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"I'm really impressed with the work of Playwrights' Platform"
-- John Guare (The House of Blue Leaves)
"I've had a long association with Playwrights' Platform and am aware of no other organization in New England so consistently and enthusiastically devoted to developing, shaping, and presenting new plays."
-- A.R. Gurney (former Playwrights' Platform member, The Dining Room, Sylvia, Love Letters)
"An opportunity to view some of the best unproduced works by some of the area's brightest playwrights."
-- Boston Globe"The American Theater needs playwrights badly at this time ... This is an admirable project, and the best of authors need badly what the Platform provides."
-- Elliot Norton"I began my work as a playwright in Boston ... studying playwriting at Brandeis University and seeing my first productions staged by Playwrights' Platform, under the guidance of Beverly Creasey. One of the one-acts I did there was so successful people urged me to expand it, and that became my first produced full-length play - Sunday on the Rocks - which was given a wonderful production starring Paula Plum in the South End."
- Theresa Rebeck, (former Playwrights' Platform member, Bad Dates, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Brooklyn Bridge)
We are often asked what happens to a play or a playwright after having a reading at Playwrights' Platform.
Awards and grants won by our playwrights include:
Samuel French Short Play Festival
IRNE Award, Best New Play
Onassis Foundation Award
Group Theatre Minority Playwrighting
Massachusetts Playwrighting Fellowships
Off-off Broadway Best Short Play Award
Midwest Playwrights Conference
DuBuque One Act Playwrighting Award
O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
Atlanta New Plays Project Award
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
The Sundance Institute
Andold Weissberger Award
Beverly Hills Playwriting Award
Our playwrights have been extremely successful in getting their plays performed outside of the New England area and some have landed jobs writing for the movies and television. Plays have been produced on network television, local television and one made into a major motion picture.
Playwrights' Platform
398 Columbus Ave.
#604
Boston, MA 02116-6008
by email:
For general questions about Playwrights' Platform: info@playwrightsplatform.org
For membership information and questions: membership@playwrightsplatform.org
For website-related questions and problems: webmaster@playwrightsplatform.org
Meetings will be held in the Rosen Auditorium unless noted otherwise.
For general directions to Lasell, use this link or this link.
SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS TO ROSEN AUDITORIUM
Brennan Library
Lasell College
80-A Maple St., Newton, Ma. 02466
(PLEASE NOTE: THE ROSEN AUDITORIUM IS IN THE BASEMENT OF THE BRENNAN LIBRARY BUILDING)
The Brennan Library is No. 11 on the campus map (link attached)
http://www.lasell.edu/images/userImages/fweil/Page_440
Coming from 128
Take the Grove Street exit (they can see Holiday inn from 128), follow Grove Street for 2-2 1/2 miles until they reach Woodland Road. Take a right on Woodland and then a left (the next block down) on Maple Street. The Brennan Library (location of Rosen auditorium) is on the right.
Coming from Commonwealth Avenue
Follow Comm Ave down until you see a Lasell parking lot on the left. Take a left onto Central Street, follow that down for a couple of blocks and then take a left onto Maple Street. They will come to Brennan Library at about 1/4 of a mile.
Coming from Waltham or Watertown
Take Washington Street to Commonwealth Avenue, take the 3rd left onto Central Street, follow down for a couple of blocks, then take a left onto Maple Street.
Coming from Mass Pike
If getting off at Newton Corner, take Washington Street and follow it all the way down (past Whole Foods and past West Newton Square) until they get to Commonwealth Avenue, take the 3rd left onto Central Street, follow for a couple of blocks then take a left onto Maple Street. They can also get off at the West Newton exit, get on Washington St. from there, and then onto Commonwealth Avenue.
If getting off Pike in Newton Lower Falls, take Washington Street, pass the hospital and keep going until they see Woodland Avenue on the left. Take Woodland Ave and follow it down until they come to Maple Street on the right. Take Maple Street and Brennan Library is on the right.
Playwrights' Platform maintains an electronic mailing list for announcements and general use. To subscribe to our mailing list, go to the sign-on page.
Playwrights' Platform Officers are as follows:
Interim President : Gail Phaneuf
Chairman : Jerry Bisantz
Vice President : Chris King
Treasurer : Andrew S. Burns
Secretary : Regina Eliot-Ramsey
The constitution and bylaws of Playwrights' Platform are available on-line here:
Our most recent filing with the Secretary of the Commonwealth can be found here: Playwrights' Platform, Inc.
