Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive Director – Broadway Play Publishing Inc

20May5/20/2026

Lisa Sanaye Dring Builds Mind Palaces

Check out the new audio interview by Brian James Polak with BPPI author Lisa Sanaye Dring on American Theatre. The playwright and director from Hawaii and Nevada discusses DEATH PLAY, SUMO, yearning, loneliness, and the wisdom of accepting loss. Photo by Stephanie Girard.

May 20, 2026By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News

02Apr4/2/2026

Eric Overmyer Made Language Sit Up and Bark

The brilliant BPPI playwright Eric Overmyer, who died last week, is remembered fondly and reverentially by his colleague and fellow playwright Quincy Long in the latest issue of American Theatre: Eric Overmyer Made Language Sit Up and Bark.

April 2, 2026By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News

14Aug8/14/2025

George C White, Founder of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Has Died

George C White, Founder of Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, has died at 89. His summer conferences gave budding playwrights a chance to try out new works, many of which went on to success in New York. Read the New York Times obituary.

August 14, 2025By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News

06Jan1/6/2025

Congratulations to George Stevens, Jr., Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Congratulations to BPPI author of the inspiring THURGOOD, George Stevens, Jr., who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors, by President Joseph R Biden in a White House ceremony on January 4th, 2025.

January 6, 2025By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorAnnouncements, In the News

09Feb2/9/2024

Podcast: The Space Between Her Legs with Tiffany Antone

Check out this wonderful podcast with BPPI author Tiffany Antone about her play THE SPACE BETWEEN HER LEGS:

February 9, 2024By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News

31Jan1/31/2023

Hear Play Audio Production of THREE WISE GUYS

Check out the Hear Play audio production of THREE WISE GUYS by Scott Alan Evans and Jeffrey Couchman, based on the stories "Dancing Dan's Christmas" and "The Three Wise Guys" by Damon Runyon: https://www.hearplayaudiotheatre.com/three-wise-guys

January 31, 2023By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorAnnouncements

28Nov11/28/2022

How Megan Terry and Jo Ann Schmidman Made Magic in Omaha

How two veterans of New York's 1960s-'70s avant-garde theatre made edgy, alternative theatre in a conservative state, and what enduring lessons their example may hold out for others. You may not associate artists in the vanguard of American experimental theatre with Omaha, Neb., but that’s where Open Theater alums Megan Terry and Jo Ann Schmidman currently reside … Read the rest of the piece at American Theatre magazine. And check out their titles:

Approaching Simone
Babes in the Bighouse
Breakfast Serial
Goona Goona
Mollie Bailey's Traveling Family Circus: Featuring Scenes from the Life of Mother Jones
Objective Love
Plays by Megan Terry
Viet Rock

November 28, 2022By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News

19Jan1/19/2022

Jonathan Norton: A Sense of Place

The marvelously talented Dallas playwright Jonathan Norton, whose play penny candy has just been published, talks about his city, his writing, and the busy intersection of the two in the latest issue of American Theatre. Continue reading at the source: Jonathan Norton: A Sense of Place - American Theatre

January 19, 2022By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News

01Dec12/1/2021

Tony Kusher, Oracle of the Upper West Side

When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America's most important living playwright, to take on WEST SIDE STORY, he thought, "He's lost his mind." But he dared. Continue reading at the source: Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side - The New York Times

December 1, 2021By Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive DirectorIn the News