Congratulations to our BFA and MFA Classes of 2026 on your graduation!
We enjoyed celebrating with you and your loved ones on Tuesday, alongside alumni speaker Matt Rogers (BFA ’12) mattrogerstho and student speakers Kai Macapinlac (BFA) and Elliot Connors (MFA)
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Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
The Story of the Flood
By: Jacqueline McLaren (MFA ‘27)
‘The Story of the Flood’ is about mothers and daughters. It’s also about white wine, inconvenient uncles, ill-constructed beach houses, and learning to really see another person. But mostly, it’s about mothers and daughters.
Jacqueline McLaren is an MFA student in New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing, class of 2027. Her play Scottish Sperm premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was subsequently selected for Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival the following year. McLaren wrote and produced the documentary Unfightable, which received a theatrical run before premiering on television in English on Fuse and in Spanish on ViX (Univision’s streaming service). Unfightable was entered into the archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. McLaren has written for television and digital ads, including for the American Kennel Club which aired on ESPN and received the Bronze Telly Award. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, her play How to Build a Bomb won the Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Award.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
Stacks
By: Andrea Cárdenas (MFA ‘27)
Two librarians must decide whether they will let a man named Richard divide them.
Andrea Cárdenas is a writer and performer who loves to make people laugh. Her play, The Product, premiered at Ars Nova last year where she was also an Artist in Residence. Andrea’s work has been featured at NewFest, New York Comedy Festival, and at various performance spaces across NYC and LA. She’s having a great time at NYU!
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
Little Intimacies
By: Fleurette Modica (MFA ‘27)
In the style of ‘Love and Information’ by Caryl Churchill, ‘Little Intimacies’ presents a series of vignettes about love and intimacy. As the audience is offered glimpses into private moments between various characters, they are given the opportunity to intrude upon the most intimate conversations lovers have, both earth-shattering and mundane.
Fleurette Modica (she/her) is a writer, performer, and composer based in New York City. She is the co-creator of the indie web series Shrews, now streaming on YouTube. Her plays have been performed around New York City and she was a winner of the 2024 Red Bull Theater Short New Play Competition for her play daphne and laurel, which was recently published in “The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2025” by Smith & Kraus. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the National Theater Institute, Fleurette is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU. She is a two-time semifinalist in the Comedy/Novelty category of the International Songwriting Competition. Find out more about her work at
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
ŞARAP
By: İlayda Mcintosh (MFA ‘27)
A local winemaker and a businesswoman meet under the Aegean sun, searching for connection between ancestral vines.
İlayda Mcintosh is a London-made, Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, actor and storyteller of Jamaican and Turkish heritage. She studied BA (Hons) English & Drama at Queen Mary University of London, graduating in 2019. She is currently completing her MFA Dramatic Writing Studies at TISCH School of the Arts, NYU.
İlayda joined the National Youth Theatre in 2021, Talawa Theatre Company’s Introductory Writing Group in and Associate Artist at Nouveau Riche in 2022. In 2023, she completed Soho Theatre Writers Lab and Alumni Group 2024. Her debut play, Hummingbird, previewed at Blue Elephant Theatre as part of Elephantology Festival 2023. Hummingbird went on to win the Mustapha Matura Award 2024; it has since been longlisted for the Tony Craze Award and Ilfield Prize.
İlayda is also the co-founder and co-artistic director of Honey Theatre. A creative production company and community, championing bold storytellers of the Global Majority across London and New York. With Honey Theatre, İlayda has facilitated multiple showcases, productions, writers development programmes, an intergenerational theatre group and more across both cities.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
Funny Farm
By: Shannon Simon (BFA ‘27)
Carter turns 24 at the psych ward. Her mother comes to visit. They eat pancakes.
Hi! I’m Shannon Simon and I’m a current Junior in the department of Dramatic Writing. I’m originally from Dallas, Texas (go Cowboys), and I love listening to podcasts, my dog Stanley, and the thrill of submitting things close to the deadline.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
Kevin Carpet
By: Jacqueline Pothier (MFA ‘26)
Kevin Carpet is the last great artifact of the downtown New York party scene. And Theo has just one duty(?), Responsibility(?), Job(?), honor(!)- he must step on Kevin Carpet and maybe by stepping on him will Theo finally become a man.
JACQUELINE POTHIER is a playwright and screenwriter whose darkly comic work explores grief, estrangement, and ambition in surreal and fantastical settings.
Jac is currently a second year in the Dramatic Writing Masters program at NYU where she is the recipient of the Dalio Family scholarship. She is the winner of the 2026 Fusion Film Festival award for best Graduate Half-hour Pilot, Winner of the Princeton University Mallach Thesis Fund and Berl Thesis Fund, and Princeton’s Outstanding Creative Writing Award. Jac currently serves as the creative and administrative assistant to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00 pm, for our fourth annual Festival of Short Works!
We will be presenting the following six short pieces, across mediums, highlighting students from our BFA and MFA programs.
* Kevin Carpet by Jacqueline Pothier
* Funny Farm by Shannon Simon
* Şarap by İlayda McIntosh
* Little Intimacies by Fleurette Modica
* Stacks by Andrea Cárdenas
* The Story of the Flood by Jacqueline McLaren
Students: check your email for the RSVP link!
Huge congratulations to Lev Brodinsky (MFA ‘26) for being awarded the 2025 Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship! He was selected for his compelling thesis feature, 'Thank You For Your Service' by the Missouri Film Office. We are so proud to see our students earning recognition for their powerful storytelling! ✍️🎬
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Interested in learning the fade in and fade outs of screenwriting! Learn character, dialogue, and story for film in Screenwriting 1! And if you want to expand on your skills with a feature, join Screenwriting 2! (Note: You can only apply to Screenwriting 2 if you’ve taken Screenwriting 1)!
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Want to be the next amazing playwright, or the next big screenwriter? Have a great idea but don’t know how to put pen to paper? Join Intro To Dramatic Writing, or Screenwriting 1 to learn the ABC’s of dramatic writing, and what makes a great story!
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