Join us this Sunday to get in on The Ground Floor with BPT's current MFAs

Spring has sprung, and that means it's time to see what the current class of MFA playwrights has in the works. This Sunday, April 28, at 6 p.m., The Ground Floor New Play Series will feature 30-minute excerpts of five new plays-in-progress. The reading is free and open to the public, and will be right here at BPT. 

Details about the line-up of plays are below. Join us!


Tough Love by Danyele Brickner
Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Featuring Evelyn Howe
Lights up. Young woman enters dragging dead body. It's not what you think. Or is it? Danyele Brickner brings humor and grit to this unusual coming of age story.

Elephants by Will Carter
Directed by Jeremy Johnson
Featuring Bill Mootos
Paul Manley loves the wrong person. Every time. Will Carter investigates the troubling nature of obsession and devotion: In a world created by a loving and forgiving God, who is to blame when things go terribly wrong?

Current MFAs Brownell and Brickner in the Black Box

Whatcha doin' Tuesday? Current MFA playwrights Stephanie Brownell and Danyele Brickner have plays featured in Writers at the Black Box -- which features students from across the creative writing disciplines -- here at BPT.

Here’s a little bit about their work:

Stephanie’s ten-minute play Eskimo Pie explores the space in which we deal with depression. While Rena explores the language of the inside, her sister and husband explore their own needs for support and validation in conflict with the demands of their relationships.

In Danyele’s White Girl Problems, college seniors Ashley, Megan, and Mary Kate discuss race with uncertainty as white people when Ashley is invited to their school’s Multicultural Recognition Ceremony.