Melia Bensussen Named National Playwrights Conference Artistic Director
Bensussen will retain her role as artistic director at Hartford Stage.
Bensussen will retain her role as artistic director at Hartford Stage.
The retreat will feature readings of 3 new plays by playwrights Masha Obolensky, Melinda Lopez, and Catherine Epstein, and a community playwriting class taught by Lenelle Moïse.
This year’s national conference features work by jose sebastian alberdi, Jan Rosenberg, a.k. payne, Alex Lin, Collin Van Son, and Liba Vaynberg.
For 2 new plays at the Huntington, the ‘Luck of the Irish’ playwright draws on her family dynamics and Boston roots, respectively.
What should we expect from the U.S. theatre’s field-wide changing of the guard? A new generation of leaders gives cause for cautious optimism.
10 new artistic directors talk about their visions for their communities, and for the theatre field writ large.
The acclaimed director will succeed Darko Tresnjak to become the theatre’s sixth artistic director.