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🎭 The O'Neill Center's National Theatre Institute - Fall 2025
🏅 2026 National Partners of the American Theatre Julie Jensen Playwriting Award (Region 5 Nomination)
🏅 2025 Bela Kiralyfalvi National Student Playwriting Award
🏅 2024 International Thespian Excellence Award (THESPY) in Playwriting
🎓 BFA in Playwriting - Ohio University 2028
Alaina Tennant is a playwright from Akron, Ohio. Her work often deals with questions in history and humanity. She is a BFA Playwright student at Ohio University and an Alumna of The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Theatre Institute. Recent awards include the ACTF Region V Julie Jensen Playwriting Award (2026), Bela Kiralyfalvi Student Playwriting Award (2025), and International Thespian Excellence Award for Playwriting (2025). In addition to writing, Alaina is a museum studies student who greatly values her time spent volunteering with local archives and military history museums.
UPCOMING
WINGS
Staged Reading - July 12 @ 6:30 PM
Wild Thread at the Akron Civic Theatre - Wild Oscar's 182 S Main St, Akron, OH.
THE ORDER OF FIFINELLA
Staged Reading - July 24 @ 7 pm
Makeshift Theatre - 732 W. Exchange St, Akron, OH.
https://www.makeshiftakron.org/events/the-order-of-fifinella-reading
HE FRANKLIN PLAY: OR, MORE OR LESS A PLAY ABOUT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Staged Reading - August 2 @ 3 pm
Jersey Central Theatre Company - 132 Watson Rd, Fanwood, NJ
https://www.jerseycentraltheatre.com/
THE FRANKLIN PLAY: OR, MORE OR LESS A PLAY ABOUT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Workshop Production - October 29-30
Ohio University Lab Productions - Putnam Playspace 96 E Union St, Athens, OH
FREIHEIT
(Athens Fringe Festival)
WINGS
(Ohio University Lab Productions)
NOW WE ARE A HUNDRED
(Wichita State -- Photo: Makayla Lake)
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