Dr. Marilyn Plotkins
Chair and Director of Theatre (PhD, Tufts University)
mplotkin@suffolk.edu(617) 973-5360 I have been producing and directing theatre for over 30 years and acted in many university, stock, and Off-Off Broadway musicals and plays.
Theatre director
As director of theatre at Suffolk University, I have facilitated hundreds of professional performing arts events including the American premiere of David Mamet’s Obie Award-winning play
The Cryptogram with Felicity Huffman and Ed Begley, Jr.
Founding director of Boston Music Theatre Project
As founding director of the Boston Music Theatre Project (BMTP), I have developed professional new musicals for 15 years. I currently serve on the New Works panel for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.
Theatre Department Chair
As Theatre Department Chair, I have been supervising student directed plays for 16 years and directed 22 plays and musicals, including Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Brecht’s
Good Person of Setzuan; Anna Deveare Smith’s
Fire in the Mirror; David Mamet’s translation of
Chekhov’s Three Sisters (American College Theatre Festival Semi-Finalist); Kander and Ebb’s
Cabaret (ACTF Finalist); Sam Shepard’s
Buried Child (ACTF Alternate Finalist); Sondheim’s
Gypsy and Assassins; and Kaufman and Hart’s
You Can’t Take It With You.
Publications
I recently completed a reference book for Greenwood Press,
The A.R.T. Reference Book: The Brustein Years about the American Repertory Theatre.
