Alumni news, in brief:

Brian Tuttle's August and Autumn begins its second (and final) week tomorrow in Vagabond Theatre's production, right here at BPT...

Back by popular demand: Karen Zacarías' The Book Club Play is slated for a return engagement at Atlanta's Horizon Theatre Company, where the play was a massive hit last season...

"not Jenny" by MJ Halberstadt opens Dec. 6, produced by Bridge Repertory Theater. Read the feature from last week's Boston Globe!

Lots of BPT (and BTM) alums will be represented in next month's Boston One-Minute Play Festival: Steven Barkhimer, Peter M. Floyd, Deirdre Girard, John Greiner-Ferris, MJ Halberstadt, Heather Houston, Colleen Hughes, Dan Hunter, Ginger Lazarus, Emily Kaye Lazzaro, Walt McGough, K. Alexa Mavromatis, Matt Mayerchak, Cliff Odle, Rick Park, Payne Ratner, Karmo Sanders, John Shea, Donna Sorbello and Joyce Van Dyke will all contribute plays to this annual event, now in its third year...

Alumni news, in brief:

Read (and listen) about Karen Zacarías' new play, Just Like Us (based on Helen Thorpe's book), which is playing to sold out houses in Denver...

Check out Will Fancher's new writing project -- to write one new song each week for a year -- and make a request (I'm going to!)...

Cliff Odle is one of the producers and organizers of UMass Boston's The Emancipated Century, staged readings of all ten plays in August Wilson's Century Cycle. Take a look at the project's Web site for a full schedule of readings and related events. Next up is Jitney on Nov. 18, right here at BPT...

Wes Savick's new play FAB! or whatever opens at Suffolk University's Modern Theatre this Thursday...

Alumni news, in brief:

The world premiere of Karen Zacarías' Just Like Us (based on the book by Helen Thorpe) opens at the Denver Center Theatre Company on Oct. 4...

Central Square Theater will host a reading of Dan Hunter's latest play, Black Cat, on Oct. 1...

Monica Bauer's solo show The Year I Was Gifted opens in NYC -- part of Stage Left Studios' Women at Work Festival -- this weekend...

Steve Barkhimer hits the stage this week in Ginger Lazarus' Burning here at BPT, days before putting on his playwright hat for his own show Windowmen...

Kate Snodgrass will appear in Sleeping Weazel's The Madness of Small Worlds (in the short play Wrench by Elana Greenfield) at The Paramount Center next month...

Alumni news, in brief:

A nice review of Karen Zacarías' The Book Club Play at Atlanta's Horizon Theatre...

Monica Bauer's Porter's Will is on the bill of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Reading Series on June 8...

Ginger Lazarus contributed to the scripts of not one, but two films (Love Hurts and Behind the Scenes of Love Hurts) selected for the "Best Of" night at this year's Boston 48 Hour Film Project on June 11...

Ronan Noone was part of this year's Dorset Theatre Festival Writers Retreat (hosted by Theresa Rebeck, in collaboration with The Lark New Play Development Center)...

Underground Railway Theater's Distracted (directed by Wes Savick) is a Boston Globe Critics' Pick...

Walt McGough offers a .gif to the world (well, three of them, to be exact)...

Alumni news, in brief:

A preview of Monica Bauer's The Maternal Instinct, which bows at the Brighton Fringe tomorrow...

Molly Smith Metzler on the origins of Close Up Space, which plays at Houston's Main Street Theater through June 16...

Karen Zacarías was the opening keynote speaker at the One Theatre World conference earlier this month. In this Q&A, Karen talks a little about her early inspirations, upcoming projects, and why she'd like to have a glass of wine with Marlo Thomas (Can I come too?)...

Work by Zayd Dohrn (and wife Rachel DeWoskin) is included in the current issue of 236...

Chicago's Sideshow Theatre Company (for which Walt McGough is literary manager) is one of four theatres selected for the inaugural class of the Victory Gardens Theater's Resident Theater Program...

Alumni news, in brief:

Zayd Dohrn's Long Way Go Down opens this week (May 17) at the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles, in a production by its professional company, the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater...

The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarías opens at Horizon Theatre in Atlanta May 16...

New plays by Peter Floyd, Deirdre Girard, K. Alexa Mavromatis (whose play features fellow alum Steven Barkhimer), and BTM vet Patrick Gabridge -- this season's New Voices @ New Rep Playwriting Fellows -- will be read next week in New Rep's Festival of New Voices...

The Farm by Walt McGough (which was part of our 2011-12 season) will open at Stony Point, NY's Penguin Rep in September...

Read about Werner Trieschmann's recent project with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic...

