THREE to Close Boston Public Works' Season

Boston Public Works Theater Company will present the third and final production of its 2014-2015 Season, Three by Emily Kaye Lazzaro, running June 5 through June 20, 2015 in the Black Box Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Your 20s are supposed to be glorious. In reality, they're the worst. Three is a coming-of-age story about three young women finding validation, struggling against loneliness, and losing everything. It's about friendship and independence and death and adulthood. "You've heard of the Bechdel Test. This play is about three women in conflict with each other, and it has nothing to do with a man. Three is about their relationships with each other", says playwright Emily Kaye Lazzaro.

The cast features Tasia Jones as Sam, Kelly Chick as Diane, AND Sarah Elizabeth Bedard as Jenni. A. Nora Long directs, and the creative team includes Shelley Barish (Scenic Design), Amanda Ostrow (Costume Design), Ian W. King (Lighting Design) and Andrew Duncan Will (Sound Design). The production stage manager is Lauren Annese.

Emily Kaye Lazzaro is a playwright and actor based in Boston. She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Her plays have had readings and productions in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Seattle. As an actor, Emily appeared in Priscilla Dreams the Answer with Fresh Ink Theatre, Murph with Argos Productions and A Dream Play with Heart and Dagger Productions and appeared in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Emily's full-­?length play Girls' Sports, was produced by Fresh Ink Theatre in Boston in 2013. Emily was a NEXT VOICES at New Rep Playwriting Fellow for the 2011-­?2012 season and has qualified as a semi?finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference for the past two years.

Three is the third project undertaken by Boston Public Works, a playwright-driven theater collective that?s forgoing the traditional routes for play development by producing their own plays and leaving a road-map for like-minded playwrights to follow. Over the course of two years, Boston Public Works will present one fully-staged productions of plays written by each of its seven playwrights: John Greiner-Ferris, Cassie M. Seinuk, Emily Kaye Lazzaro, Jess Foster, Kevin Mullins, Jim Dalglish, and Laura Neubauer. They will disband after all of the playwright's' works have premiered.