Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Writing is Live 2026

Writing is Live 2026 A Festival of New Theatre by Brown University MFA Playwrights  March 4 - 8 Providence, RI


 

Thesis Productions

Private Parts by Brian Dang '26 MFA
Directed by Gregory Keng Strasser
This is Vietnam. Actually, look closer. It’s July 23rd, 1982 on the set of Twilight Zone: the Movie in Valencia, California. A helicopter will fatally strike three actors: My-ca Dinh Le, Renee Shin-Yi Chen, and Vic Morrow. But wait. Look even closer.

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Eternity, Arizona by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA
Directed by M Sloth Levine
Eternity, Arizona, Population: 43. Night settles. A teenage girl walks into the wash. An outlaw shows up, running.
Staged Readings

BREED by Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA
Directed by Sarah Blush
In 1733 on the island of St. John, Breffu, a bad slave, plots a rebellion. Centuries later in Los Angeles, Breanna, a bad surrogate mother, gets sued. Will the women find each other floating in the abyss?

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Deliver Us! by James La Bella MFA '27
Directed by Sammy Zeisel
Let’s solve the male loneliness epidemic through the transformative power of drama.
Reading

bad maidens by Reed Flores MFA '28
Directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy '22 MFA

Welcome to the Beggar’s Benison, a sacred order of knights in 18th-century Scotland devoted to the study and reverence of male sexuality. We are the maidens who do the order’s dirty work. Maybe we’re the ones who should tell this story.

More information coming soon!