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MCC Daily Tribune

Playwriting Professor Maria Brandt has Two Plays Featured at Rochester's Fringe Festival

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MCC Playwriting Professor Maria Brandt has two different plays featured during this year's Fringe Festival. If you're able and inclined, please consider supporting her!

Thirteen Ways, an experimental exploration of the challenges of fighting with someone you love. Inspired by "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," Rochester-playwright Maria Brandt’s new play Thirteen Ways uses a kaleidoscopic structure to push through the junk of an argument in an effort to see more authentically the person on the other side. Directed by Ben McRae and featuring Jeff Siuda and Kathy Rivers, Thirteen Ways bears witness to an empty-nesting couple repeating and repeating again their often comical but always emotionally fraught positions about the ethics of kidnapping. The danger is that as long as their goal remains to win the argument, neither one of them ever feels heard. One of City Newspaper's Staff Selects for this year's Fringe.


Taking Charge, a strange, moving glimpse into taking control over end-of-life care. This five-minute play will be produced by The Geriactors, a small company of some of Rochester's finest actors under the direction of Jean Gordon Ryon. The Geriactors consistently entertain a variety of Rochester audiences with short, funny, poignant pieces, often about some aspect of growing older.

Maria Brandt
English and Philosophy
09/03/2025