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.

  • 3/4 8PM
  • 3/6 8PM
  • 3/7 1PM
  • 3/8 8PM
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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.
  • 3/5 8PM
  • 3/6 1PM
  • 3/7 8PM
  • 3/8 1PM
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?

  • 3/5 5PM
  • 3/7 6PM
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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.
  • 3/6 4PM
  • 3/8 6PM
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.

  • 3/7 3PM
  • 3/8 3PM
More information coming soon!