Boston Playwrights' Theatre Presents The Farm

The Farm marks Walt McGough's first production at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. A graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Boston University, Walt's plays have been performed at Boston's Orfeo Group, the Sideshow Theatre Company of Chicago, Chicago Dramatists, Nu Sass Productions in Washington, DC, and Chicago's Second City. Walt's 10-minute play, Two Sock's Discuss Loss, was performed at the 12th Annual Boston Theater Marathon in 2010. Last July, his play Priscilla Dreams the Answer won Washington, DC's 2011 Capital Fringe Festival Audience Award for Best Comedy.

*Actors appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Walt McGough's (playwright) plays include The Farm, Paper City Phoenix, True Places and Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird). Originally from Pittsburgh. Walt was a participant in the 2011 National New Play Network MFA Workshop, and a recipient of the Kennedy Center's 2010 Ken Ludwig Scholarship. This past summer he received the inaugural short-play commission from Playwrights Commons in Boston. He is a founding ensemble member of Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago, for whom he serves as Literary Manager, and currently works on staff at SpeakEasy Stage Company. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Boston University, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. For more information, visit www.waltmcgough.com

David R. Gammons (director) is a director, designer, visual artist, and theatre educator. He is thrilled to return to Boston Playwrights' Theatre, where he previously directed the premiere of John Kuntz's Elliot Norton award-winning The Salt Girl. Recent directing projects include the New England premieres of Cherry Docs, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and My Name is Rachel Corrie at The New Repertory Theatre; The Hotel Nepenthe, The Duchess of Malfi, and Titus Andronicus (2007 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director) for Actors' Shakespeare Project; The Winter's Tale as part of the Shakespeare Exploded Festival at the American Repertory Theater; Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro at Brandeis Theatre Company; and Blackbird for SpeakEasy Stage Company. David is a graduate of both the Directing Program at the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University. He has been Director of the Theatre Program at Concord Academy since 2000, where he directs a company of student artists committed to creating original experimental work, and with whom he has conceived and directed 11 world-premieres, including Sea of Troubles, LHOOQ, Double Negative, Howl, Permanent Fatal Errors, and FLUX. For more information, please visit davidrgammons.com

Boston Playwrights' Theatre presents
The Farm
written by Walt McGough
directed by David R. Gammons
September 29 - October 23, 2011

For tickets call 866.811.4111 or visit bostonplaywrights.org
$30/Reserved Admission - $25/Seniors (62+) - $10/Students (with valid ID)

Special Ground Floor Talk Back with the playwright and cast to follow the October 1 evening performance.

Thursday, September 29 at 7:30pm
Friday, September 30 at 8:00pm
Saturday, October 1 at 8:00pm
Sunday, October 2 at 2:00pm

Thursday, October 6 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 7 at 8:00pm
Saturday, October 8 at 8:00pm
Sunday, October 9 at 2:00pm

Thursday, October 13 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 14 at 8:00pm
Saturday, October 15 at 8:00pm
Sunday, October 16 at 2:00pm

Thursday, October 20 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 21 at 8:00pm
Saturday, October 22 at 8:00pm
Sunday, October 23 at 2:00pm
VENUE INFORMATION
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Green Line "B" to Pleasant Street, 57 Bus from Kenmore and Watertown.

Some street parking is available. Patrons are welcome to park in the lot beneath Harry Agganis Arena next door. Parking is just $2 an hour on most days but may be as much as $25 during concert events. Please visit agganisarena.com for parking rates.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre
Founded in 1981 at Boston University by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Boston Playwrights' Theatre is an award-winning professional theatre dedicated to new works. At the core of our five programs is the Playwriting MFA offered as part of Boston University's prestigious Creative Writing Program. Our award-winning alumni have been produced in Regional and New York houses as well as in London's West End, and our alumni productions have garnered many regional and Boston awards, including regular IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards for "Best New Script."

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