Alumni news, in brief:

Peter Floyd’s award-winning play Absence – one of the finalists in the 2013 Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition – will be read at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta on Feb. 5, part of the annual festival celebrating the competition’s top plays…

The next play in the Munroe Saturday Nights reading series is Widow’s Walk by Deirdre Girard (directed by Melinda Lopez), at Lexington’s Munroe Center for the Arts on Feb. 2…

Steve Barkhimer will next hit the stage in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Will Eno’s Middletown…

Karen Zacarías talks about her new adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence…