Playwright
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ~ Thornton Wilder (The Paris Review. 1956)
Selected Plays by Marty Bongfeldt …
“ALWAYS”
Professional productions include:
Berkshire Playwrights Lab in 2019, and in November 2020, a virtual production with the award winning covid-lockdown theatre company “Tiny-Theatre” (based in Florida).
“ALWAYS” is the winner of the 2018 Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize as well as BPL’s 2019 Radius Festival.
Winner of the 2018 Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize
This collection of FOUR SHORT PLAYS includes the ten minute play : “Moose & Grouse” (retitled “Glamour’d in the Woods”), which was a finalist in The Players Theatre (NYC) Short Play & Musical Festival; selected for their October 2019 “Boo!” production. “Glamour’d” was also presented virtually by the professional company: “Tiny-Theatre” (Florida), during covid lockdown.
Winner of the 2019 Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize
IN SESSION: OR My Life is Hell is a full-length play in one act. One reviewer described it as “…Damningly Humorous”
It has been presented by the Play Incubation Collective and by the Smith Theatre Department as part of their New Play Reading Series, hosted by Len Berkman.
“Having the Greysons …
… and other food for thought”
This collection of short plays includes:
Having the Greysons
Camping on the Cliff
Dealman’s Divinity
and *Yoga Studio (or To Your Point)
“Having the Greysons … and other food for thought” was an evening of short plays presented virtually in October of 2020 for the New Play Reading Series hosted by Len Berkman and the Smith College Theatre Department ( * “Yoga Studio,” an excerpt from that performance is included at left *)
Camping on the Cliff was performed in the late fall of 2020 by the award winning professional theatre company “Tiny-Theatre,” - a theatre that was born during covid-lockdown.