Triangle Review - The Mansion of Many Apartments
Triangle Review - The Mansion of Many Apartments
Triangle Review - The Mansion of Many Apartments
"Bronwen Carson's The Mansion of Many Apartments is a layered exploration of recovery, identity, and the strain of being witnessed through a lens that you no longer recognize"
Read Dani Daniela's full review HERE
Podcast - Into the Fire
Triangle Review - The Mansion of Many Apartments
Triangle Review - The Mansion of Many Apartments
Burning Coal artistic director, Jerome Davis, talks with Bronwen Carson, about her life, her transition into writing and directing, and her creative process. Bronwen is the playwright of the mansion of many apartments which opens at Burning Coal on 06/14/2025!
Listen to the pocast HERE
the mansion of many apartments
Triangle Review - The Mansion of Many Apartments
Broadway World - What's On
Bronwen Carson's The Mansion of Many Apartments opens at Burning Coal Theatre
6/11 through 6/28
The Mansion of Many Apartments
a SoundingLine Arts production
in collaboration with
Bruning Coal Theatre
Raleigh, NC
June 14 - 28, 2025
U.S. Premiere - Red Silk
Has Anyone Seen Bill?
Has Anyone Seen Bill?
Has Anyone Seen Bill?
Magpie news!
Has Anyone Seen Bill?
Has Anyone Seen Bill?
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Barnes and Noble
Reading and Book Signing Event
June 15, 2024 1-3 pm
Nominations
National Book Award
PEN/Hemingway Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
writing
directing
We're in the midst of a massive transition- globally, tribally, individually. Transitional realms are uncertain, but hold immense promise. If we listen and trust what we don't yet understand, in each other and ourselves, these liminal thresholds can guide us through difficult metamorphosis into a communal space of kindness, respect, and celebration of our diversities as much as our similarities.
I strive to create works that invite curiosity so we can find each other in the fog of anger and blame. Curiosity is magical. It allows maybe...and possibility...and hope.
featured work
The Mansion of Many Apartments, a new play
Burning Coal Theatre - Second Stage Series
Raleigh, NC
June 14 - 28, 2025
Rowan awakes iafter an accident, no longer able to recognize faces, even of those closest to her. Prosopagnosia, the doctors say.
Face recognition blindness.
The inability to recognize anyone in her life begins to have drastic affects on her relationships, so she starts to build memories and associations that allow her to recognize not only her friends and family, but her own reflection. But as her memory constructs become more elaborate and the ways she, and her relationships have dramatically shifted, her friends and family grow increasingly concerned and impatient, pushing her to return to the person she used to be.
The Mansion of Many Apartments explores the nature of identity, memory, and where autonomy and community blur.
Red Silk
Howland Cultural Center
Beacon, NY - March 2024
U.S. Premiere , Produced by Hit House Creative
additional productions stills soon
Has Anyone Seen Bill
Has Anyone Seen Bill
30 minute short narrative film delving into the complexities and misperceptions around housing insecurity, through Bill, a middle aged good guy who, after one bad decision, sinks further and further into societal invisibility.
Magpie
Feature Screenplay adaptation
Magpie explores appropriation and masking as the means through which an undiagnosed autistic woman builds a functional identity, burying her true one in the process. Maggie is difficult, odd, and soulful-in search of not only answers to a childhood mystery but an authenticity she has no idea how to recognize.
ACCORD(ing)
a sensorially immersive world of performance art, large scale puppetry, installations and soundscapes to examine how the human mind gathers, processes and decides truths.
co-created and produced with TÉA Artistry
49th Street and Other Stories
a mini documentary following the development of a full length movement play about an isolated young woman trying to build a life for herself in New York City.
MMDG / Ailey Center workshop footage
Tunnels Above Ground
a short film about disconnection and loss.
Executive Produced by Duke Films
premiered at OIFF 2017
words
Magpie - novel (release March 2023 - Unleash Press)
Now available at Barnes and Noble, Unleash Press, and Amazon
Recipient of the 2022 Unleash Press Book Prize
Recipient of the 2021 Rona Jaffe Foundation Breadloaf Writers Conference Scholar Award
Nominated for the 2023 National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway AWard, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Unknown and unattached, Maggie Morris moves through her days as a polished collection of patterns. Her only honest relationship is with the dormant tree outside her Brooklyn loft window. When she unexpectedly runs into her childhood best friend, Dana, a Tsalagi girl who suddenly disappeared the summer they turned nine, Dana’s cryptic references about the events surrounding her disappearance launches Maggie down a rabbit hole not only about that long ago summer, but about who she’s become and why.
Magpie explores appropriation and masking as the means through which an undiagnosed autistic woman builds a functional identity, burying her true one in the process. Maggie is difficult, odd, and soulful—in search of not only answers to a childhood mystery, but an authenticity she has no idea how to recognize.
2023 Midwest Book Review -
Paths divided by circumstance and life can sometimes cross again, but those linked by memory have since become someone else as time passes -- especially when a death and a disappearance introduced an estrangement that has lasted for decades. In Magpie, these two now-disparate former friends are thrown back together in an unexpected, unusual manner that introduces past memories and conundrums into present-day experiences. The circumstances involving a mother's death, a Tsalagi woman who also vanished from Maggie's childhood, and a mystery that threatens to raise long-repressed memories about what really happened make for a vivid read.
For some readers, this novel will stir unpleasant memories of choices towards peace over adventure; predictability over excitement. As Maggie moves into many revelations, so readers will find their hearts tugged and challenged by her self-discoveries and the truth that lies at the center of her adult choices.
Readers and libraries looking for novels about friendship, mystery, growth, and "Being part of the wild things that surround me...Not separate. Part of something bigger." will find Maggie a powerful story. It ideally will reach a wide audience with its landscapes of seasonal and relationship transformations.
"The wry, idiosyncratic, yet deeply vulnerable voice Carson elevates in Magpie, speaks for so many of us" - Laura Cronk, author of Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice
"A tour de force of narrative consciousness in the tradition of Jonathan Lethem, Magpie immerses the reader in a compelling mystery and social critique."
- Jamie Price, Ph.D., author of The Call
O.T.P. (TV series in development)
Sundance Co//ab
Liminal Starling
Feature film in development in partnership with LaWanda Hopkins.
Sundance Co//ab
a savage, simple
"Truth like death, kills what came before."
Full length play inspired by Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero.
(Finalist, Doug & Victoria Ross Foundation - Playwriting Award)
You Can't Get to Heaven in a Miniskirt
Hybrid physical theatre play about gender shaming and purity hazing of young females in church youth groups.
*Act I draft published in MeetingHouse Literary Journal (Dec. 2020)
Interior, Brooklyn
One act play
Immersive physical theatre
Scotomas
Full length play in development
Perception, collective agreements, and how we define "mental health"