congratulations!
Loss reverberates through teen lives in ‘The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood’
Review from The Boston Globe The title is overly melodramatic and so is the play at times, but Kira Rockwell gets a lot of things right in “The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood.’’ Rockwell’s jolting and urgent new work, which features a diverse and passionately committed young cast at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, focuses on four teenage […]
Playwright Kira Rockwell on ‘The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood’ (part 2)
Part two of production dramaturg Eliana Pipes’ conversation with The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood playwright Kira Rockwell about her play, writing, process, and what’s next. On the cover page [of the script], you call The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood a poetic drama; how do you see the role of poetry in this piece? I am […]
Playwright Kira Rockwell on ‘The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood’ (part 1)
Production dramaturg Eliana Pipes talked with The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood playwright Kira Rockwell about her play, writing, process, and what’s next. What is the genesis of ‘The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood’? Before moving to Boston to pursue my MFA in playwriting, I was working in the recreation department at a youth residential care facility […]