Tag: murder

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

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!

THE POINT Opens Winterfest to Raves.

February 28, 2024

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.

MacLean’s full length play THE POINT, about Massachusetts class warfare and drugs, opens EST’s WINTERFEST

February 22, 2024

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

MacLean workshops full length version of The Point with EST/LA.

October 4, 2023

Ali brought the newest version of her short play The Point, which was named one of the ‘Best Ten Minute Plays of 2022’ and published by Smith & Kraus, to the EST Playwrights Unit last week. Supported by a cast of talented actors from EST/LA, Antaeus, and other local LA theater companies, Ali joined the … More MacLean workshops full length version of The Point with EST/LA.

She’s Not There gets top ranking on Coverfly

April 10, 2023

It’s a good week for Ali’s screenplay, She’s Not There. First her award-winning story is advanced to the next round by Script Lab, then she lands in the Top 8% of discoverable projects and Top 10% of projects on the site. In a highly competitive field such as the Coverfly screenplay database, which showcases hundreds … More She’s Not There gets top ranking on Coverfly

New play ‘The Point’ performed at the Antaeus short play night.

December 11, 2020

Ali MacLean participated in the Antaeus Playwrights Lab end of year play extravaganza. Each playwright selected was assigned the theme ‘Now or Never’, and instructed to write a ten-minute play. MacLean created the short play The Point featuring Angela Sauer, Emily Goss, Luis Kelly-Duarte, and Aaron Lyons. The Point is a dark story about a group of friends at … More New play ‘The Point’ performed at the Antaeus short play night.