Recent alum Merri Biechler’s “Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver” received a workshop reading at the Alliance Theater as part of its award for the Kendeda Playwriting Competition. The play, about a woman dealing with the death of both her parents from cancer, has earned more than $30,000 in grants from the Ohio University School of Osteopathic Medicine as well as from the American Cancer Society and other charitable foundations.