The 2026 Alumni Reading Series
Nobody Loves You Like I Do by Sophia Min ’27
A Weird Clipped Eulogy by Ved Ganesh ’27
Two play readings directed by Zoë Golub-Sass
The Alumni Reading Series is a continuation of the MIT Playwrights Lab, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between MIT student playwrights and professional theater artists. Started as a weekend-long event in 2017, the Lab has now grown into a multi-week festival of staged readings featuring the work of the writers enrolled in the Playwrights Lab (21T.355/21T.555) subject.
Each writer in the subject develops a script over the course of the semester which culminates in a collaboration between a professional director and actors on a public staged reading of the play. Student plays featured in the Lab have gone on to further development at MIT through the Alumni Reading Series and at professional theaters in Boston and beyond.
Nobody Loves You Like I Do by Sophia Min ’27
with Roni Boyles, Ali Dunisberre, Noah Aronstein, and Hannah Doyon
In her charismatic classmate, Alexandra believes she found the love that people write poems about. Beneath the infatuation, however, something darker takes root. Will she listen to her best friend or continue a relationship that could harm her?
Stage Direction Reader: Dorothy White
A Weird Clipped Eulogy by Ved Ganesh ’27
with Ryan Doyle, Danielle Perry, and Nina Andjelic
The insufferably stressed Laurel gambles on a bold new experiment to save her defunded lab and rescue her beleaguered graduate students. What could go wrong? Apparently, everything.
Stage Direction Reader: Dorothy White
Related People
Ken Urban
Senior Lecturer in Theater Arts
Director of Playwriting Programs
