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Meet Jocelyn Bioh
With her success as the playwright of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play and a writer on the Netflix hit show Russian Doll, Jocelyn Bioh is quickly making a name as one of the nation’s up-and-coming voices. SpeakEasy Boston Project Coordinator Pascale Florestal caught up with Jocelyn to discuss the writers who influence her, her upcoming projects, and the experiences that inspired School Girls.
2019 Boston Project
SpeakEasy’s Boston Project is back for a fourth season, featuring two brand new locally-set plays by playwrights MJ Halberstadt and Laura Neill. We are thrilled to announce the return of Phaedra Michelle Scott, a 2017-2018 Boston Project Playwright, who will …
Announcing Our 2019-20 Season!
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND: SEP 13 – OCT 19, 2019 Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent 2019 Tony Award Nominee for Best Play! From Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight, comes a powerful coming-of-age story …
Honoring Edward & Nancy Roberts
Nancy and Ed Roberts to receive the 2019 Thomas M. Menino Memorial Award for Inspired Support of the Arts.
Meet Mackenzie Lesser-Roy
Mackenzie Lesser-Roy might be making her SpeakEasy debut, but she’s no stranger to Boston or this show. After leaving Boston Conservatory in her junior year to join the national tour of Once, Mackenzie performed the role of “Girl” at over 300 performances. We sat down with Mackenzie to talk about what makes Once so special, and how performing it at SpeakEasy is a whole new adventure.
Meet Nile Scott Hawver
Nile Scott Hawver is back at SpeakEasy for his third show on our stage, having previously played Will in Mothers and Sons and Monty in Violet (2016). But what SpeakEasy fans might not know is that over the past two or three seasons, much of SpeakEasy’s poster photography and show photography was shot by Nile. With talents both onstage and behind the camera, we sat down with Nile to see if there was anything he couldn’t do. Don’t miss Nile in Once, running Mar 1-Apr 7, 2019.
Director M. Bevin O’Gara
Director M. Bevin O’Gara (Clybourne Park, Tribes, The Bridges of Madison County, and more) is no stranger to SpeakEasy Stage, but this is her first show back with us since being named Artistic Director of the Kitchen Theatre Company in …
Fun Home: Queer History, Memory, and Finding Our Truth
“My father died soon after I came out to my family as a lesbian. It freaked everyone out. My mother [had] told me that my father was gay. Soon after that he was hit by a truck. So [Fun Home] …
Designer Cristina Todesco
When it comes to set design in Boston, few have the impressive resume of Cristina Todesco, a four-time Elliot Norton Award and an IRNE Award winner for set design. Long-time SpeakEasy fans will certainly recognize her work from shows such …
Contemporary American Musicals
While some may debate its origins, musical theatre is one of only a handful of truly original American art forms. Composer Leonard Bernstein once described musical theatre as “an art that arises out of American roots, out of our speech, …
2019 Boston Project
Having been named “Boston’s Best Launch Pad of 2018” by The Improper Bostonian magazine, SpeakEasy’s Boston Project is back for a fourth season, featuring two brand new locally-set plays by playwrights MJ Halberstadt of Brookline and Laura Neill of Brighton. …
