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Introducing the 2021 Boston Project
The Boston Project
The Boston Project
The Boston Project is SpeakEasy Stage’s new works initiative that supports the creation and development of new plays set in Boston, all of which tap into the full breadth of experiences and identities that make up life in the Hub.
Each spring, SpeakEasy Stage accepts proposals for currently unwritten full-length scripts set in contemporary Boston. We select two projects and invite the playwrights to spend the upcoming season writing and developing their plays with us. The selected playwrights are each paid a commissioning fee.
SpeakEasy Stage works with the playwrights to build a development schedule. Potential available resources include: dramaturgical meetings, research assistance, table reads, and feedback sessions with the artistic staff. Each playwright will also be paired with a dedicated, professional dramaturg and director to assist with their process.
The development process culminates in a two-week workshop and invited staged reading approximately one year after proposals are submitted. We pair each playwright with a director for this process, and cast the reading with professional actors.
Boston Project Updates
Call for Submissions: Project Resilience
SpeakEasy Stage Company is seeking proposals from New England based playwrights for currently unwritten, location-specific, ten-minute monologues for our devised piece, The Boston Project: Project Resilience.
Boston Podcast Project
SERIES 1: THE USUAL UNUSUALBY MJ HALBERSTADTDIRECTED BY MEGAN SANDBERG-ZAKIAN The Usual Unusual is a scrappy and quaint bookstore where Boston’s LGBTQ+ community has gathered to shop, organize, and flirt since the 70’s. When the store’s charismatic founder Penn announces his …
Who’s Who: The Usual Unusual Cast
Meet the cast of our first Boston Project Podcast Series: The Usual Unusual!
2020 Call for Proposals
The Boston Project is a new works initiative supporting the creation and development of plays set right here in our hometown. Our goal is to create more plays that explore what it means to be in this city at this moment, …
Playwright Bill Doncaster
Bill Doncaster is a local playwright and our second Boston Project playwright. His new play Ward Nine will be featured alongside Nina Louise Morrison’s Born Naked this February.
The 2020 Boston Project
I didn’t make this by j. sebastián alberdi
Directed by Caley Chase
Dramaturgy by Melory Mirashrafi
Museum Play by John J. King
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Dramaturgy by Pascale Florestal
The 2019 Boston Project
The Usual Unusual by MJ Halberstadt
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Dramaturgy by Helen Lewis
Just Cause by Laura Neill
Directed by Dawn Meredith Simmons
Dramaturgy by Tonasia Jones
The 2018 Boston Project
DIASPORA! by Phaedra Michelle Scott
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Dramaturgy by Hayley Spivey
Hot Dog Christmas by Ethan Warren
Directed by Alex Lonati
Dramaturgy by Helen Lewis
2017 Boston Project
Ole White Sugah Daddy by Obehi Janice
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Dramaturgy by Phaedra Michelle Scott
Knock Down, Drag Out by Rick Park
Directed by Maria Silvaggi
Dramaturgy by Ramona Ostrowski
The 2016 Boston Project
Born Naked by Nina Louise Morrison
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Dramaturgy by Walt McGough
Ward Nine by Bill Doncaster
Directed by Darren Evans
Dramaturgy by Walt McGough
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