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 a playwright and librettist originally from Pleasantville, NY. Her plays include Belfast Kind (Winner, JPP's Jewish Playwriting Contest, Patty Abramson Prize Finalist), Quiz Out (Princess Grace Finalist, 2019 Kilroy’s Honorable Mention), The Twitch (Princess Grace Finalist), and Tough (Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival.) Her work has been produced and developed through Repertory St. Louis, Primary Stages, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Playwrights Center, the Drama League, the Jewish Plays Project, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and The Juilliard School, among others. She's the recipient of an EST/Sloan commission, a former 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, her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop, and is a recent graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights’ Program at Juilliard.

Alex Keegan is a director of new work, adaptations, and devised pieces often centering queer stories and narratives of mental illness. Her directing includes: AFFINITY co-adapted with Rebecca Adelsheim from Sarah Waters' novel, MANNING by Benjamin Benne, UHURU by Gloria Majule (Yale Drama), BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA by Anna Ouyang Moench (Chester Theatre), AUNTIE VANYA by Reed Northrup (Ars Nova ANT Fest), THAT POOR GIRL… by Jen Silverman (AADA), TOUGH by Margot Connolly (Williamstown), and new work in development with NYTW Adelphi Residency, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, The Drama League, MCC FreshPlay. She is the 2022/2023 Directing Fellow at Rattlestick Theater, a New Georges Jam member, an EST/Sloan Project Commission recipient, a former Artistic Director of Yale Summer Cabaret, and she currently teaches directing at Wesleyan University. Alum: Roundabout Directors Group, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Civilians R&D Group, Geva’s Directing Fellowship, Williamstown Directing Corps. BA: Brown. MFA: Yale School of Drama. alex-keegan.com