EST/Sloan Project presents a Reading of
Hello, World
written by Margot Connolly
directed by Alex Keegan
In a coding competition, two teams of teenage girls need to create an app that changes the world for the better - but who decides which app and cause is most worthy?
MARGOT CONNOLLY is playwright originally from Pleasantville, NY. Her plays include Belfast Kind (Winner, JPP's Jewish Playwriting Contest), Quiz Out (Princess Grace Finalist, 2019 Kilroy’s Honorable Mention), The Twitch (Princess Grace Finalist), and Tough. Her work has been produced and developed through Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Playwrights Center, the Drama League, the Jewish Plays Project, Repertory St. Louis, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Primary Stages and The Juilliard School, among others. She has an EST/Sloan commission, was a 2010-2011 Core Apprentice at the Playwrights Center and has been a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship, the Emerald Prize, and the Princess Grace Award. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop. She is currently a second-year Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights’ Program fellow at Juilliard.
ALEX KEEGAN’s directing includes Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Gloria Majule's Tilted (Yale Drama), Qui Nguyen's She Kills Monsters (Geva Fellowship), Margot Connolly's Tough, Krista Knight's Selkie (Williamstown), Gracie Gardner's Primary (Sanguine at IRT), and new plays with O’Neill Theater Center YPF, Cherry Lane Theatre, Yale Cabaret, MCC FreshPlay, and The Flea. She co-created Aplomb, a play about anxiety disorder’s impact on queer young women, developed through NYTW Adelphi Residency and The Habitat. Member/Alum: Rattlestick's Middle Voice Company, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corps, The Civilians R&D Group, The Drama League's Artist Residency. BA: Brown, MFA Directing Candidate: Yale School of Drama.
Hello, World is part of this season's First Light Festival, learn more about the festival and other plays like this here.