Ali was featured on the front page of New Play Exchange this week, as part of a top ten list of Musicals by Women. The New Play Exchange stated: Confidential to artistic directors: here on the New Play Exchange, there are any number of scripts by women just waiting to be produced. Here is just … More This Will Be Our Year in NPX Top Ten
MacLean’s musical opus, This Will Be Our Year, was named a semi-finalist by the prestigious O’Neill Musical Theater Conference. This Will Be Our Year was selected from over 400 entries to move forward as the conference selects two shows to workshop. The O’Neill states: This piece was championed by our staff and reading teams alike: … More This Will Be Our Year semi-finalist for the O’Neill
Today is Mental Health Action Day 2023! The theme this year, planned in partnership with MTV and TaskForce, is ACTION. What if everyone dedicated one hour to take action for their mental health? As an MTV Mental Health Talent Ambassador, and a 2023 Partner with MTV and Taskforce, Ali’s goal is to help empower people around the globe to take action for mental health, … More Today is MTV Mental Health Action Day! Watch Ali’s Roundtable Chat
This year’s Mental Health Action Day is on Thursday, May 18th and the theme, planned in partnership with TaskForce, is ACTION. What if everyone dedicated one hour to take action for their mental health? As an MTV Mental Health Talent Ambassador, and this year a Partner with MTV and Taskforce, Ali’s goal is to help empower people around the globe to take action for mental … More MTV Mental Health Action Day chats with Mike Doughty, Will Wheaton, and Craig Finn!
Team TWBOY has some exciting prospects coming up, including workshops with some broadway producers and creatives. However, funds are needed, so Ali and the gang started a fundraiser: Hey you rock ‘n rollers! Help us take This Will Be Our Year on the road! Or even down the road… Recently Ali adapted her play This Will Be Our … More Help take rock n roll show This Will Be Our Year on the road! Or down it…
Ali MacLean announced today her participation in the third-annual Mental Health Action Day held on Thursday, May 18 with more than 1,800 other leading companies, brands, nonprofits and cultural leaders globally. In 2021, MTV Entertainment Group and partners launched the first Mental Health Action Day to shift the culture of mental health. With 1,800+ partners and millions of individual participants … More Ali partners with MTV for Mental Health Action Day
Ali was named the Resident Artist at the Citadel of Playwrights this summer. As a co-hort and resident artist, she spent weekly sessions presenting pages to the collective and panel of her play as she transferred it into a musical, with the new material by Craig Finn. The work culminated with a virtual performance of … More MacLean’s residency at The Citadel ends with virtual presentation of This Will Be Our Year
Wanna relive the glory days of the early aughts when musicians still played guitars? Listen to Ali’s radio demo from her time on the air during the early aughts for a flashback. Ali was plucked from the halls of MTV to be an on-air personality on the new radio station Indie 103.1 FM. She was … More Radio, Radio
Ali MacLean has tapped indie-rock stalwart Craig Finn, frontman for The Hold Steady, to pen original music for the new mounting of her play This Will Be Our Year. This grunge rock-n-roll story follows the star-crossed, ten-year love affair between Gen (a struggling New York jewelry designer) and Hugo (a fledgling British rock star). In … More MacLean collaborates with indie rocker Craig Finn
This Will Be Our Year, which debuts live at the Zephyr Theater on July 17th, has begun the rehearsal process. Director Jason Weiss, and the cast: Adam Sinclair, Ali MacLean, Juliet Lopez, and Eric Delgado, are working their way through the piece which follows the stormy and passionate ten-year relationship between a British rockstar and … More This Will Be Our Year rehearsals are underway!
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