Marshall Botvinick

Marshall Botvinick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater educator based in North Carolina. His plays have been developed at Playhouse on the Square, 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.

Marshall Botvinick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater educator based in North Carolina. His plays have been developed at Playhouse on the Square, 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.

Scripts

To Reach Across a River

by Marshall Botvinick

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
faith-based

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.

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.

The Hero and the Scholar

by Marshall Botvinick

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
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?

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?

The Missionaries

by Marshall Botvinick

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

Eighteen years ago, Jeremy and Meredith became Yirmiyahu and Miriam. They left rural Maryland behind and moved to Jerusalem to pursue their dream of evangelizing the Hasidic community. But dreams don't always go as planned, and sometimes the people you came to change end up changing you. Now with Miriam staring down a terminal cancer diagnosis, Yirmiyahu and Miriam must explain to their teenage daughter, Esther...

Eighteen years ago, Jeremy and Meredith became Yirmiyahu and Miriam. They left rural Maryland behind and moved to Jerusalem to pursue their dream of evangelizing the Hasidic community. But dreams don't always go as planned, and sometimes the people you came to change end up changing you. Now with Miriam staring down a terminal cancer diagnosis, Yirmiyahu and Miriam must explain to their teenage daughter, Esther, who they are and why they made the choices they did. Inspired by actual events, this is a play about faith, identity, and the things we trick ourselves into believing.

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