Marshall Botvinick

Marshall Botvinick

Marshall Botvinick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater educator. His plays have been developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Palm Beach Dramaworks, South Carolina Repertory Company and the Mid-America Theater Conference. He has also been a finalist for the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award and the Georgia College Arts & Letters Prize for Drama as well as a semifinalist for the Eugene O'...
Marshall Botvinick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater educator. His plays have been developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Palm Beach Dramaworks, South Carolina Repertory Company and the Mid-America Theater Conference. He has also been a finalist for the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award and the Georgia College Arts & Letters Prize for Drama as well as a semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Plays

  • The Hero and the Scholar by Marshall Botvinick
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: academic freedom, suicide + 2 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: academic freedom, suicide, mental illness, Greek tragedy
    Robert Malone has been a university professor for nearly three decades. But when one of his students mentions his lectures in a suicide note, he finds himself fighting for both his job and his innocence. Yet he can't help but wonder: Did I cause this? Are my words the reason a young man died?