Generously supported by the Rudy Fund, this event features work written by MIT students and directed by Wesley Savick.
Playwrights-in-Performance annually offers advanced playwriting students the unique opportunity to rehearse and present their original plays under the direction of professional playwright and director.
Evening Performances
Thursday 5/11, Friday 5/12, Saturday 5/13 | 8:00 - 10:00 PM
Captain Moby by Erica Green
Melanie Abrams as Moby
Kollin Wasserlein as Rod
Kate Yee as Maya
Street Corner Apocalypse by Colin Aitken
Raine Hasskew as Steve
David Favella as Ryan
Grace Kuffner as Sierra
Baby Bird by Amelia Smith
Zoe Sheinkopf as Mimi
Tal Scully as Adult
Noelle Colant as Peer
Working Title by Kollin Wasserlein
Wick Egan as Narrator
Sean Noriega as Writer
Matinee Performances
Saturday 5/13, Sunday 5/14 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Escape by Raine Hasskew
Amelia Smith as Prisoner
Robert Thorpe II as Captive
Unspoken by Kacie Bawiec
Amelia Smith as Sylva
Noelle Colant as Karla
The Patron Saint of Misfits & Lonely Hearts by Will Grey
Jaz Harris as Mom
Will Grey as Son
Unpacking by Zoe Sheinkopf
Amelia Smith as Angie
Victoria Longe as Jade
Colin Aitken as Owen
Tricia Shi as Voice
Severe Traumatic Soul Injury by Charlie Andrews
Cody Winkleblack as Evan
Noelle Colant as Danielle and Tara
Robert Thorpe II as Stage Nurse and Scot
Colin Aitken as Guard, Josh, and Jack
Kacie Bawiec as Dr. Peruzzi and Mom
Charlie Andrews as Charlie
Insignificant Emergency by Noelle Colant
Peter Duerst as Jim
Tal Scully as Carla
Mary Dahl as Kelly
About Wesley Savick
Wesley Savick holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Marquette University and ABD at Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre. He is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and the Directors Project of the Drama League of New York. Savick received an Individual Artists Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture, enabling me to live in Japan for a year to study noh and kabuki theatre techniques as well as nagauta shamisen, takebue and nohkan. He has directed over 55 professional productions and has written the book and libretto for an opera based on the life of Liberace as well as theatre pieces based on Edgar Allen Poe; the medieval mystic Margery Kempe, former U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan; and historian and social activist Howard Zinn (Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire). Savick has directed Theatre Department Productions’ Boston premiere of Len Jenkin’s Pilgrims of the Night, Peter Brook’s The Conference of the Birds, Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, and my own adaptations of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco and The Suicide by Nicolai Erdman. He has directed Boston Playwright Theatre productions of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Walker, Payne Ratner’s Infestation, Ronan Noone’s The Blowin of Baile Galle, (Elliot Norton Award for “Best New Script) and Russel Lees’ Monticel’ and Kate Snodgrass’ Glider. Savick has also acted in the BPT premiere of Haymarket by Zayd Dohrn. He directed the premiere of Shel Silverstein’s Signs of Trouble at the Market Theatre and the touring production of Friendship of the Sea at North Shore Music Theatre, and also directed the New England premiere of Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Payomet Theater in Cape Cod.