Alumni news, in brief:

Lots to look forward to in the way of alumni productions this spring and summer…and beyond. Here’s a round-up (by no means all-inclusive, of course):

John Greiner-Ferris’ Plank will get “Fresh Produce-d” by NYC’s The Glass Eye on April 18…

Can’t Wait Productions will present MJ Halberstdt’s The DaVinci Commission in May…

Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space opens at Houston’s Main Street Theater on May 23…

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:

Demonio at Clybourne Park

The CFA’s production of John Shea’s Erin Go Bragh-less has been honored by KCACTF as a Distinguished Production of a New Work; director Hondo Weiss-Richmond was recognized as a Distinguished Director of A New Play; and the cast and crew were honored as a Distinguished Performance and Production Ensemble…

Michael Parsons’ one-act The Lighthouse is a finalist for KCACTF’s John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short play…

Don’t miss Company One’s XXPlayLab Festival this weekend, featuring discussion panels and readings of new work by Lydia Diamond and BPT friends Kirsten Greenidge and Natalia Naman…

Alumni news, in brief:

Lots of BPT love in the 2013 IRNE nominations last weekend: Jaclyn Villano’s The Company We Keep (Best New Play, Small Theatre); Molly Trainer (Best Costume Design, Small Theatre, for Deported/a dream play); Steven Barkhimer for his work onstage (Best Supporting Actor – Musical, Small/Mid-size Theatre) and off (Best Music Director, Small/Mid-size Theatre) in Stoneham Theatre’s Lumberjacks in Love; Melinda Lopez (Best Supporting Actress – Drama, Small/Mid-size Theatre) for The Motherf**ker With the Hat at Speakeasy Stage; and Rick Park (Best Supporting Actor – Drama, Small/Mid-size Theatre) for Company One’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo…

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…

Alumni news, in brief:

Mark your calendars for Jan. 5-7! Lots of alums have contributed brand new one-minute plays to debut in the second annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival. In fact, most of the playwrights have some sort of connection to BPT -- take a look: Liz Duffy Adams, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Steven Bogart, Michael Bradford, Elisabeth Burdick, Elenor Burgess, Bill Doncaster, Thom Dunn, Stephen Faria, Peter Floyd, Patrick Gabridge, Deirdre Girard, Kirsten Greenidge, David Valdes Greenwood, Israel Horovitz, Colleen M. Hughes, Dan Hunter, Obehi Janice, Lila Rose Kaplan, Ginger Lazarus, Emily Kaye Lazzaro, Christopher Lockheardt, K. Alexa Mavromatis, Grant MacDermott, Walt McGough, James McLindon, Tyler Monroe, Nina Louise Morrison, Mwalim *7, Natalia Naman, Jack Neary, Rick Park, Lindsay Soson, Noah Tobin, Ken Urban, Joyce Van Dyke, and Jaclyn Villano. See you there…

Alumni news, in brief:

Plays by Melinda Lopez (Bad Santa, co-written with Maxine Lopez-Keough) and Michael Towers (The Contender) will be featured in An Evening of Theatre and Poetry on Dec. 8, at Lexington's Munroe Center for the Arts, part of its Munroe Saturday Nights series of events…

Lifers by Chicky and Guy (Maureen Cornell and our own John Shea) is part of Argo Productions' Triple Play: New Work Weekends Dec. 7-9, at BPT...

A new play by Karen Zacarías, Just Like Us (based on the best-seller by Helen Thorpe), will bow at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s 8^th Annual Colorado New Play Summit Feb. 8-10…

Rick Park’s Go to Helen Hunt for It (part of Boston Theater Marathon XII) will be on the bill of February’s Snowdance Comedy Festival in Racine, WI…

Coppin State University’s Coppin Repertory Theatre continued its 2012-13 season with Lydia Diamond’s Harriet Jacobs Nov. 16-19…

Alumni news, in brief:

Cliff Odle is “equal parts cuddly and calculating” in the New Rep production of David Mamet’s Race…

“I never forgot what it’s like to be 10” – Karen Zacarías on playwriting, to the Orlando Sentinel. Her play Chasing George Washington (with music by Deborah Wicks La Puma) is onstage at Orlando Repertory Theatre until Nov. 18…

Leslie Dillen is opening the THEATERWORK (in Santa Fe, NM) season as Dorothea in Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynary…

Another kind of storytelling: Narrative designer Jonathon Myers talks to Gamasutra about adapting Games of Thrones: Ascent for Facebook…

Alumni news, in brief:

The Underground Railway Theater production of Wes Savick’s Car Talk: The Musical!!! (music by Michael Wartofsky) has been extended a second time, and will play at Central Square Theater until Sept. 16…

