5/09 I received my M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Nonfiction at The New School, NYC (to go with my M.A. in Creative Writing/Playwriting at Boston University!) and started working as an adjunct professor at Mandl College in NYC.
Now if I can just find the time to finish my book, get my essays published and find producers for my latest play!
Lazarus Syndrome highlights
3/08 4-page interview/article with photographs in Art and Understanding (A&U) national magazine
8/18- 9/16/07 Produced by Theater Alliance, Washington, D.C.
6/07 Winner of the 2nd place vsa arts/Jean Kennedy Smith award at the American College Theater Awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center, D.C.
sample reviews
Metro Weekly
Silent Weapon
Bruce Ward's Lazarus Syndrome is a quiet marvel, a play that reminds us how powerful the written word can truly be
In…Lazarus Syndrome… the beauty of the show rests on a single lovely turn that cannot, or rather should not, be revealed. With a single deft movement playwright Bruce Ward transforms the familiar into the fantastic. More wonderful is the fact that Ward commits his sleight-of-hand without relying on effects or false fronts. Lazarus Syndrome is a play that reminds us how powerful the written word can truly be. With the strong architecture of his language to support it, Ward seeks to do more than convince his audience to suspend their disbelief -- he instead encourages them to simply believe.
…A marvelous play…It is that rare beauty that manages to be moving without melodrama, heartbreaking without hysteria. But it is quiet. And it is comfortable. And it is exquisitely real, succeeding not with flourishes, but with the strength of its language and the confidence of its cast.
Washington Examiner
Last Man Standing
An intimate drama that explores how to deal with very real, personal tragedy.
A deep, confounding sense of melancholy...pervades much of Bruce Ward’s Lazarus Syndrome, a meaningful and self-deprecating examination of life after profound loss.
Ward keeps his play brief in one extended act, a testament to his lean economy of language. [Director Paul-Douglas] Michnewicz delivers Ward’s beautifully woven story with an inspiring production that lingers.
Washington Blade
Inspiring… Lazarus Syndrome tackles big questions — like the fleeting passage of time and how to live a meaningful life…A poignant payoff… Ward’s themes…resonate.
Metro Weekly interview/Arts section
Ward's breathtaking play harbors a powerful twist that is as eloquent as it is illuminating, turning his work from a competently-written familial comedy into something, well... utterly magnificent.
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