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Ali launches Monumental Artists – a Space for Stories That Save Lives

December 2, 2025

MacLean and her team have launched Monumental Artists. Monumental Artists is a new initiative dedicated to uplifting marginalized voices-particularly disabled playwrights affected by mental illness, neurodivergence, or traumatic brain injuries. Too many talented artists face financial and structural barriers that keep them out of the industry, especially with DEI and the Arts under attack. We’re … More Ali launches Monumental Artists – a Space for Stories That Save Lives

Ali a Visionary at Radford Studios

October 23, 2025

Ali was honored by Vizibility at Radford Studios! Radford Studio Center hosted an evening honoring the extraordinary talents of mid-to-senior-level filmmakers with disabilities across the greater Los Angeles area. The groundbreaking, résumé-forward pop-up gallery as a spotlight on the visionaries whose work shapes the stories, worlds, and magic of the entertainment industry. The evening celebrated, … More Ali a Visionary at Radford Studios

Ali Joins the Unusual Suspects at Boston Court!

September 17, 2025

Ali begins her second year as a teaching artist with the Unusual Suspects Theatre Company. However, this year she is happy to announce her host is Boston Court Theater in Pasadena. Led by Artistic Director, Jessica Kubzansky, each year, Boston Court produces a season of more than 100 exciting performances in theatre and music, including … More Ali Joins the Unusual Suspects at Boston Court!

Lady Killer a semi-finalist for Outstanding Screenplays

August 27, 2025

MacLean’s acclaimed TV pilot Lady Killer, which explores women who date men in prison, has racked up another laurel. The project is a semi-finalist for the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition. The script, which began as a web series concept for Super Deluxe, has garnered attention from agencies, directors, and production companies as well as … More Lady Killer a semi-finalist for Outstanding Screenplays

MacLean’s ‘Those People’ Opens EST/LA Winterfest

March 17, 2025

Ali MacLean’s new play, Those People, a harrowing look at violence in school in the south, was chosen for the EST/LA Theater Company Winterfest Festival, and for the second year in a row, opened up the festival. The short play, directed by MacLean, and starring Cherish Monique Duke, Micheal McShane, and Ali MacLean is an … More MacLean’s ‘Those People’ Opens EST/LA Winterfest

MacLean lands cover story for Devise magazine

February 24, 2025

Ali wrote this issues cover story for Devise Magazine about the stars of the indie hit, Didi, Isaac Wang, and Shirley Chen. The two young talented and prolific actors led the cast in Sean Wang’s coming-of-age dramedy about an awkward Taiwanese teen in the mid 2000s. Devise Magazine is published by The Unusual Suspects and … More MacLean lands cover story for Devise magazine

Ali works with UK’s Frantic Assembly

January 3, 2025

Though MacLean is known as an award-winning writer, she actually studied and is classically trained as an actor. In January MacLean will put those acting skills to use as she was selected for the Frantic Assembly Performance Residency!Frantic Assembly is a London based theater company with a specific movement technique. Formed in 1994, the Frantic … More Ali works with UK’s Frantic Assembly

MacLean’s Final Resting Place will be staged at the Broadwater Theater

November 22, 2024

ALI MACLEAN’S FINAL RESTING PLACE:  READING TO BENEFIT PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ON DECEMBER 4. Final Resting Place will be performed at the Broadwater Theater Second Stage on Wednesday, December 4th at 7:30pm. MacLean’s play, which is the winner of the International Centre for Women Playwrights Amy Oestreicher Award, will be read as a benefit for … More MacLean’s Final Resting Place will be staged at the Broadwater Theater

Cast is set for The Point: A Dark and Menacing Thriller at The Road Theatre

July 10, 2024

Casting has finalized for MacLean’s newest play, The Point, which will be performed at the Road Theatre as part of their 15th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival. Ali’s play, a dark and comedic thriller based on the true story of a murder in the woods amongst ‘friends’, was selected out of over 900 submissions for The Road Theatre’s … More Cast is set for The Point: A Dark and Menacing Thriller at The Road Theatre

THE POINT selected for 15th Anniversary Summer Playwrights Festival!

June 19, 2024

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!