Alumni news, in brief:

Melinda Lopez

Melinda Lopez is one of 14 playwrights nationwide selected to receive a three-year playwriting residency, part of a new initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Melinda will begin her residency at The Huntington this summer; check out the article from yesterday’s Boston Globe for details, including a complete list of playwrights – Masha Obolensky’s sister Kira is also on the list…

Opening this weekend: Acme Theater’s New Works Winter Festival, featuring plays by Peter Floyd (Love, Billy Bunny), Rick Park (Santer Baby), and BTM vets galore…

Deirdre Girard’s play Dance for Fiona will be read as part of The North Shore Readers Theatre Collaborative’s monthly reading series at the Actors Studio of Newburyport on Jan. 12…

MJ Halberstadt’s The Da Vinci Commission opens Jan. 12 at Cambridge’s Gallery 263…

K. Alexa Mavromatis’ play Bone China is included in the new edition of the college textbook Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (David Starkey, Bedford/St. Martin’s)…