Professor Laura Neill Named a Boston Project Playwright

Courtesy of SpeakEasy Stage:

Having been named “Boston’s Best Launch Pad of 2018” by The Improper Bostonianmagazine, SpeakEasy’s Boston Project is back for a fourth season, featuring two brand new locally-set plays by playwrights MJ Halberstadt of Brookline and Laura Neill of Norwood.

Mr. Halberstadt will introduce us to Boston's last remaining queer bookstore in THE USUAL UNUSUAL. Ms. Neill will explore the reality of gentrification in downtown Boston in her play JUST CAUSE.

We are also thrilled to announce the return of Phaedra Michelle Scott, a 2017-18 Boston Project Playwright, who will continue development of her play DIASPORA!, which whichexplores questions of created identity and biological fact. Read the full announcement online.

The three Boston Project playwrights will each receive a commission and will have nine months to write and develop their proposed plays.