Bekah Brunstetter is the book writer of one of this season’s most anticipated Broadway musicals The Notebook. Now, she is returning to her alma mater at UNC Chapel Hill, for the world premiere of her new play The Game at PlayMakers Repertory Company. Hear what she has to say about working on The Notebook, developing The Game, and those blasted critics.
The PlayMakers Repertory production of The Game opens April 13 and runs through April 28. For more information visit https://playmakersrep.org/.
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Listen to “A Conversation with Bekah Brunstetter” on Spreaker.About the Guest
As a playwright, Bekah Brunstetter’s work has been staged and developed by The O’Neill Playwright’s conference, the Atlantic Theater, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, the La Jolla Playhouse, Naked Angels, South Coast Repertory, The Echo Theater, and Ojai Playwright’s conference. Her play The Cake has been produced over 100 times worldwide, and ran Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club. She is currently working on Commissions for South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theater Club, and Barrington Stage. She recently made her Broadway debut with a musical adaptation of The Notebook with Ingrid Michaelson.
As a TV writer and producer, she has written for Switched at Birth, American Gods, This is Us, and Maid (Netflix, 2021). She has previously developed content with Bad Robot and Hulu.
She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages Writers Group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, Women’s Project Lab, and the Echo Playwright’s Group.
