Thrilled to be a
2019-2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing
Equally chuffed that Queen of Sad Mischance was
Winner of the 2020 New American Voices Festival
and Gold Prize Winner in the 2019 Clauder Competition
And that
Closing Doors has won the Honegger Prize
at the Firehouse Center for the Arts,
Best Play at the North Park Playwrights Festival in San Diego, and has been selected for the 2020 Samuel French/Concord Theatricals OOB Festival
and named a finalist for the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting
And not to shabby that my short Rising Sophomore
is now published and licensed by YouthPLAYS.
Scripts available for download on the New Play Exchange
or by emailing me via the button at the top of this page
Thanks to all who came to see NOIR HAMLET
at the Edinburgh Fringe
Great houses, great reviews, and so much laughter
NOIR HAMLET is next up at Advice to the Players in Sandwich NH, August 21-22, 2020 and Pegasus Theatre in Dallas, August 2021
Thanks to Hey Jonte! Productions for the brilliant NYC production of
Breaking the Shakespeare Code in May-June 2019!
"...splendidly funny and smart"
Jed Ryan,
lavenderafterdark.com
"Breaking the Shakespeare Code is thrilling. It is also thrillingly well-crafted. John Minigan’s dialogue is fast paced, quippy, and profound."
Kenneth Laboy,
TheaterThatMatters.com
photo, Ben Asen
Breaking the Shakespeare Code in May-June 2019!
"...splendidly funny and smart"
Jed Ryan,
lavenderafterdark.com
"Breaking the Shakespeare Code is thrilling. It is also thrillingly well-crafted. John Minigan’s dialogue is fast paced, quippy, and profound."
Kenneth Laboy,
TheaterThatMatters.com
photo, Ben Asen
What the critics have said about the Elliot Norton Outstanding New Script nominee
Noir Hamlet,
EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater, 2018!
Boston Globe Critics' Pick
"Pitch-perfect comedy"
--BroadwayBaby.com
"Highly recommend[ed]…very, very clever… extremely funny… wicked fun”
--Jared Bowen, WGBH-Boston, Arts This Week
"A 90-minute side-splitter...It's been going on three years since the last Centastage production, but the wait has been worth it."
--Killian Melloy, EdgeMedia.com
"A wacky, whiskey soaked send-up...hilarious mayhem"
--Beverly Creasey, Boston Arts Review
"Very funny...Highly recommended"
Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe
What the press said about Hey Jonte's 2014 NY Fringe production of
Breaking the Shakespeare Code and Vagabond's 2014 Boston production
(2014 Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Outstanding New Script produced in Boston)
"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 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
For full reviews click on the links above or go to the LINKS page.
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Vagabond Theatre Group's production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code, The Factory Theatre, Boston, March 2014.
Photo by Paul Cantillon
Photo by Paul Cantillon
Good Company Theater's production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code, Ogden UT, 2013. Photo by Alicia Washington
Book release event for the New England New Play Anthology,
with (seated) Kirsten Greenidge, MJ Halberstadt, Johnny Kuntz and (standing) editors Patrick Gabridge and Laura Neill
About Family Planning
"The play that ends the 'Fears and Phobias' compilation is 'Family Planning' by John Minigan.
To me, it was the most potent."
CityPulse, Lansing, MI
To me, it was the most potent."
CityPulse, Lansing, MI
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 sleight 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 sleight 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
About A Monogamy of Swans
"An absurd, interesting, heartfelt and viciously funny play."
Bryan Stubbles, Front Row Reviewers Utah
Bryan Stubbles, Front Row Reviewers Utah
