“Mr. Parent” is a one-man performance inspired by Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s years as a substitute teacher in Boston Public Schools, which ran from Oct. 10 to Oct. 22 at Boston Playwrights' Theater.
Eliana Pipes, a second-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at BU and playwright, attended the award ceremony for The David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Fellowship as a finalist on Friday.
When Melinda Lopez, a Boston University College of Fine Arts adjunct professor, first heard that the City of Boston declared Oct. 29 as Melinda Lopez Day, she thought it was a joke.
“I thought...
