Masha Obolensky
Masha Obolensky was a playwriting fellow with Boston’s Huntington Theatre in 2011 and 2012. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant in 2011 and received the Pen New England Discovery Award in 2010. She was nominated for a Brother Thomas Fellowship and was a semi-finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship. Other awards include the Kennedy Center Michael Kanin Award (2010, Girls Play), a WordBridge fellowship (2010, The Girl Problem), the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award (2006), and the Robert Pinsky Global Playwriting Fellowship (2010). Her play Not Enough Air was produced by Chicago’s Timeline Theatre and was nominated for 5 Joseph Jefferson Equity Awards including Best New Play and Best Production. Not Enough Air was also produced by the Nora Theatre in Cambridge (directed by Melia Bensussen) and was listed in the Boston Globe’s “10 Best of 2010”. Her most recent play Marvelous Fruit was a PlayPenn Conference finalist, a Eugene O’Neill Theatre Festival semi-finalist, and a Source Festival D.C. finalist. Masha is currently co-writing a play called Heart and Mind with Melia Bensussen, which started its development in the Huntington Theatre’s 2015 Summer Workshop for New Plays. Her plays have also been produced by the Boston Theatre Marathon, the Samuel French OOB Play Festival, Arts Emerson, HERE Arts Center, Access Theatre, and Source Festival D.C. Masha has an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University.