New Rep's Festival of New Voices kicks off Sunday 5/19

Gabridge | Mavromatis | Girard | Floyd

This season, I've had the great fortune of being a playwriting fellow at New Rep alongside fellow BPT alums Peter Floyd and Deirdre Girard, and my Rhombus pal (and BTM vet) Patrick Gabridge. Together with New Rep Associate Artistic Director Bridget O'Leary, who founded the program, we have met every three weeks to discuss the progress of each others' plays. It's been an amazing journey for all of us and this week we will share our progress with you. Join us if you can!

I asked each of my fellow fellows to share a little bit about their plays (including goals for their readings) with you here...

Halberstadt's Da Vinci opens tonight

Can't Wait Productions' production of MJ Halberstadt's The Da Vinci Commission opens tonight at the Erick Jean Center for the Arts in Dorchester. Congrats, MJ!

Winning trio

A trio of Boston KCACTF winners at last month's National Festival in Washington, D.C.: Rick Park (L) won the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting for Gay Guy, Fat Girl; Lesley University's Lisa Kenner Grissom (C) won the National Ten-Minute Play Award for Tattoo You; and Michael Parsons (R) won the Rosa Parks and the John Cauble Playwriting Awards for his play Homeland and one-act The Lighthouse. All three of these fabulous writers also had short plays in last weekend's Boston Theater Marathon XV (including Lisa's winning play).

Alumni news, in brief:

Zayd Dohrn's Long Way Go Down opens this week (May 17) at the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles, in a production by its professional company, the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater...

The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarías opens at Horizon Theatre in Atlanta May 16...

New plays by Peter Floyd, Deirdre Girard, K. Alexa Mavromatis (whose play features fellow alum Steven Barkhimer), and BTM vet Patrick Gabridge -- this season's New Voices @ New Rep Playwriting Fellows -- will be read next week in New Rep's Festival of New Voices...

The Farm by Walt McGough (which was part of our 2011-12 season) will open at Stony Point, NY's Penguin Rep in September...

Read about Werner Trieschmann's recent project with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic...

BTM XV -- thank you!

Thank you to everyone -- onstage and off -- who contributed to the success (and fun!) of Boston Theater Marathon XV. We hope you had as great a time as we did. See you next year!