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Good on ya!

Great news from Laura Harrington (Playwriting/New Theater Works Fellow ‘97, ‘05). She won a Kleban Award for most promising librettist from New Dramatists (funded by the Kleban Foundation).

This after a well-received run of her musical Crossing Brooklyn this past fall and an upcoming production of Alice Unwrapped, both at NYC venues. (Check out some of her earlier work, hosted on our Gallery at MCC.)

For more news of fellows and finalists, check out the Artist Fellows Notes.

The Boston Theater Marathon takes place this weekend (May 11), and a handful of past Playwriting/New Theater Works fellows & finalists have compressed the big stuff of theater into miniature forms. Ten-minute plays by William Donnelly (Fellow ‘05), Deborah Fortson (Fellow ‘05), Monica Raymond (Finalist ‘07), and Leslie Harrell Dillen (Finalist ‘01) will appear alongside works by Robert Brustein, Ed Bullins, Israel Horowitz, and Theresa Rebeck during the daylong festival. The event fits 50 plays by New England playwrights into a 10-hour theater-fest. You buy a pass, then come and go as you please.

Incidentally, for an interesting discussion about ten-minute plays and their role in contemporary theater, check out this online roundtable discussion, hosted by Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis.

Image: Paul Weiner’s “All the World’s a Stage” (2002), Cibachrome print, 16″ x 20.”