“Thank you, Ten!”


Ten Things to Know about Ten-Minute Plays

An online ten-minute playwriting workshop with Maggie Kearnan

Tuesday, October 1, from 6-9 p.m. on Zoom
FREE (limited to 25 participants)

What makes a good ten-minute play? This workshop will explore all the various aspects of crafting a ten-minute play, from structure to author’s intent and audience appeal. You’ll read, do some writing, and analyze the form to discover how to make it work for writers as artists and theatres as producers. This workshop is designed for writers of any age who are less experienced in the ten-minute form and who live in New England.

Maggie Kearnan is a Boston-based playwright and multi-hyphenate theater artist. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Her plays have been produced at Boston College, Newton Theater Company, KCACTF, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and Great Barrington Public Theater. She is also a director, performer, educator, and scenic artist with a small TikTok following, sharing tips for painting theatrical sets for theater educators with limited resources. Maggie writes about characters clumsily trying to make the world a better place. Her plays have ghosts, murder, primal screams, Catholic guilt, and climate anxiety, but also nature, music, dance, laughter, friendship, and family. She is the first runner-up for the Earth Matters on Stage Festival 2025-26 and a Clauder Competition Winner. Her dark political satire How to -Not- Save the World with Mr. Bezos was produced in the Boston Playwrights' Theatre Fall Rep Festival in November 2024, and opened the 2025 summer season at Great Barrington Public Theater. Her Clauder Competition-winning play Like Flies will have a world premiere at Portland Stage in 2026.