Writing is Live 2025
Assistant Director Information & Application
Would you like to gain experience working with new plays in process? Are you interested in shadowing an experienced director as they collaborate with Brown playwrights? Apply to be an assistant director!
You’ll attend rehearsals of a staged reading, reading, or workshop production, assisting the director with note taking, rehearsal tasks, and more. Be a part of the process!
Assistant Directors on Thesis Productions are eligible to take the 1/2 credit Theatre Production Practicum.
Each play has a different number of rehearsals…see below for info.
Applications are due by Tuesday, Dec 3
Apply Here: https://forms.gle/pRRT3gvEempYuRse8
Please contact Creative Producer, Aileen Wen McGroddy, a.mcgroddy@gmail.com, with any questions.
Third-Year Thesis Workshop Productions (appx. 5 rehearsals per week) |
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untitled yeast play by Kathy Ng ‘25 MFA
Directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy ‘22 MFA
In a not-so-distant future, a mysterious illness has swept the globe, where afflicted children fall asleep and are unable to wake back up. Lucy hires Ina to help take care of her sick child, Chip. Lucy lives in an architecturally impressive house with her food entrepreneur husband, Reeve, and her and her venture capitalist dad, Chip Senior. Ina is on a top-secret mission. A classic family drama submerged in fungus.
IS CRY YOU CRY’N? by Dhari Noel ‘25 MFA
Directed by Raz Golden
Grace is staging a wedding in order to take pictures for a green-card marriage. Whose getting married? Tashie recently came from Trinidad with her son Likkle and is marrying her ”cousin” Nap. Nap brings his “friend” Cian to the wedding. At the same time, four fraternity pledges are experiencing their last night of hell week before becoming full fledged brothers. Flower, Mayo, Middle-Pledge, and Little (all grown up) make dances, crack jokes, and test one another’s commitment. Both stories take place in the same basement, with actors taking part in both stories and blurring the lines of identity. “If cat mek kitten in an oven does that make it bun?” is a Trini saying our mothers might tell us anytime we dare suggest we are not Trini. “Is Cry You Cry’n?” is a full-length play interrogating the dream this proverb aspires to make real.
Second-Year Staged Readings (appx. 3-4 rehearsals per week) |
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STRAIGHT WEDDING by Jimmy Fay ‘26 MFA
Directed by Kedian Keohan
A play about two straight people on their wedding day. No wait. It’s a play about why straight people get married. Actually it’s about Grindr. It’s about abolishing the family. It’s not about straight people at all. Straight people don’t exist.
WHAT!! EVER!! MAJOR!! LOSER!! by Brian Dang ‘26 MFA
Directed by Brian Dang ‘26 MFA
In an adaptation of Antigone set in the Providence Place Mall, Whatever, Major, and Loser (and a chorus) are cursed by something in the fallout of the death of Whatever’s brother. It’s about loving in the mall. And loving in the post-war-always-war era. And loving your dead brother so much you want everybody to be him.
First-Year Readings (appx. 2-3 rehearsals per week) |
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DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. PLUCK OUT YOUR EYES. by James La Bella ‘27 MFA
Directed by Daniel Stivelberg ‘26
2004, Halloween Night. A tragedy unfolds at an Evangelical ‘Hell House,’ captured from every angle by a fervent reporter and the two camera-eyes of God. Who will be Saved, and what will be left of them?
THEN ACT LIKE IT by Savannah Lyons Anthony ‘27 MFA
Directed by TBA
A group of actors and their director join for their weekly class where the lines blur between their acting exercises and real life. Someone has died, but everyone is acting like everything is okay. Everyone is being held hostage by their desire to do a good job. There is a Janitor that’s making sure everyone is okay.
Applications are due by Tuesday, Dec 3
Apply Here: https://forms.gle/pRRT3gvEempYuRse8