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Megan Sandberg-Zakian succeeded her as BPT's artistic director and playwright Nathan Alan Davis as the head of the MFA Playwriting Program. The building's front theater was subsequently dedicated the Kate Snodgrass Stage; the proscenium-style theater at the rear of the building—BPT's original performance space—is the Derek Walcott Stage.
South Boston has a population of about 33,311. [12] The median age is about 32. [13] The most recent census estimates South Boston's total population at 33,688. The Caucasian population is about 26,700 (79.2%). A total amount of 2,789 (8.3%) Hispanic people is counted. African American population is about 1,926 (5.7%).
Playwrights' Platform is a not-for-profit cooperative organization of playwrights based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The organization has been in existence since 1973 and is "the most established and longest-lived playwrights' group in the area". [1] It was founded by writers Steven Lydenberg, Allen Sternfield, and Saul Zachary. [2]
John Shea (born February 10, 1964, in Somerville, Massachusetts) is an American playwright. [1] [2] Most of his plays are set in his hometown of Somerville, an old industrial suburb of Boston which has gentrified rapidly in the early 21st century. [3]
Other early plays include A Darker Flower (New York's Pocket Theatre), The Trunk and All That Jazz (Boston's Image Theatre), and Die Blum (Germany). [citation needed] He wrote under a variation of his own name (Tim Kelly), and also at least four pseudonyms (Vera Morris, J. Moriarty, Robert Swift, Keith Jackson). His publishers include Samuel ...
Harold Pinter (/ ˈ p ɪ n t ər /; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years.
Marion Adams-Acton (1846–1928, Scotland) Joseph Addison (1672–1719, England) George Ade (1866–1944, United States) Mirza Adeeb (1914–1999, Pakistan) David Adjmi (born 1973, United States) Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BCE, Ancient Greece) Max Afford (1906–1954, Australia) Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov (1904–1941, Russia)
See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights (1766–1839) William Dunlap (1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth (1784–1858) James Nelson Barker (1793–1876) John Neal (1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird (1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad (1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt