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CAYENNE DOUGLASS has had work developed and/or produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Take Ten Theatre Masters, Fresh Ink Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Dixon Place, The Tank, Clutch Productions, City Theatre Miami, FEAST: A Performance Series, and Manhattan Repertory Theatre. She has participated in The First Stage Residency through The Drama League, The Barn Arts Residency, The Emerging Artists Residency at Tofte Lake. Over three years, The Kennedy Center has recognized four plays for The Gary Garrison National 10-Minute play Award and one play for The John Cauble One Act Award. Her full-length play, Maiden Voyage won three KCACTF national awards: The Lorraine Hansberry Award (2nd Place), The Rosa Parks Award (Distinguished Achievement) and The Paula Vogel Playwriting Award (Distinguished Achievement). Additionally, Maiden Voyage is on the Kilroy List 2020 and was a Bay Area Festival Finalist 2021. Cayenne has also been a Finalist for The Playwrights’ Center Core Apprenticeship two years in a row for her play Atlantic City Seagulls, 2020 and BEASTS, 2021. She has been published by Smith & Kraus and Concord Theatricals/Sam French. Cayenne is currently in The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and Company One Theatre’s Volt Lab 2022. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. For more information visit: www.cayennedouglass.com or follow Cayenne on IG: bruteful_theatre.

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MAIDEN VOYAGE by Cayenne Douglass to Play The Flea Theater in March

Maiden Voyage by playwright Cayenne Douglass, directed by Alex Keegan, will play The Flea Theater, March 2-17. Learn how to purchase tickets!
Cayenne Douglass And Reid Pope Given 2023 Awards By Parity Productions At Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony And Celebration

Cayenne Douglass and Reid Pope receive 2023 Parity Productions Awards at the Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony and Celebration, featuring the pre-screening of 'STOP MOTION' by Liz Kerin.
Nominees Revealed For the 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Awards

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts virtually hosted more than 110 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).
Ensemble Studio Theatre Announces Sloan Project Commissions

Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced new EST/Sloan Project commissions for the 2022-2023 season.
BEASTS Comes to Boston Playwrights' Theatre

Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) concludes its 2021-22 season with Beasts by Cayenne Douglass. Running from April 7-17, the play is directed by Kelly Galvin.
RX MACHINA Comes to Boston Playwrights' Theatre

The drama examines big pharma's impact on everyday American culture through the eyes of five women on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic, blurring ethical boundaries in a love triangle fueled by money, sex and power.
INCELS AND OTHER MYTHS Will Be Performed at Boston Playwrights' Theatre Next Month

The drama journeys into the online realms of gender, power and mythology when Elaine, a teacher of Women in Mythology, grows concerned when son Avery spends much of his time playing the online adventure game Oracle.
GONE NOWHERE Begins At Boston Playwrights' Theatre November 4

Boston Playwrights' Theatre continues its 2021-22 season with Gone Nowhere by Daniel C. Blanda. Running from November 4-14, the play is directed by Noah Putterman.
LORENA: A Tabloid Epic Announced At Boston Playwrights' Theatre

Boston Playwrights' Theatre opens its 2021-22 season with LORENA: a Tabloid Epic by Eliana Pipes. Running from October 14-24, the play is directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Announces 2021-2022 Season

Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) today announces the new plays that will comprise its 2021-2022 season. The line-up includes LORENA: a Tabloid Epic by Eliana Pipes, Gone Nowhere by Daniel C. Blanda, Incels and Other Myths by Ally Sass, Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette and Beasts by Cayenne Douglass.
Finalists And Semi Finalists Revealed For 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premier launchpad for plays and playwrights, has announced the semi finalists and finalists for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) scheduled to stream online July 16-25, 2021.
$5 Tickets On Sale For The Sappho Project's THE W*RK LAB

The Sappho Project presents musical presentations created by The W*rk Lab, a developmental lab that fosters the creation of new paradigm shifting musicals written by women and TGNC (trans & gender non-conforming) artists.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Presents Boston Theater Marathon XXIII: Special Zoom Edition

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre will present Boston Theater Marathon XXIII: Special Zoom Edition, featuring 50 ten-minute plays written by New England playwrights and presented by New England theatre companies via the video conferencing tool Zoom.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Announces The Continuation Of BPT TALKS Series

Boston Playwrights' Theatre today announces the continuation of its series of conversations about new plays, BPT Talks. The upcoming conversations, BPT Talks About Design, will be held via the video conferencing tool Zoom.
The Sappho Project Announces Four Musicals Chosen for The W*rk Lab

The Sappho Project has announce that the 2020 W*rk Lab will include not three, but four new musicals! The selected musicals, chosen from fifty-nine applications, include AT THE BARRE (SMJ [they/them] and Sarah Flaim [she/her]), BREWSTERS (Cayenne Douglass [she/her]), MONTGOMERY (Britt Bonney [she/her]), and POWER (Sukari Jones [she/her]).
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Announces A Different Kind Of (Virtual) Season For 2020-2021

Boston Playwrights' Theatre today announces a series of conversations about new plays, BPT Talks, to be held this fall via the videoconferencing tool Zoom.
Clutch's Annual EmpowHER Reading Series Returns Next Month

Clutch Productions has announced the show will go on, despite the pandemic, of their annual empowHER Reading Series, featuring one-act plays and short screenplays by emerging female (and female-identifying) writers.
BWW Review: New England Premiere of THE SMUGGLER: Of Immigrants and the American Dream

Ronán Noone is an Irish-American playwright, an immigrant, who writes about what he knows and what he has lived. In his most recent work, THE SMUGGLER, which won the Best Playwright award at the 1st Irish Festival of New York, 2019, he allocates much of that knowledge and experience to the protagonist, Tim Finnegan. Taking on the role and commanding the stage at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, award-winning actor Billy Meleady's masterful performance gives a solo piece the effect of an ensemble of players telling the story.
Fresh Ink Theatre Presents 2019/2020 Season Programming

Fresh Ink is pleased to announce six new plays as part of the 2019/2020 season! For our ninth year of developing and producing local new work, Fresh Ink will feature two plays as part of our full development cycle, with each script receiving a reading and workshop before a word premiere production in winter/spring 2020. In addition, we will showcase the work of four additional playwrights as part of our fall Ink Spot Festival, which we continue to expand as a platform for additional script development and a celebration of some of Boston's most exciting local writers.
Ensemble Studio Theatre Gala to Honor the Marathon of One-Act Plays

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE announces its 50th Birthday Gala honoring the people and legacy of EST's Marathon of One-Act Plays. The 50th Birthday Gala will take place on Monday, May 13, 2019 at 6:30PM at the New York Museum of Contemporary Art (528 West 39th Street, 3rd Fl.).

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