MOLLY RICE
Artistic Director of RealTime Interventions, is a playwright/ songwriter/experience designer whose work has been developed and produced across the country. Her work and articles about her work can be seen in American Theater Magazine, The Dramatist, Dramatics Magazine, Kenyon Review, Play: A Journal, Indie Theater Now, Clarkson Potter Press, Heinemann Press, and various local and national news sources including the New York Times. Honors and awards include Brown University’s Weston Prize for Playwriting, Women’s International Theater Festival, PONY award (finalist), Princess Grace Award (finalist), O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (2-time finalist), nominations for the New York Innovative Theater Awards, the Pittsburgh Mayor’s Award for Public Art, and the Kesselring Fellowship, and participation in the Montclair and Pace New Works Initiatives with director Rachel Chavkin and composer Orion Johnstone. Projects include Khuraki, a theatrical collaboration with Afghan refugees; Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers (book, music and lyrics); digital shows A Doll House (in a Dollhouse), ASSOCIATE and INSPIRE; Futurity: A Musical by the Lisps (book co-writer, additional text and story) at American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, 2012) and Soho Rep (NYC, 2015; Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Musical, 2016); and THE SAINTS TOUR, a site-specific traveling play that has appeared in neighborhoods across the country since 2009. Over the years THE SAINTS TOUR has incorporated the talents of diverse artists such as Macarthur Fellow Taylor Mac, Rachel Chavkin, and Dave Malloy (all Tony nominees/ winners); musicians Lady Rizo, Tyrone Cotton, Heather Christian, and Rick Burkhardt; celebrated visual artists Vanessa German (Don Tyson Award winner, 2018), Lenka Clayton (Guggenheim Social Practice Grant recipient), David Pohl, Lindsey Scherloum, and James Simon; and community organizations like the Salvation Army, Grow Pittsburgh, Judson Memorial Church, and Cherry Lane Theater, among others. Molly currently teaches Playwriting in the Point Park Writing for Screen and Stage MFA program. She is a longtime musician/ songwriter. When she was 18 one of her songs made the Top 100 Charts in Alaska. She still doesn’t know what number it was.