Alumni news, in brief:

Two plays by Monica Bauer -- her one-acts Made for Each Other and The Year I Was Gifted (which she performs) -- are playing at NYC's Stage Left Studio every Friday night through April 4...

Here's John Kuntz in The Whale, which opens at SpeakEasy Stage this week...

News about this summer's Last Frontier Theatre Conference: Jaclyn Villano's The Company We Keep has been invited to be part of the 2014 Play Lab, and Michael Parsons' Sumner Falls has been selected as an alternate...

Karmo Sanders is "back to funny business"...

Alumni news, in brief:

Read about Richard Snee's latest project -- Kurt Vonnegut's Make Up Your Mind -- which opens at the Lyric this week...

Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly has settled in for a run (through Dec. 22) at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company...

Monica Bauer's My Occasion of Sin opens at Detroit Rep on Jan. 9...

Deirdre Girard is one of three Next Voices Fellows at New Rep this season. In the spring, her play Reconsidering Hanna(h) will receive a staged reading as part of the theatre's Next Rep Festival...

Adventures in publishing: The Compass Rose by Ronan Noone has been published by Indie Theatre Now, and Jinxed by K. Alexa Mavromatis is available from Original Works Publishing...

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:

Ronan Noone's new play, The Compass Rose (produced by Fat Violet Theatre), is part of NYC's annual 1st Irish Festival Sept. 12-29...

Molly Smith Metzler's Elemeno Pea plays at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre through Sept. 21...

SL1 12:32 a.m. by K. Alexa Mavromatis was voted Audience Favorite at The T Plays V: Last Call, presented by the Mill 6 Collaborative...

MJ Halberstadt's My Grandson the Power Bottom is the next Ink Spots Staged Reading (presented by Fresh Ink Theatre) on Sept. 4...

John Greiner-Ferris was one of The Glass Eye's August playwrights...

Monica Bauer's solo show The Year I Was Gifted will be presented as part of Stage Left Studio's Women at Work Festival Sept. 23-Oct.5...

Alumni news, in brief:

Necessary Monsters, a new play by John Kuntz, is part of this weekend’s Summer Workshop at the Huntington on July 21…

Plank by John Greiner-Ferris is on the bill of LiveWire Chicago Theatre's VisionFest 5: Johnny 5 is Alive… 

Monica Bauer will perform her solo show The Year I Was Gifted at 59E59's East to Edinburgh festival this weekend, before taking the play across the pond to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August…

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:

Emily Kaye Lazzaro’s Girls’ Sports opens this Friday at the Factory Theatre, produced by Fresh Ink…

Marvelous Fruit, Masha Obolensky’s most recent play, was selected as a PlayPenn finalist this year…

Lots of alums this year on the bill of Boston Theater Marathon XV: Plays by John Kuntz, K. Alexa Mavromatis, Ronan Noone, Rick Park, Michael S. Parsons, Wesley Savick (co-written with Michael Wartofsky), Phil Schroeder, Michael Towers, Sinan Ünel, and Joyce Van Dyke will be featured in the two-day event, May 11-12…

Taking Up Space, by John Greiner-Ferris, is one of seven new works in Provincetown Theater’s 2013 Spring Playwright’s Festival this weekend…

Monica Bauer blogs about Death by Talkback…

Alumni news, in brief:

New plays by Lydia Diamond (Smart People) and Melinda Lopez (Becoming Cuba) will be part of the Huntington Theatre Company's 2013-14 season...

Heather Houston’s Supergravity and the Eleventh Dimension has been announced as Vagabond Theatre Group’s next full production, this July…

John Greiner-Ferris’ play Turtles will be read on March 13 at the Provincetown Theater, part of its Winter Reading Series…

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…

Alumni news, in brief:

Lots of exciting openings this week: Fresh Ink Theatre’s production of The Embryos by Ginger Lazarus (which runs Nov. 30-Dec. 15 at The Factory Theatre); The Bluest Eye by Lydia Diamond (Nov. 29-Dec. 2) at Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies/Sock & Buskin Theatre; Foreverendia by BrianTuttle (Nov. 29-Dec. 23) at The Black Ship Co. in Chicago…

Monica Bauer’s Made For Each Other has been accepted to the 2013 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, which takes place in May…

Next up for John Kuntz is Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Two Gentlemen of Verona…

Kate Snodgrass, on BPT's new MFA...

Alumni news, in brief:

John Kuntz opens this week in the American Repertory Theater production of The Lily’s Revenge by Taylor Mac…

Lydia Diamond was appointed a co-vice president of Theatre Communications Group…

Karmo Sanders’ short play Homer was a finalist for this year’s McLaren Memorial Playwriting Award…

On Oct. 16th, The Naked Stage will present the first public staged reading of Monica Bauer’s new play, Porter's Will, at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in Southampton, Long Island…

Emily Kaye Lazzaro offers her experience of last week’s StageSource soiree, and proclaims “I’m not cool.” For the record, EKL, I disagree…

To scarf, or not to scarf? and much more in MJ Halberstadt’s latest dispatches from Paris…

Alumni news, in brief:

Steve Barkhimer discusses his Blood Rose Rising series of plays (co-created with Ben Evett) and other projects – and even quotes Kate – on ArtSake, the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s blog…

