Mary Beth won the Peter Honegger Best Play award for Keep A-breast
a play that offers insight to her bizarre experiences surviving breast cancer.
"Keep A-breast " was performed in The Firehouse Center for the Arts' 2014 New Works Festival during which she received the award.
Her latest play, Rants and Tangents, showcases a woman of a certain age, surrounded by the long shadows of men, and her long line of encounters with them.
Withdrawals, her one-act play that takes on addiction and its toll on relationships, has been taught in Community Colleges and the program, Changing Lives for Literature, thoughout Boston and surrounding communities.
Her other plays include The Experiment and The Mouse performed at the Fire Dog Theatre, Arlington, MA; Weights and Measures and Galileo's Dowry performed at the Universal Theatre, Provincetown, MA; An Hour at Sea commissioned by The Annie, Gloucester, MA; Buddhists in the Basement, Withdrawals and Mirror Mirror Off the Wall performed in Marblehead Little Theatre's TNT Festival; Buddhists in the Basement appeared in Pigs Do Fly's Fifty Plus production Empire Stage, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the Warner International Playwrights Festival at the Warner Theatre in Torrington, Connecticut.
Mary Beth participated in Random Acts at the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 12 hours from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., she partnered with a complete stranger to write "Pretty Things" in 2013, "Open Mike" in 2014. and "Osso Buco" in 2016.
She's a member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild.
At her Blackburn Studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Mary Beth binds artists books to combine the written word with soft cotton paper , photos, images, lovely endpapers, random memories and spurts of epiphanies.
Mary Beth lives with a fair measure of contentment in Rockport, Massachusetts, with George, her husband and life support.
a play that offers insight to her bizarre experiences surviving breast cancer.
"Keep A-breast " was performed in The Firehouse Center for the Arts' 2014 New Works Festival during which she received the award.
Her latest play, Rants and Tangents, showcases a woman of a certain age, surrounded by the long shadows of men, and her long line of encounters with them.
Withdrawals, her one-act play that takes on addiction and its toll on relationships, has been taught in Community Colleges and the program, Changing Lives for Literature, thoughout Boston and surrounding communities.
Her other plays include The Experiment and The Mouse performed at the Fire Dog Theatre, Arlington, MA; Weights and Measures and Galileo's Dowry performed at the Universal Theatre, Provincetown, MA; An Hour at Sea commissioned by The Annie, Gloucester, MA; Buddhists in the Basement, Withdrawals and Mirror Mirror Off the Wall performed in Marblehead Little Theatre's TNT Festival; Buddhists in the Basement appeared in Pigs Do Fly's Fifty Plus production Empire Stage, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the Warner International Playwrights Festival at the Warner Theatre in Torrington, Connecticut.
Mary Beth participated in Random Acts at the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 12 hours from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., she partnered with a complete stranger to write "Pretty Things" in 2013, "Open Mike" in 2014. and "Osso Buco" in 2016.
She's a member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild.
At her Blackburn Studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Mary Beth binds artists books to combine the written word with soft cotton paper , photos, images, lovely endpapers, random memories and spurts of epiphanies.
Mary Beth lives with a fair measure of contentment in Rockport, Massachusetts, with George, her husband and life support.