Karmo Sanders returned to Alaska – where her show Gold Rush Girls (music by Jerry Sanders) wrapped up its sold-out six-week run at Cyrano’s Theatre Company on Sept. 2 – to help direct a concert version of the show that will run on Alaska Public Broadcasting during the station’s pledge week this fall…

Alumni news, in brief:

Demonio at Private Lives

In July, Peter M. Floyd’s The Centipede King will be developed at the Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights' Workshop…

The Red Sox are coming: Rick Park’s Please Report Any Suspicious Activity (produced in BTM XI) and The Quiz by K. Alexa Mavromatis will be part of ArtsCenter Stage’s annual Ten By Ten in the Triangle festival of short plays July 6-22. Peter Snoad’s Perfect Strangers (part of BTM XIII) is also on the bill…

The casting announcement for Car Talk: The Musical!!!, which features book, lyrics, and direction by Wesley Savick and original music by Michael Wartofsky...

Lydia Diamond will take part in the McCarter Theatre Center’s 2012 Sallie B. Goodman Artists’ Retreat…

South Coast Rep posted its program for Karen Zacarías’ Jane of the Jungle (music by Deborah Wicks La Puma) online. So cute!

Alumni news, in brief:

Ginger Lazarus, Rick Park -- and a slew of BTM favorites including William Donnelly and Patrick Gabridge -- will ride the rails for this summer's installment of The Mill 6 Collaborative's The T Plays IV: Rush Hour...

John Grenier-Ferris and Peter M. Floyd are on the bill of Hovey Players' Hovey Summer Shorts in July...

Karen Zacarías' Jane of the Jungle (with music by Deborah Wicks La Puma) opens at South Coast Rep on May 25...

BTM not enough? If you need even more short plays in your life, take a listen to the newest additions to the Emerging America Festival's podcast collection, which includes site-specific playlets by Melinda Lopez, Ronan Noone, Kate Snodgrass, and Sinan Ünel...

Alumni news, in brief...grrrl power edition:

Kate Snodgrass and Bruce Ward celebrate
closing weekend of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar

Melinda Lopez will direct Purple Hearts (by Merrill Meadow) as part of Munroe Center for the Arts' Monroe Saturday Nights 2012 season, on May 12...

Here's your chance to meet Leggo and Eggo, if you haven't already: The Embryos by Ginger Lazarus will have a staged reading at The Footlight Club on May 16, the first phase of the play's development cycle with Fresh Ink Theatre. Watch for a full production later this year...

Chasing George Washington, by Karen Zacarías (with music by Debbie Wicks La Puma), is part of Orlando Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 season...

Lydia Diamond is one of an exciting group of incoming Radcliffe Institute Fellows... 

Bone China by K. Alexa Mavromatis will be included in the second edition of the college text Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin's); her Jinxed will be part of Silver Spring Stage's One-Act Festival in August...

Alumni news, in brief:

Michael S. Parsons -- as though he isn't busy enough this week -- has a reading his play Fire Dance at NYC's Cherry Lane Theatre, part of its Tongues reading series...

Peter M. Floyd's Absence is a finalist in the Alliance Theatre Company's Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition...

Take a look behind the scenes at Werner Trieschmann's Mozart: Revealed, performed by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic last weekend... 

Can't Wait's production of Lydia Diamond's The Inside (adapted by Tasia A. Jones) opens this week...

We blog: Walt Mc Gough on Building vs. Excavation; Karen Zacarías on Outstanding New Plays (from DC Theatre Scene); Kira Obolensky (sister of Masha) on her new play and writing with the audience in mind (from Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company's blog, TTT Talks); and Catherine Trieschmann (cousin of Werner) on Parenting & Playwriting: Having It All on HowlRound...

A great reason to venture south of the border (to Rhode Island): This is the final weekend to catch Cliff Odle in Elemental Theatre Collective's Vacancy...

Coverage of the recent Armenian Genocide commemoration at the Massachusetts State House in The Armenian Mirror-Spectator and Armenian Weekly, at which Joyce Van Dyke was honored for Deported/a dream play. In case you missed it, watch it here...

Alumni news, in brief:

Cha Cha and Demonio serenade their friend Clem after Next To Normal. They are not normal, either.

Karen Zacarías' The Book Club Play will be part of the 2012-13 seasons at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park and at Rochester's Geva Theatre Center...

Monica Bauer is preparing for the Edinburgh Fringe (where her Made For Each Other will be part of the line-up) with the fundraiser Monica's Shorts at Urban Stages tonight. Can't make it? Good news: You can also contribute to the project online. And check out a very nice review of Monica's other current project, the off-Broadway production of My Occasion of Sin...