Alumni news, in brief:

Kate Snodgrass will be a featured playwright at this year’s Great Plains Theatre Conference in May, where she will respond to work from playwrights all over the country…

Joyce Van Dyke is one of nine area playwrights selected to receive grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council…

MJ Halberstadt’s A Mother’s Heart and Rick Park’s Laissez les bon Temps Roulez are part of Heart & Dagger’s Such Times: A Sex Fest of Short Original Plays, opening this weekend at BPT…

And that’s just part of MJ’s busy week, as his short play there must ALways be A KAren is one of three plays featured in Interim Writers’ Have You Read? new play series on Mar. 3…

Colleen Hughes on punctuation personalities and the conflict between being a playwright and copyeditor…