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 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
Marking the 6th and 7th publication for Ali, Smith and Kraus‘s newest anthologies to hit the shelves The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023 and The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023 both feature two pieces each from Ali’s plays. Each book has a monologue from Ali’s acclaimed play This Will Be Our Year (Hugo and Shannon), … More MacLean published again by Smith and Kraus – Best Monologues of 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.
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
Ali’s screenplay version of her award-winning play about mental health and monsters, She’s Not There, has advanced to the next round in the Script Lab competition. MacLean is a mental health advocate and also suffers from depression and general anxiety disorder. She wrote the film, which turns the rom com genre on its ear when … More She’s Not There advances in Script Lab
The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild, Theatre 40, and Spark Theatrical present a staged reading of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild’s winning play Ali MacLean’s play Wolves At The Door, in honor of it receiving the Julie Harris Playwright Award from the Theatre Guild. The play will be read at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills on … More Wolves At The Door to be Presented by Theatre 40 and Beverly Hills Theatre Guild
Ali has been selected by Coverfly for their Endorsed Writer Program. With all the momentum building around her projects, which includes being selected for Coverfly Pitch Week for multiple iterations in a row, the script writing platform company has added MacLean to their l Coverfly Endorsed Writer Program, which garners extra exposure as it the industry’s largest … More Coverfly taps Ali MacLean as ‘Endorsed Writer’
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