Marshall Botvinick

Marshall Botvinick

Marshall Botvinick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater educator based in North Carolina. His plays have been developed at Theatre Ariel, Jewish Plays Project, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Palm Beach Dramaworks, South Carolina Repertory Company, ATHE New Play Development Workshop, and the Mid-America Theater Conference. He has also been a finalist for the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award, ATHE Judith...
Marshall Botvinick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater educator based in North Carolina. His plays have been developed at Theatre Ariel, Jewish Plays Project, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Palm Beach Dramaworks, South Carolina Repertory Company, ATHE New Play Development Workshop, and the Mid-America Theater Conference. He has also been a finalist for the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award, ATHE Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award, and the Georgia College Arts & Letters Prize for Drama as well as a two-time semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.

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?
  • To Reach Across a River by Marshall Botvinick
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama, faith-based
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    Keyword: fertility issues, adoption + 1 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based
    Keyword: fertility issues, adoption, judaism
    Yehudis and her husband spend years struggling with infertility. After her marriage falls apart, she decides to adopt a biracial girl, forever altering her relationship with the ultra-Orthodox community she grew up in.