In this Three Stages post, Hortense Gerardo discusses her experience as Artist-in-Residence of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, writing and premiering the play The Medfield Anthology despite exceptional challenges. I saw the grounds of the former Medfield State Hospital (MSH) for the first time on Monday, March 4, 2019. It was dusk, and I was brought there by my … [Read more...]
Sari Boren: Exhibiting
Sari Boren (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist '14) writes prose and plays and is an independent museum exhibit developer. She's about to perform her one-woman show Exhibiting at the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education in Lincroft, NJ (Monday, December 2nd, 7 PM), having premiered it at the Newton Theatre Company in April 2019. Here, she discusses … [Read more...]
Amy Merrill: Her Story Is
Cambridge playwright Amy Merrill collaborated with Iraqi artist Elham Nasser Al-Zabeedy to create "The Song Which Has Forgotten to Grow Older," a play with music. The play will be performed twice in June - Friday, June 15, 2018, 7 PM, Atlantic Wharf in Boston and Sunday, June 24, 2018, Arts at the Armory in Somerville - as part of Her Story Is, an evening of performances and … [Read more...]
Nina Louise Morrison: The Greenhouse Playlab
Nina Louise Morrison is one of the four playwrights commissioned to write new plays for The Greenhouse Playlab: A Climate Change Theater Incubator. An excerpt of her new play THE VAULT will be read at the Museum of Science (5/4, 70-10 PM), and there will be a workshop performance at the Democracy Center in Cambridge (5/6, 7 PM). We asked the 2017 Mass Cultural Council … [Read more...]
Three Stages: Stefan Lanfer
In this Three Stages post, Stefan Lanfer explores his play An Education in Prudence, which will premiere in February (Feb 9-24, 2018), produced by Open Theatre Project at St. Johns Church in Jamaica Plain. In February 2015, I was named a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow for early work on my new play, An Education in Prudence. At that point, I had been working on it … [Read more...]