1997 Ohio University Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights’ Festival
Guest Mentors
Susan V. Booth joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001 and has initiated the Collision Project for teens, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, created local producing partnerships and has overseen regional collaborative productions, as well as commercial partnerships on projects including Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring in Da’ Noise, Bring in Da’ Funk; and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL. As a director, she has worked at theatres including the Goodman, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Court Theatre and many others. She holds degrees from Denison and Northwestern universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute and the Kemper Foundation. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern and DePaul universities, and serves as adjunct faculty with Emory University. She is the past president of the board of directors for Theatre Communications Group (the national service organization for the field) and is a trustee of Denison University and The Howard School. (Biography from Alliance Theatre website. http://alliancetheatre.org/member/susan-v-booth)
Dean Corrin is a member of the Playwrights Ensemble at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater (winner of the 2001 Regional Theatre Tony Award) where four of his plays, Battle of The Bands, Expectations, Butler County, and Gentrification have premiered. His plays have also been produced by the Tacoma Actors Guild, Addison Center Theatre and Stage #1 in Dallas, the Actors Theatre of St. Paul, Northlight Repertory, Missouri Repertory, New York Stageworks, the Wichita Center for the Arts and the Cape Cod Festival of New American Plays. His play,Threadheads (a musical for young audiences about Mother Jones and the child labor movement) was commissioned by The Theatre School and premiered by Chicago Playworks. It was subsequently presented at the Bonderman National Youth Theatre Playwriting Symposium. Dean served as Literary Manager for two seasons at the St. Nicholas Theatre Company. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Chicago Dramatists, and is also on the board of the Sansculottes Theater Company. He is a member of both the Dramatists Guild and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America. (Biography from DePaul University Website. http://theatre.depaul.edu/about/faculty-and-staff/theatre-studies/Pages/dean-corrin.aspx)
Milan Stitt was born in Detroit and attended Cooley High School and the University of Michigan. Long associated with the Circle Repertory Company in New York City, which produced all of his plays including Back in the Race and The Runner Stumble with William Hurt. He wrote and directed “Labor Day” for company member Christopher Reeve. The Runner Stumbles was named Best Broadway Play of 1976 in the annual Best Plays book. It has been published in four American versions and translated into several languages. The film version with his screenplay was made by Stanley Kramer. Among his teleplays are The Gentleman Bandit, Kentucky Ride, and Long Shadows, which was nominated for an International Emmy for best film. As an educator, he was chairman of the Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama and also taught writing at Princeton, New York University, University of Michigan, and was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Worchester State University. He founded The New American Theater School at the Women’s Project and Productions. He was also the Head of the Dramatic Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University where he was awarded the Raymond W. Smith Chair in Dramatic Writing. His articles on theater and travel have appeared in The New York Times and Horizon magazine. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he received writing grants from both the New York and Michigan Councils for the Arts and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Stitt passed away in March of 2009 at the age of 68.
1997 Festival Line Up:
April 24th
7:00PM Celebrity by Thomas Frattare
9:30PM An Evening of Ten-Minute Plays by David Dressler, Anita Gabrosek, and Scott Marshall Taylor
April 25th
3:00PM Disengaged by Anita Gabrosek and Galatea by David Dressler
7:00PM Solomon’s Song by Dwight Wilkins
9:30PM Never Mind the Forecast by Marianna Hales
April 26th
12:00PM Tracks by Josh Weil
3:00PM Soul Mates by Warren John Doody
7:00PM tamicanfly by Scott Marshall Taylor
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