Greg Hovanesian

Greg Hovanesian is a playwright, actor and theatre producer based in Boston, MA. His works have been produced and/or developed by Gallery Players, the Nora Theatre Company (Boston Theater Marathon XXI), Boston Actors Theater, the UAE Theatre Festival, the One-Minute Play Festival, Jacklyn Thrapp LLC, Jakespeare Virtual Theatre Company, Image Theater, Target Stage Company (Boston Theater Marathon XXII) Playwrights' Platform, Hovey Players, the Huntington Theatre Company (2019 Playwright Bake-Off), River's Edge Arts Alliance, Centastage, Weekend Writers Workshop, Generic Theater, and others. His plays have been published in anthologies by Smith and Kraus, New World Theatre, and Playwrights' Platform Publishing. He has produced plays at the Rockwell (Somerville, MA) and the Players' Ring Theatre (Portsmouth, NH) with his company, Ya Bird? Productions. In 2016 his play one-act play WATER won Best Play at the Playwrights' Platform's Annual Festival of New Plays. Greg is also an actor who was awarded Best Actor at the 2016 Playwrights’ Platform Festival of New Plays. He is Social Media Coordinator for the New England New Play Alliance, was President of Playwrights' Platform from 2018-2021, and he belongs to StageSource and the Dramatists Guild of America. Learn more at greghovanesian.com.

Website: https://greghovanesian.com

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The Eighteenth Quinquennial Endlings Picnic

by Jillian Blevins

Wow. There’s a lot packed into this little 10-minute play. There’s wonderful banter as the characters navigate themselves through a hopeless situation. In many ways the animals represent people who face shared problems, but disagree on solutions. I was very moved by this play.

Wow. There’s a lot packed into this little 10-minute play. There’s wonderful banter as the characters navigate themselves through a hopeless situation. In many ways the animals represent people who face shared problems, but disagree on solutions. I was very moved by this play.
THE HIRELING

by R. D. Murphy

This play is lots of fun! There is good banter between interesting characters, both human and non-human. In these times we're living through, it's important to take dark subjects, e.g. alien invasion and potential world destruction, and have some fun with them. And Murphy's play does just that! Check this out if you're looking a good dark comedy about language and its intricacies, restaurant franchise management skills, and the end of the world as we know it.

This play is lots of fun! There is good banter between interesting characters, both human and non-human. In these times we're living through, it's important to take dark subjects, e.g. alien invasion and potential world destruction, and have some fun with them. And Murphy's play does just that! Check this out if you're looking a good dark comedy about language and its intricacies, restaurant franchise management skills, and the end of the world as we know it.
That Kind of Boy [a 1-minute play]

by Steven G. Martin

Wow! What a beautiful little play. Wonderful.

Wow! What a beautiful little play. Wonderful.
Misplaced

by Cassie M. Seinuk

There is something incredibly ‘human’, for lack of a better word, about Cassie M. Seinuk’s MISPLACED. At the core of this play is pain and loss: and yet it is surrounded by a beautiful ‘humaness’, as two adults who once knew each other work their way through a gauntlet of emotions - anger, surprise, regret, sadness, laughter - to come together anew. I’m so glad I was able to see this performed as part of Boston Theater Marathon XXII, Zoom Edition, 2020.

There is something incredibly ‘human’, for lack of a better word, about Cassie M. Seinuk’s MISPLACED. At the core of this play is pain and loss: and yet it is surrounded by a beautiful ‘humaness’, as two adults who once knew each other work their way through a gauntlet of emotions - anger, surprise, regret, sadness, laughter - to come together anew. I’m so glad I was able to see this performed as part of Boston Theater Marathon XXII, Zoom Edition, 2020.
Happy Hour

by John Bavoso

This play is heart-breaking: a story of two women who have battled the same demons in different ways. And yet, as sad and terrible as their stories are, it is uplifting: a story of friendship, and the connections people make to end the pain of past scars. John Bavoso has written a wonderful 10-minute play.

This play is heart-breaking: a story of two women who have battled the same demons in different ways. And yet, as sad and terrible as their stories are, it is uplifting: a story of friendship, and the connections people make to end the pain of past scars. John Bavoso has written a wonderful 10-minute play.

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Greg Hovanesian

Scripts

The Eighteenth Quinquennial Endlings Picnic

THE HIRELING

That Kind of Boy [a 1-minute play]

Misplaced

Happy Hour