Rick Park has been cast as Tiger in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opens next month at Company One…

All the latest on MJ Halberstadt’s adventures (successful writing AND laundry) in Paris…

Here’s a nice DigBoston article about SpeakEasy’s production of The Mother F**cker with the Hat, featuring Melinda Lopez…

Monica Bauer’s The Maternal Instinct is now available on Indie Theater Now…

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:

The Delicate Art of Customer Service by Cliff Odle is one of two one-acts in New Urban Theatre Laboratory’s It’s a Love Thang, at BPT Sept 6-16…

John Greiner-Ferris’ Greaze – which he’ll also direct – has been selected for The Provincetown Theater’s 2012 Fall Playwrights’ Festival, Sept. 12-15…

Paper City Phoenix by Walt McGough is the next installment in Vagabond Theatre Group’s There Will Be Words new play reading series on Sept. 13…

Alumni news, in brief:

Chicago’s Sideshow Theatre Company – of which Walt McGough is a founding member and literary director – just announced its upcoming season…

Monica Bauer’s Made for Each Other opens tomorrow at the Edinburgh Finge! Hopefully, you’ve been following her adventures (and learning a lot about what’s happening behind-the-scenes) in her Fringe blog for The Huffington Post…

Check out Emily Kaye Lazzaro on the Fresh Ink blog, writing about the workshop of her new play Girls Sports…

The next stop for K. Alexa Mavromatis’ Jinxed is Seoul Players’ Ten Minute Play Festival in South Korea next month. BTM playwright Patrick Gabridge is on the bill as well, with Curse the Darkness…

Alumni news, in brief:

A rave from Theatre is Easy was the ultimate Edinburgh send-off for Monica Bauer’s Made For Each Other – and you can get the lowdown on the Fringe as Monica chronicles her experiences across the pond for The Huffington Post…

It’s official: The dates for Fresh Ink Theatre's production of Ginger Lazarus’ The Embryos have been set for Nov. 30-Dec. 15...

Lydia Diamond’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye will bow this fall at Brown University, a co-production of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Sock & Buskin…

We blog: Read about Sinan Ünel’s experiences in Turkey, and the always-entertaining Emily Kaye Lazzaro on movies, running, and kitties…

Alumni news, in brief:

Jinxed (Photo: Taylor Reynolds)

Gregory Fletcher’s new play Uploaded was part of the Whitley-Moiser Foundation’s Summer Readings 2012 series of new American plays in NYC earlier this month, featuring Michael Learned, June Gable, and Phil Mills. He will also start a new job this fall as Director of Theatre at CUNY Kingsborough Community College…

Molly Smith Metzler’s Elemeno Pea is on the calendar for Mixed Blood Theatre’s 2012-13 season…

The creative team behind K. Alexa Mavromatis’ Jinxed took home seven awards at Looking Glass Theatre’s Spring Writer/Director Forum last month in NYC, including Audience Favorite for week one of the fest and the judges’ award for Best Production (a tie with Regina Robbins’ It’s Just the Radio, also a multiple award-winner)…

A rave review for Monica Bauer’s Made For Each Other…

Underground Railway’s production of Car Talk: The Musical!!! (by Wes Savick, music by Michael Wartofsky) has been extended through Sept. 2…

Alumni news, in brief:

The Change by Peter M. Floyd and Third Time’s a Charm by John Greiner-Ferris are part of Hovey Players’ Summer Shorts 2012, opening this weekend. Also on the bill are BTM vets Steven Bergman, Andrea Fleck Clardy, and Chris Lockheardt, among others…

Emily Kaye Lazzaro on the Fresh Ink blog…

Even before it crosses the pond, Monica Bauer’s Made for Each Other is a ScotsGay Magazine Editor’s Recommendation for the Fringe… Read all about the play on the Indie Theatre Now blog. The play opens in 59E59’s East to Edinburgh Festival this week…

Jinxed, by K. Alexa Mavromatis, is one of ten ten-minute plays selected for Short + Sweet Gold Coast (Queensland, AU) in August…

Read about Jonathon Myers’ current project…

Alumni news, in brief:

Malarkey Films’ Ourmageddon – co-written by Ginger Lazarus – was the recipient of four awards (runner-up for Best Film, Best Use of Music, Best Acting – Ensemble, and Best Use of Line of Dialogue) at last week’s 48 Hour Film Project Best of Boston 2012…

Speaking of films, Peter Tamaribuchi’s Undiscovered Country is in the works. Check out the Indiegogo fundraising page…

The Boston Globe loves Car Talk: The Musical!!! (by Wes Savick, music by Michael Wartofsky)…

Alumni news, in brief:

Enjoy a beer and a play at the reading of Emily Kaye Lazzaro’s Girls Sports tonight at the Landsdowne Pub. The reading is one of the developmental steps leading up to the play’s production at Fresh Ink Theatre Company next spring…

Tickets are now on sale for Monica Bauer’s Made for Each Other at the East to Edinburgh Festival. See the production at NYC’s 59E59 before it goes to Scotland: July 13, 15, 18, and 27…

Werner Trieschmann on William Inge on the Arkansas Repertory Theatre blog…

Wes Savick's Car Talk: The Musical!!! (music by Michael Wartofsky) opens this week at Central Square’s Underground Railway Theater…