PHOTO FLASH: Oscar Winner Mark Boal Attends Opening of Summer Shorts 4: Series B

Mark Boal — who won 2010 Oscars for his screenplay for The Hurt Locker, as well as for Best Motion Picture of the Year shared with Kathryn Bigelow, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro — was among the attendees at an opening night party for Summer Shorts 4: Series B, which is currently playing at 59E59 Theaters through September 2.

Boal is the brother of Christopher Stetson Boal, whose Jonathan’s Blaze, directed by Alexander Dinelaris, is one of the featured plays in this program of one-acts. The cast for this two-hander is J.J. Kandel and P.J. Sosko.

Series B also features Wendy Kesselman’s The Graduation of Grace, directed by Stephanie Berry, with Clara Hopkins Daniels; Alan Zweibel’s Happy, directed by Fred Berner, with Scott Adsit and Arthur French; and Neil Koenigsberg’s Fit, directed by Merri Milwe, with José Joaquin Perez, Kate Cullen Roberts, and Liam Torres.

For TheaterMania’s review of Summer Shorts 4: Series B, click here.