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:

Richard Snee opens in the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Macbeth tomorrow (note the badass poster art to the left), at the Chevalier Theatre in Medford…

Graffiti Productions will open Ronan Noone’s The Atheist across the pond next month, at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, a fringe venue in Kentish Town, north London…

Farmer’s Almanac: Molly Smith Metzler on kale, and the other things she worked on during her time at SPACE on Ryder Farm…

Ginger Lazarus writes about her Playdate with The Embryos on the Fresh Ink blog…

Alumni news, in brief:

Barlow, I totally stole your photo. I just up and took it. LYLAS! (And thanks.)

Ourmageddon, co-written by Ginger Lazarus, made the cut: The short will be one of the featured films at  tomorrow night's 48 Hour Film Project Best of Boston 2012 screening at Kendall Square Cinema…

Walt McGough’s Source Festival play Exposure “makes a brief but strong statement about dignity and bravery“ according to D.C.'s Washington City Paper…

Alumni news, in brief:

Walt McGough

Walt McGough is DOUBLY nominated in the IRNE Awards' Best New Play, Small Theater category for The Farm (BPT) and Priscilla Dreams the Answer (Fresh Ink Theatre). Walt's short play Exposure will be part of this summer's Source Festival of new work in Washington D.C...

John Kuntz's Elliot Norton Award-winning (and IRNE-nominated -- Best New Play, Small Theater) The Hotel Nepenthe is on the calendar for this summer's Emerging America Festival...

Melinda Lopez's Sonia Flew gets off the ground later this week at Cal State Long Beach. Closer to home, Melinda's newest play, Becoming Cuba, is part of the Huntington's Theatre's Breaking Ground reading series on March 13 -- RSVP here...

Karmo Sanders' Birdie Googins: Accidentally Maine's only Supermodel & Possible Future Queen is now available on DVD. Take a look at a sample here...

Catch Werner Trieschmann read on Tales from the South on March 6...

Richard Snee and Steve Barkhimer will appear in Round and Round the Garden, the third installment of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests trilogy, this summer at Gloucester Stage Company...

Love-filled alumni news, in brief:

Monica Bauer's Off-Broadway bound My Occasion of Sin was awarded Best New Script at the Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards, and her Made For Each Other was accepted to the Edinburgh Free Fringe...

Joyce Van Dyke's Deported/a dream play -- which opens on Mar. 8 -- is on the list of The Boston Globe's Critic's Picks...

Great review of Molly Smith Metzler's Elemeno Pea, now playing at South Coast Rep, right here...

Blood Rose Rising (co-written by Steve Barkhimer) opens Feb. 17 at the Davis Square Theatre, and Will Fancher's The River Was Whiskey opens at Middle Tennessee State University on Feb. 16...

Our Girl in Trenton, by Cliff Odle, will be part of Central Square Theatre's PlayPen Readings on Feb. 27...

Richard Snee will appear in the world premiere of Boston Children's Theatre's Reflections of a Rock Lobster Mar. 3-11...

The curtain will come down on the Broadway production of Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly on Feb. 26. Get tickets...

MJ Halberstadt reflects on the KCACTF Region 1 experience on his blog, and you can watch Colleen Hughes' KCACTF entry The Button here...

Alumni news, in brief:

The Actors' Shakespeare Project's The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Steve Barkhimer, opens next week, and also features the talents of Richard Snee...

Jonesing for a Priscilla update (as in the upcoming Fresh Ink production of Walt McGough's Priscilla Dreams the Answer, featuring Emily Kaye Lazzaro)? Check out the show's production blog...

The cast of Zayd Dohrn's Outside People (a co-production of NYC's Naked Angels and the Vineyard Theatre, opening in previews Dec. 21) has been announced, and rehearsals have begun...

Alumni news, in brief:

Anna Renée Pattison has served this summer as an assistant teaching artist for Underground Railway Theater’s Youth Underground, which has its final presentation this week (August 10 and 11) – a staged reading of Money Matters, an original play created to illustrate the emotions and experiences that people have around money. Admission is FREE, but call (617) 576-9278 x210 to reserve tickets ahead of time…

Emily Kaye Lazzaro and K. Alexa Mavromatis have plays opening in Chicago this week, as part of Gorilla Tango Theatre’s 4x2, a collection of short plays and one-acts that examine relationships between men and women…

Alums John Greiner-Ferris, Jess Martin and Richard Snee will all have work in Mill 6’s third incarnation of The T Plays this weekend, as will Rick Park, who starts the playwriting program at BU this fall…

Colleen Hughes and Emily Kaye Lazzaro are off to Playwrights’ Commons’ Freedom Art retreat in Rockhouse Mountain, New Hampshire! Follow the adventures of the entire group of theatre artists on Twitter @PwritesCom and here…

Steve Barkhimer on the Adventurous Life

Steve Barkhimer

Revered Boston actor (currently appearing with fellow BPT alum Richard Snee in Alan Ayckbourn's Living Together at Gloucester Stage), director and alumni playwright Steven Barkhimer talks to us amid a hundred projects. We caught up with him on email. 

What are you working on now?
I’ve been enlisted to help create a set of shows, three of which previewed as workshop productions in April and May 2011. Ben Evett, who started the Actors Shakespeare Project, had an idea for a theatre event, a sort of mini-series, which would be neither a fixture like Shear Madness nor simply an open-ended soap-opera. The hope, of course, is to have a number of shows, each of which stands independently and is satisfying in itself, but would spark an interest in seeing the whole series.

I’m working, incrementally, on writing and re-writing several other plays, including one for which the Massachusetts Cultural Council kindly granted me an Artist Fellowship Award. That one is fancifully autobiographical; among the others are a historical drama in verse and song, one is more brooding American-mythic, another is science-as-performance-piece; another is an adaptation of ancient classic from India -- I'll spend six weeks of my summer in India, in fact, trying to enlist some reliable assistance on that.

I’m slated to appear in, and provide music for, a production of Twelfth Night for the Actors Shakespeare Project this fall and will direct The Merry Wives of Windsor for them in the winter. Very exciting.