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.
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 3

  • Episode 11: Thirst

    Episode 11: Thirst

    S03 E02
    37:04

    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

    S03 E01
    38:05

    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

    S02 E03
    43:54

    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.

  • Episode 8: MFA Class of '25

    Explicit

    Episode 8: MFA Class of '25

    S02 E02
    46:46
    Explicit

    Darren sits down to talk with the new cohort of playwrights in the MFA Playwriting Program at BU: Tina Esper, Maggie Kearnan, Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens and Brandon Zang.

  • Episode 7: Megan Sandberg-Zakian and Nathan Davis

    Episode 7: Megan Sandberg-Zakian and Nathan Davis

    S02 E01
    43:24

    In the launch of our second season, we introduce you to new BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian and new head of the BU Playwriting Program Nathan Alan Davis as they discuss collaboration, education, and food (lots of food).