Tag: theater

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.

MacLean nominated for 3 Broadway World Awards!

November 24, 2020

The Broadway World Awards voting has begun and there are three chances to support Ali MacLean’s work. She is nominated for She’s Not There for Best Ensemble, She’s Not There for Best Performance/Play, and This Will Be Our Year for Top Virtual Performance. She’s Not There, winner of the John Gassner Award, was performed at … More MacLean nominated for 3 Broadway World Awards!

New writing class taught by Ali MacLean at The Yard Theater

October 1, 2020

Offered by the award winning playwright and 2020 David Sedaris Humor Writing prize winner. Get one-on-one feedback from on your play or script. Ali Maclean’s very 1st Zoom playwriting course begins this October! Have you always wanted to write a play? Maybe you want to create a vehicle for yourself to star in? Or polish … More New writing class taught by Ali MacLean at The Yard Theater

Wolves At The Door advances in the Screencraft Stage Play competition

September 30, 2020

Wolves At The Door, Ali’s award-winning play about grief, guns, and toxic masculinity, has been named a quarterfinalist, out of 1,000 entries in the Screencraft Stage Play Competition. This year’s jury includes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Stephen Adly Gurgis and Nilo Cruz, a Tony-nominated director and choreographer, and artistic directors at The Old Globe Theater and IAMA Theater Company. … More Wolves At The Door advances in the Screencraft Stage Play competition

MacLean’s Wolves At The Door wins the Julie Harris Playwright Award

July 24, 2020

Ali MacLean’s provocative play Wolves At The Door has taken the first prize, the Julie Harris Playwright Award, given by the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild annually sponsors the Julie Harris Playwright Awards Competition to discover new theatrical works and to encourage established or emerging writers to create quality works for … More MacLean’s Wolves At The Door wins the Julie Harris Playwright Award

This Will Be Our Year debuts at the first SHE LA ARTS virtual theater festival

July 19, 2020

This Will Be Our Year was selected as part of the 2020 She NYC Arts/ She LA Arts Theatre Festival. The Festival was due to open at the Zephyr Theater this summer, but due to COVID has switched to a virtual, online festival. THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR, was instead performed virtually, using an innovative … More This Will Be Our Year debuts at the first SHE LA ARTS virtual theater festival

This Will Be Our Year to join SHE LA ARTS festival

May 19, 2020

  As announced in BroadwayWorld, MAclean and her buzzy rock-n-roll Greek tragedy This Will Be Our Year, will join the SHE LA ARTS Theater Festival. Via BroadwayWorld: The SheNYC, SheLA, and SheATL Summer Theater Festivals will adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic by moving all programming to a live-streamed staged reading format. The selected pieces will record … More This Will Be Our Year to join SHE LA ARTS festival

This Will Be Our Year Debuts at Ensemble Studio Theatre

January 23, 2020

Ali MacLean’s Rock n Roll Greek tragedy debuted to a packed theater at Atwater Village Theater Sunday night and received rave reviews. This Will Be Our Year, which follows the toxic love affair of Hugo (Rob Nagle), a British rock star, and Gen (Ali MacLean) a New York designer, took the audience at Ensemble Studio … More This Will Be Our Year Debuts at Ensemble Studio Theatre