In September, past MCC fellows/finalists venture into imagined flora, faraway lands, outer space, the impermanent, the temporary, and the nearly not. (For starters.) And now, we venture into our monthly round-up of the news of past awardees of our Artist Fellowships Program. Karen Aqua (Film & Video Fellow '11) will be honored by the Institute of Contemporary … [Read more...]
Plays All Day
Since 1999, the Boston Theater Marathon (May 21-22, 2011) has been like a day-long birthday party for new plays, thrown in vigorously good spirits by a game New England theater community. In 2009, the festival's winning model - 50 short plays performed by 50 theater companies in one day at the Boston Center for the Arts - was augmented with the Warm-up Laps, a slate of free … [Read more...]
The Community
Recently, Playwriting Fellow Peter Snoad ('09) mapped out the terrain for new play productions for local playwrights. One of the tips he gave was to get involved in the local community of new play-makers. This is prime advice for artists of any discipline. In our just-published Q&A with Gigi Rosenberg, author of The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing, the author encourages … [Read more...]
Guest Blogger: Peter Snoad
Recently, Peter Snoad (Playwriting Fellow '09) had a highly successful run of his new play... nearly 1,000 miles from here. We've invited Peter to guest blog about the experience, as well as the trials and tribulations of bringing a new play to the stage, be it here in Massachusetts or elsewhere on the map. A Time of 'Crisis' "So when is it going to be done here?" That's … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Jan 11
Here's the latest installment of Fellows Notes, the current news of past fellows/finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. From the looks of it, the new year will be rich with great art! Peter Brown (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '06) reads from his new short story collection A Bright Soothing Noise at Brookline Booksmith, on Tuesday, January 11, 7 PM. The … [Read more...]