Sass’ ‘Incels’ at NYTF
Playwright alum Ally Sass’ Incels and Other Myths plays this weekend (Nov. 9, 11, and 12) as part of the New York Theater Festival, dedicated to self-production, art, and creativity. Readers may remember that Incels and Other Myths was Ally’s thesis play while she was a student at BU, and played BPT in 2021. Ally […]
The WASPs are Not OK: ‘Incels and Other Myths’
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — Incels and Other Myths invites the audience into the world of massive multiplayer online gaming and the Lord of the Flies corners of the internet, where misogyny has even less consequences than in the physical world. Elaine (Allison Blaize), a mythology teacher at an all-girls high […]
On set: ‘Incels and Other Myths’
Sneak peek at Steven Velasquez’s set for Incels and Other Myths by Ally Sass, which you can see onstage starting next week!
Congratulations, graduates!
We’re so proud of our graduating playwrights! Not everyone could attend last weekend’s Commencement in person, but Ally Sass found a crafty way to make sure the rest of her cohort (L-R: Caity-Shea Violette, Daniel C. Blanda, Cayenne Douglass, and Eliana Pipes) was there in spirit. Congratulations, all!
BPT Talks About Design: a tiny q&a with INCELS… and LORENA director Erica Terpening-Romeo
BPT’s 2020-21 season of new plays—thesis plays by our cohort of third-year playwrights—has been postponed until next year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the meantime, all five plays are currently being workshopped in collaboration with our friends at BU’s College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. A series of conversations about these plays, […]
BPT Talks: a tiny q&a with Ally Sass
BPT’s 2020-21 season of new plays—thesis plays by our cohort of third-year playwrights—has been postponed until next year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the meantime, all five plays are currently being workshopped in collaboration with our friends at BU’s College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. A series of conversations about these plays, […]
KCACTF Region 1 update
Three of our second-year playwrights were honored at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s (KCACTF) Region 1 Festival in Hyannis: Caity-Shea Violette’s ten-minute play Slow Jam was chosen to advance to the National KCACTF, one of 16 selected across the country—two per region—for consideration for the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award. Daniel Blanda’s […]
Exciting news from Region 1
Three first-year MFA playwrights are Region 1 finalists for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. From left: Eliana Pipes (Snow Brown and the 7 Stereotypes) and Ally Sass (Late Night at the Serpent) are finalists for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, and Cayenne Douglass (Variable Rates of Kindness) is a finalist […]
Sass’s ‘Late Night at the Serpent’
Happy opening to current MFA playwright Ally Sass, whose Late Night at the Serpent debuts as part of the New York International Fringe Festival and runs through October 28. Congratulations!