Typecast: Boston's New Play Podcast

by Darren Evans

TYPECAST is the brainchild of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at Boston University, the home for new plays in Boston. In this new series, we’ll be diving deep into the new play ecosystem of Beantown, talking with playwrights, directors, actors, and theatremakers of all types about the process of bringing a new play into the world.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 4

  • S4E2 - Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens & Brandon Zang

    S4E2 - Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens & Brandon Zang

    MFA Playwriting candidates Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens & Brandon Zang join host Darren Evans to discuss their plays "The Fig Tree and The Phoenix and The Desire to be Reborn" and "The Recursion of a Moth." The plays are being presented in a rep festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in February-March 2025. This episode's sponsor: The DeStalker.

  • Season 4 - Episode 1: Maggie Kearnan & Tina Esper

    Explicit

    Season 4 - Episode 1: Maggie Kearnan & Tina Esper

    Explicit

    MFA Playwriting candidates Maggie Kearnan & Tina Esper join host Darren Evans to discuss their upcoming plays "How to NOT Save the World with Mr. Bezos" and "Soft Star." The plays will be presented in a rep festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in November 2024. This episode's sponsor: MËTJÜS.

  • Season 3

  • Episode 11: Thirst

    Episode 11: Thirst

    Join host Darren Evans with playwright Ronán Noone and Lyric Stage Company of Boston's Courtney O'Connor, as we discuss "Thirst," Ronán's play this is being produced at the Lyric under Courtney's direction. We touch on the immigrant experience, Eugene O'Neill, writing, producing and selling new plays, and indulge in a competitive trivia (drinking) game.

  • Episode 10: The Interrobangers

    Episode 10: The Interrobangers

    We are joined by writer M Sloth Levine and Director Josh Glenn-Kayden, the masterminds behind Company One Theatre's premiere of "The Interrobangers," a queer coming of age mystery that riffs on a certain classic Saturday morning cartoon staple.

  • Season 2

  • Episode 9: Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and Karen Perlow

    Episode 9: Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and Karen Perlow

    In this episode, director Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and designer Karen Perlow talk about the design process for new plays and compete head to head in a game of made of up definitions.