Home of the Brave

MRT: It’s A Wonderful Life (Lana Sherwood). Regional: Tall Girls (World Premiere), Spoon Lake Blues (World Premiere), Alliance Theatre; Bob: A Life in Five Acts, Geva Theatre; Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), As You Like It (Rosalind), Twelfth Night (Viola), Atlanta Shakespeare Company. Education: BFA, Savannah College of Art and Design. Other: 2015 Alliance Theatre Artistic Fellow; co-founder of The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, a collective of female artists in Atlanta.

MRT: The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Blithe Spirit. Broadway: understudied and performed the role of Amanda Wingfield in John Tiffany’s revival of The Glass Menagerie. Regional: Sorry, That Hopey Changey Thing, Doubt, Stoneham Theatre; Sweet and Sad, Gloucester Stage; Ulysses on Bottles (with Israeli Stage), Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Lyric Stage; Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Soldier’s Carol (narrated the premiere), Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Boston Pops; Ether Dome, Ryan Landry’s M, Good People, Bus Stop, All My Sons, A Civil War Christmas, Huntington Theatre Co.; Other Desert Cities, The Drowsy Chaperone, Speakeasy Stage; Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Long Day’s Journey Into Night, boom, New Repertory Theatre; Superior Donuts, Lyric Stage; The Color of Rose, ArtsEmerson; Two Wives in India, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre;  The Snow Queen, Third, Portland Stage, various shows at Hartford Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and the Vineyard Playhouse. A founding company member of the American Repertory Theatre, she appeared in 73 productions, including Endgame, The Sea Gull, Mother Courage, Island of Slaves, No Exit, Olly’s Prison, Highway Ulysses, Othello and The Imaginary Invalid. Nationally she has worked extensively, from Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre to Berkeley Repertory Theatre. International: Appeared at festivals in Asti, Avignon, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Israel and the former Yugoslavia. Education: Graduate of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, she was a Monan Professor at Boston College and teaches Acting at Harvard University. Other: Her directing credits include Gidion’s Knot, Bridge Rep; An Ideal Husband, Woman in Black, Gloucester Stage; Dressed Up! Wigged Out!!, Boston Playwrights Theatre. Recipient of several Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for her performances. In 2010, Ms. MacDonald received both the Robert Brustein Award for Sustained Achievement in the Theatre and the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.

MRT: Debut New York: Well, Public; From Up Here, MTC; The Rock Garden, Drama League Directorfest; Permanent Visitor, New Georges; A Beautiful Child, NY Fringe; Born of Conviction, White Bird Prods. Regional: The 39 Steps, Geva; The Ver**on Play, Pride and Prejudice, ATL; Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, Two River; Well, ACT; The Pavilion, City Theatre. Film: The Girl in the Book, Untitled Colin Warner Project, A Birder's Guide to Everything. TV: Limitless, Girls, Boardwalk Empire, Nurse Jackie, Law & Order, White Collar. Other: Member of the Actors Center.

Lila Rose Kaplan writes heartfelt comedies, bittersweet dramas, and musicals for young people. Her play Wildflower made its Off-Broadway debut at Second Stage Uptown and was published by Dramatists Play Service. Her other works include The Magician’s Daughter, 1 2 3 – a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing, Home of the Brave, The Light Princess, We All Fall Down, 100 Planes, Bureau of Missing Persons, and Tink. Her plays have been produced by Second Stage Uptown, A.R.T., The New Victory Theatre, The Old Vic, Perishable Theatre, Know Theatre, Chalk Rep, Fresh Ink, Launch Pad, Neighborhood Productions, and La Jolla Playhouse/Moving Arts. Her plays have been developed by The Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Center Theatre Group, The Playwrights Realm, Theatreworks, PlayPenn, and The Lark among others. Awards and Fellowships include The National Science Award in Playwriting, The International Women's Playwriting Award, The Old Vic/New Voices T.S. Eliot Exchange, and The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellows. Lila Rose has been Playwright-in-Residence at Cornerstone Theatre Company, Harvard Business School, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. She is a graduate of Brown University and she received her MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego. Lila Rose lives in Cambridge with her marine biologist and two cats. She is a Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow. www.lilarose.org