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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]
Margie Walsh, a lifelong resident of Southie, a blue collar Boston neighborhood, [3] is fired for tardiness from her job as a cashier at a dollar store.A single mother, and knowing that she and her handicapped adult daughter Joyce, "are only a single paycheck away from desperate straits", [4] Margie goes to her old high school boyfriend Mike — now a doctor, but formerly from her neighborhood ...
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]
During the summer of 2020, the company furloughed 46 staff members, laid off 11 people, and eliminated positions. [7] In July, 2020, the company launched a series of miniature audioplays, collectively known as "Dream Boston," challenging local playwrights "to imagine favorite locations, landmarks, and their friends in a future Boston." Critics ...
Kate Snodgrass is an American theater director and playwright. She was the artistic director of Boston Playwrights' Theatre until 2022. [1] [2] [3] She is a professor of the practice of playwriting in the English Department of Boston University. [4] Snodgrass won the 2012 Elliot Norton Award for Excellence. [5]
David Lindsay-Abaire (né Abaire; born November 30, 1969) is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.
David McLaughlin is an American writer, director and producer best known for co-writing the 1998 dramatic film Southie. [1] [2] In 2006 he directed, wrote and produced the independent feature On Broadway. [3] It was based on his upbringing in a neighborhood of Boston and drew from his past experience as a playwright. [4]
John Kuntz is an American actor, playwright, director, and solo performer. Kuntz is the author of 14 full-length plays, a founding company member at Actors' Shakespeare Project, has taught at Emerson College, Suffolk University, and Concord Academy, and is currently an associate professor of theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. [1]