Whitney Rowland '17 at the PlayPenn New Development Conference

Whitney Rowland (MFA '17) was selected as a 2019 Haas Fellow at the PlayPenn New Development Conference for her new play WAYFINDING. Jane is an emotionally-numbed new widow. Harrison is an inattentive, self-sabotaging husband. These two strangers collide - both literally and figuratively - tangling their life lines and setting them on a time-bending journey involving an intercontinental plane crash, a magical forest, and a choice that leads them both to an undexpected destination. Wayfinding received two public readings at The Drake Theatre in Philadelphia, summer 2019, as part of the PlayPenn program.

Lauren Wimmer '18 returns to Ars Nova on June 8

Last summer, Lauren Wimmer's (MFA '18) final CMU production THE DEATH OF HAYDEN WAVERLY, THE MOST POPULAR PERSON IN THE WORLD traveled to Ars Nova's ANT Fest. On June 8 she returns to ANT Fest with a new play created with The Bellwether Project, a new ensemble driven by CMU Drama graduates. In the not-so-distant future, after decades of natural decline, we can still count on one splashy spectacle of glamour: DR. REES ZITI’S PAGEANT FOR A BETTER FUTURE. Beauty contestants compete to determine who deserves to carry us forward in this zany variety-show-meets-harrowing-government-propaganda-machine. One night only!

SPACE GIRL by Mora V. Harris '16 now available

SPACE GIRL by Mora V. Harris (MFA '16), the story of a 16 year old girl named Arugula which is a normal name for a 16 year old girl, has been published by Playscripts Inc. Read it online, buy it, and check out this list of past productions.

Sankaram & Handel's THE INFINITE ENERGY OF ADA LOVELACE at Opera Ithaca

Five years in the making, THE INFINITE ENERGY OF ADA LOVELACE will be given its world premiere by Opera Ithaca this week. This collaboration between myself and composer Kamala Sankaram tells the surprising and mostly true story of mathematician Ada Lovelace, inventor Charles Babbage, and a visiting American named Harriet Beecher Stowe.

FEMININE OCTAGON by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk '16 in Long Island City

CMU Drama alums populate the cast and design team of FEMININE OCTAGON [OR. ARISTOTLE CAN EAT ME] by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk (MFA '16), a playwright often to be found making good trouble. The play examines what it means to be femme and feminine, and how that is commodified and curated, socially, economically, and online. See it this month at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.

HORIZON THREE by Isabella D'Esposito '17

HORIZON THREE by Isabella D'Esposito (MFA '17) has landed in Boise in a new production from Homegrown Theatre. The play was developed in the New Works Series at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (where it looked kind of fabulous, as you can see on director Ariel Zucker's site).

13P is famous in Athens, Georgia

13P, the playwright-run theater company I started in 2003 with Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Madeleine George, Ann Marie Healy, Julia Jarcho, Young Jean Lee, Winter Miller, Sarah Ruhl, Kate E. Ryan, Lucy Thurber, Anne Washburn, and Gary Winter, lives on.