Alumni news, in brief:

Walt McGough’s Paper City Phoenix opens this week, produced by Boston Actors Theater…

Ronan Noone and Kate Snodgrass will join Richard Dresser this weekend to respond to ten-minute plays in the annual installment of Salem Theatre Company's Moments of Play. Meanwhile, Ronan’s Brendan will make its West Coast premiere at Theatre Banshee in Los Angeles…

John Greiner-Ferris, Ginger Lazarus, and Emily Kaye Lazzaro are all taking a Mad Dash this weekend with Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Playwrights…

Learn to write a ten-minute play with M. Lynda Robinson, in her four-week workshop at The Gloucester Writers Center…

Alumni news, in brief:

Demonio at The Hunt

Deirdre Girard’s Direct Line is on the bill at Image Theater’s FemNoire Mar. 29-30; also this week, her thesis play The Christina Experiment will be part of Stony Brook University’s Rogue Reading Series…

Gregory Fletcher’s short play The Moon Alone is being produced in the festival Boxers & Briefs by Off-Off-Broadway's Artistic New Directions at Theatre 54 in the Shelter Studios and Theatre, March 27-31. Directed by Troy Miller, it features Leigh Dunham, Lue McWilliams, and Bridget Ori.

M. Lynda Robinson (and actor and casting director extraordinaire Kevin Fennessy) will offer a workshop on Mar. 30, The Business of Acting: Approaching a Career, at Zero Point Theatre Company…

Rick Park’s short play Men on First and Third (formerly Go to Helen Hunt For It, part of BTM XII) was voted “Best in Snow” at the Snowdance 10-Minute Comedy Festival…

Karen Zacarías reflects on her residency at Arena Stage…

Alumni news, in brief:

Donna Sorbello was one in a cast of very familiar faces in ABC's The Makeover, which was filmed in Boston last summer. If you didn't catch it, look for it in re-runs on the Hallmark Channel...

M. Lynda Robinson – and members of her 10-minute play workshop at the Gloucester Writers Center – will present staged readings of new work on Feb 10…

Emily Kaye Lazzaro will next appear onstage in Heart & Dagger’s production of A Dream Play, opening on Feb. 22…

Home at BPT for the holidays

Deborah Lake Fortson, MJ Halberstadt, Colleen Hughes

A few photos from Monday night's annual Holiday Donor Thank-You Party at BPT. What a fun night!

Alumni news, in brief:

It was a sold-out weekend for Joyce Van Dyke's Deported/a dream play! Get your tickets...

M. Lynda Robinson's Wife of Bobbo and Monica Bauer's House Broken are on the bill at Image Theater Company's Femnoire Festival of Women Playwrights, March 30 and 31...

Check out Werner Trieschmann on Tales From the South...

Walt McGough says we playwrights need to make sure the stage directions we include in our scripts belong there in the first place...

Molly Smith Metzler is the recipient of this year's Outstanding Young Alumni Award at SUNY Geneseo...

MJ Halberstadt's one-act w4m will be featured in Boston Actors Theater's Summer Play Festival this July, and his ten-min Peggy's Properties (watch it here) won the "Drunken Judges" Award at StrangeDog Theatre's First Annual Beer Battered Play Festival...

Cliff Odle on Central Square Theater's blog, discussing his latest play Our Girl In Trenton...

K. Alexa Mavromatis' The Quiz will be part of the morning critique group at Our Voices 6 on March 24...

Alumni news, in brief:

A national tour is on the horizon for Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly!... 

M. Lynda Robinson's short play An Egg is an Egg will be on the bill to celebrate SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now) at the 6th annual Our Voices Festival at Regis College on March 24... 

The Provincetown Theatre Company's 16th annual winter reading series will feature John Greiner-Ferris' Highland Center, Indiana on March 28...

Molly Smith Metzler's Carve is part of the Geva Theatre Center's Plays in Progress reading series tonight...

And here's a lovely feature from The Boston Globe about the story behind the story of Joyce Van Dyke's Deported/a dream play, which opens in previews this Thursday!