Boston-based Playwright
<p>MJ Halberstadt<span> comes to Boston by way of Long Island, NY. A member of the Dramatist Guild since 2008, he is an MFA candidate in Playwriting at Boston University, and an alumnus of Emerson College (BA Theatre Education 2010). He has had ten-minute and one-act plays produced by Another Country Productions, Boston Actors Theatre, CoLab Theatre, Happy Medium Theatre, StrangeDog Theatre, among others. His ten-minute play “Peggy’s Properties” was a Region 1 semi-finalist in the Kennedy Center ACTF this year and he has earned the EVVY Award for Outstanding Play (</span><em>Lethologica</em><span>), the StageSource Jack Welch scholarship, Young Playwrights Inc’s National Playwriting Contest and Boston University’s Creative Writing Global Fellowship in Playwriting which will support his playwriting efforts in Paris this fall.</span></p>