{"id":144,"date":"2013-04-08T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=144"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:51:26","slug":"deirdre-girard","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/profile\/deirdre-girard\/","title":{"rendered":"Deirdre Girard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newplayexchange.org\/users\/3280\/deirdre-girard\">DEIRDRE GIRARD<\/a>, who has a passion for creating distinctive stage roles for women, completed her MFA in Playwriting at Boston University. She has had dozens of one-act plays produced nationally and internationally and her first full-length play <em>The Christina Experiment<\/em> was produced by the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, MA. Deirdre was named a 2012\/13 and returning 2013\/14 Playwriting Fellow at New Repertory Theater in Watertown, MA, where she developed <em>Reconsidering Hanna(h)<\/em>, which was produced by Boston Playwrights&#8217; Theatre in 2014. In 2015, Deirdre was selected for the BCA\/Company One Play Labs developmental program and in 2016 for the TWSS program at Central Square Theater. Most recently, she completed a commission from Peabody Essex Museum for two one-act plays inspired by their Wearable Art collection, and had readings of her play <em>Shaken<\/em> in Boston and Chicago. She is the founder of Writers at Play (a Boston University Alumni Playwriting Group), a visiting playwright\/instructor for the Massachusetts Young Playwrights&#8217; Project, an editor for the New England New Play Alliance, a member of numerous theater organizations such as The Dramatists Guild and Stage Source, and co-founder of TideTaken Playwriting Collaborative which operates a 40-seat rehearsal studio available at no cost to North Shore theater organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/144\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}