The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Allyson Dwyer as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2022 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Nothing Remained But Voice and Bones is a sharply-observed longitudinal study on the effects that internalized fatphobia and conventional beauty standards have on the life of a young woman. The piece is fantastically theatrical and refreshingly frank in its depiction of body image struggles. Our congratulations and thanks to Allyson.

A piece of theatre that gets to the heart of our society's obsession with thinness by looking at the life of one woman from her 20s to her 70s. The way time and stage magic is used is so effective at getting us in Mel's headspace.

Dwyer's script drives at it's core from all angles and across a lifetime. All roads lead to one overwhelming, highly relatable thought. The weight of this constant self-negging is crushing and so very real.