Meet the Playwrights
Ginger Lazarus is an award-winning playwright whose work has been frequently produced in her native Boston and beyond. Recent projects include A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood, an evening of two one-act plays presented by Spiced Wine Productions; and Mary, a short film based on her stageplay. Her play Matter Familias received an IRNE nomination for Best New Play; other honors include the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for MOCKBA: A Play About Moscow and selection as a ten-minute play finalist in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Shooting Sparks. Her plays have been produced locally by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Another Country Productions, Centastage, Queer Soup, Playwrights’ Platform, and the Boston Theater Marathon, and have been featured nationally in Untitled Theater’s 24/7 Festival (New York), Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival (San Francisco), Women’s Theatre Project’s Naked Women Fully Clothed (Ft. Lauderdale), and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab (Valdez, Alaska). Ginger holds a master’s degree in playwriting from Boston University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Emerson College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, and Rhombus playwrights’ group. Visit her online at www.gingerlazarus.com.
Patrick Gabridge’s full-length plays include Fire on Earth, Flight, Constant State of Panic, Pieces of Whitey, Blinders, and Reading the Mind of God. He’s deeply involved in the Boston theatre community, with work produced and developed by 20 different companies in the Boston area, including a commission from the Underground Railway Theatre. He’s also been a Huntington Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company. He co-founded Boston’s Rhombus writers’ group in 2003, and also started the on-line Playwright Submission Binge, the Chameleon Stage theatre (Denver), the Bare Bones Theatre Company (New York), and the newsletter, Market InSight for Playwrights. (He likes to start things.) He’s also the author of one published novel, Tornado Siren and is a longtime member of the Dramatists Guild. He is a board member of Boston’s StageSource and the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund. In his spare time, he likes to farm. Read more over at Patrick's website!
Emily Kaye Lazzaro is a playwright and actor based in Boston. She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Her plays have had readings and productions in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Seattle. As an actor, Emily appeared in Priscilla Dreams the Answer with Fresh Ink Theatre, Murph with Argos Productions, and A Dream Play with Heart and Dagger Productions. Emily was a New Voices @ New Rep Playwriting Fellow for the 2011-2012 season and has been a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference for the past two years.
You can follow Emily's adventures over at her website!
You can follow Emily's adventures over at her website!
Noah Mease’s plays have been read and produced at the Atlantic Stage 2 with PTP/NYC and with the Short Play Lab in New York, the Horizon Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival in Atlanta, and at Middlebury College in Vermont. His plays for the radio have been performed live on the air in Vermont and rebroadcast in Canada and on the Internet. He’s worked with Ars Nova, The Vermont Governor’s Institute on the Arts, and Teatro Sombras, a high school theater group in San Pedro, Chile. He recently graduated from Middlebury College where he studied theater and Spanish. You can check out Noah's website to learn more!
Kevin Mullins is a playwright and theatre artist from Boston. His plays have been presented at Slant of Light Theatre in Norwich CT, Flat Earth Theatre in Boston, and The International Anarchist Theatre Festival of Montreal. A devised piece he worked on, Blind Alley Guy, premiered at the Incubator Arts Project in NYC last June. His play A Southern Victory was a semi-finalist for the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab and a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He is a founding member of Flat Earth Theatre and recently completed an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University.
2011-2012 Season
Walt McGough is a Boston- and Chicago-based playwright, originally from Pittsburgh. His plays include The Farm, Paper City Phoenix, True Places and Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird), and have been produced or developed by Boston Playwrights Theatre, Orfeo Group, Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Nu Sass, and the Second City Chicago, among others. He was a participant in the 2011 National New Play Network MFA Workshop, and a recipient of the Kennedy Center's 2010 Ken Ludwig Scholarship. This past summer, Priscilla Dreams the Answer won the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival Audience Award for Best Comedy, and he received the first short-play commission from Playwrights Commons in Boston. He is a founding ensemble member of Sideshow Theatre Company, for which he serves as Literary Manager, and currently works on staff at SpeakEasy Stage Company. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Boston University, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
You can check out Walt's other projects at www.waltmcgough.com.
You can check out Walt's other projects at www.waltmcgough.com.
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Michael Vukadinovich is a writer and director, and is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2007 Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Award. His work has been staged nationally in New York, California, Kansas, New Mexico, and Florida, as well as internationally. He is also the winner of a grant funding research on political theatre in Ireland and Northern Ireland and has served as a writer in residence for Upper Reaches Theatre Company. He completed his MFA at UCLA in playwriting where he has also taught writing classes.
To learn more about Michael, you can visit his website at www.michaelvukadinovich.com.
To learn more about Michael, you can visit his website at www.michaelvukadinovich.com.
