Coming this July: Moah love and murdah! THE POINT – Murph and Scanlan join love birds Lugo and Teenie for a debaucherous party deep in the Massachusetts woods. At first, they miss the underlying tension between the couple but then realize that the night is about to take a deadly turn… Ali’s latest play, an … More THE POINT selected for 15th Anniversary Summer Playwrights Festival!
Ali has been chosen to join the BlackMagic Filmmakers Collection and will participate in their Bridge the Gap initiative. Founded with the belief that the art of filmmaking should be accessible to all, the Blackmagic Collective is designed to bring together filmmakers from all disciplines and experience levels to learn from, share with, and inspire … More Ali is magic for Bridge the Gap Writers Initiative!
Thursday, May 16th is Mental Health Action Day! In 2021, MTV Entertainment Group, Task Force, and Partners launched the first Mental Health Action Day to shift the culture of mental health. Today, with over 2,000+ partners, brands, and influential speakers, plus millions of individual participants from across 32 countries, this year the focus is on deepening impact. … More Ali is a 2024 MTV Task Force Ambassador for Mental Health Action Day!
Ali MacLean’s award winning play, She’s Not There, which tackles living with depression and how it affects the people around you, was requested by the Lexington High School Theater program for their 2024 UIL competition play. Though MacLean doesn’t normally allow anyone to change her work, she made an exception so that the play could … More She’s Not There Brings Top Prize to the Lexington Theatre Department
Ali MacLean’s short play called ‘The Girl Who Survived the Highway Hunter’ will be published in FROZEN WOMEN/FLOWING THOUGHTS by Palmetto Press. The Anthology series was curated and edited by Deb Randall at the Venus Theatre in Maryland. The Frozen Women/Flowing Voices anthology will include a collection of 80 short plays and monologues by women … More Ali to be Published in ‘Frozen Women’ Anthology.
Ali MacLean’s new play about love, class warfare, and opioids in Massachusetts, opened EST/LA’s Winterfest Festival of Plays last week, as the Pick of the Playwrights Unit. Starring Ashley Denise Robinson as the Co-ed, Abby, Michael King as Lugo the local drug kingpin, Greg Winter as the hapless Scanlan, Brent Morin as the heartsick Murph, … More THE POINT Opens Winterfest to Raves.
Ali MacLean’s new full length play The Point, a dark and comedic thriller based on the true story of a murder in the woods amongst ‘friends’, will debut at EST/LA. The official Winterfest selection of the Playwrights Unit, will open up this year’s EST/LA festival of new work. As the ‘Pick of the Playwrights Unit’ The … More MacLean’s full length play THE POINT, about Massachusetts class warfare and drugs, opens EST’s WINTERFEST
Ali’s play Final Resting Place, which is a scathing and satirical look at America’s obsession with true crime and violence against women, has been named a Second Rounder for the Ojai Playwrights Conference. The ranking means Ali’s play is in consideration for the conference in August. For more than two decades, the Ojai Playwrights Conference … More Ali’s Final Resting Place placed high for Ojai
Ali’s award-winning play, She’s Not There, is on the home page of New Play Exchange this week. The play, which deals with depression and has been dubbed ‘Annie Hall meets The Babadook’, is shortlisted as one of the most highly recommended horror scripts that are yet to be produced. NewPlayX: To get the new year … More She’s Not There on NPX featured plays!
Ali’s play FINAL RESTING PLACE has made it to the final round of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023. With a submission total of over a thousand scripts, MacLean is in the top 9% of the selected playwrights. The Women’s Prize is the first of its kind which celebrates and champions female and non-binary playwrights … More MacLean places in top 9% for Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023 competition
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