I'm thrilled to be named a Dramatic Writing Fellowship Finalist Grant Recipient for 2017 by the Massachusetts Cultural Council
The Queen of Sad Mischance has been named winner of the
2016 New Works Festival at the
Firehouse Center for the Arts
Easter at the Entrée Gold will be included
in the Best American Short Plays Anthology,
the New England New Play Anthology,
and New World Theatre's It's Academic Anthology
The Maltese Walter is included in the
2016 Best Ten-minute plays Anthology from Smith & KRaus
It's the Jews will be included in Dramatists play Service's
Outstanding Short Plays, Volume 4
and
Noise is included in the Smith & Kraus five-minute play anthology
(Quinton Kappel's film of Noise can be seen here)
click here for my interview With Adam Symcowicz
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What the press says about Breaking the Shakespeare Code
(2014 Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Outstanding New Script produced in Boston and
official selection of the 2014 NY Fringe Festival)
"Compelling... One of the finest plays you'll see at Fringe this season."
Pete Hempstead, theatermania.com
"Prepare to be blown away...John Minigan’s Breaking the Shakespeare Code is bold, brutal, brave, beguiling and brilliant."
David Roberts and Joseph Verlezza, NY Fringe Festival Review, theatrereviews.com
"Engrossing and delicious fun."
Cindy Pierre, NY Fringe Festival Review, fringereview.co.uk
"I hope [this production] has a future beyond FringeNYC as smart plays are in short supply these days."
David Lally, nytheaternow.com
"[Minigan] creates a taut (and fraught) intellectual and sexual connection between the two characters... The script ... pierces like a javelin into essential, central truths... A literate, flinty, insightful script."
Kilian Melloy, EDGE
"Pick of the Fringe ... outstanding"
fringereviewus.wordpress.com
"A taut relationship drama about a series of acting lessons that turn into emotional duels... The kind of tense entanglement that happens in real life but rarely onstage..."
Ellen Fagg, Salt Lake Tribune
"A great new play... Top notch... The play unfolds in three sections that cover 16 years in this relationship, and it's a real roller-coaster."
Joyce Kulhawik, joyceschoices.com, Boston
"...A serious comedy... Educating Rita transferred to the rehearsal room, made a little weightier and quite a
bit meatier, too... Minigan's two characters are terrifically appealing..."
Elizabeth Maupin, The Orlando Sentinel
For full reviews click on the links above or go to the LINKS page.
Pete Hempstead, theatermania.com
"Prepare to be blown away...John Minigan’s Breaking the Shakespeare Code is bold, brutal, brave, beguiling and brilliant."
David Roberts and Joseph Verlezza, NY Fringe Festival Review, theatrereviews.com
"Engrossing and delicious fun."
Cindy Pierre, NY Fringe Festival Review, fringereview.co.uk
"I hope [this production] has a future beyond FringeNYC as smart plays are in short supply these days."
David Lally, nytheaternow.com
"[Minigan] creates a taut (and fraught) intellectual and sexual connection between the two characters... The script ... pierces like a javelin into essential, central truths... A literate, flinty, insightful script."
Kilian Melloy, EDGE
"Pick of the Fringe ... outstanding"
fringereviewus.wordpress.com
"A taut relationship drama about a series of acting lessons that turn into emotional duels... The kind of tense entanglement that happens in real life but rarely onstage..."
Ellen Fagg, Salt Lake Tribune
"A great new play... Top notch... The play unfolds in three sections that cover 16 years in this relationship, and it's a real roller-coaster."
Joyce Kulhawik, joyceschoices.com, Boston
"...A serious comedy... Educating Rita transferred to the rehearsal room, made a little weightier and quite a
bit meatier, too... Minigan's two characters are terrifically appealing..."
Elizabeth Maupin, The Orlando Sentinel
For full reviews click on the links above or go to the LINKS page.
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Breaking the Shakespeare Code in rehearsal for video shoot. Hey Jonte! Productions LLC, Lincoln Center, NY, January 2014
Simon Raymundo Photography 2013
Simon Raymundo Photography 2013
Vagabond Theatre Group's production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code, The Factory Theatre, Boston, March 2014.
Photo by Paul Cantillon
Photo by Paul Cantillon
Breaking the Shakespeare Code in rehearsal, Good Company Theatre, Ogden, UT, October 2013
ABOUT NOISE
"...a Beckett-flavored comedy routine with a deceptively complex text"
The Pittsburgh Press
The Pittsburgh Press
ABOUT THE MALTESE WALTER
"... a tour-de-force"
John Farrell, presstelegram.com
"uproarious... what Minigan does best is [use] the comedy as a slight of hand that distracts from a completely unexpected climax"
grumpygaycritic.co.uk
"... a mix of Sigmund Freud and Dashiell Hammett, and maybe even Walter Mitty"
Bondo Wyszpolski, easyreadernews.com
John Farrell, presstelegram.com
"uproarious... what Minigan does best is [use] the comedy as a slight of hand that distracts from a completely unexpected climax"
grumpygaycritic.co.uk
"... a mix of Sigmund Freud and Dashiell Hammett, and maybe even Walter Mitty"
Bondo Wyszpolski, easyreadernews.com
