MFA playwrights Dana Formby, Cecilia Copeland, and Reina Hardy are each at the Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Saginaw, Michigan this week. Cecilia and Reina each had one act plays selected as two of the top six submitted in the region (comprised of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin), and Dana’s ten minute play “Armed With Peanut Butter” is one of the top six selected for the 10-minute festival there. In the last four years, Ohio Univsersity has had more new plays invited to the regional festival than any other, and more top finishes, including two OU scripts (by Jacqmin & Zorn) tied for first place in the 10-minute competition last year. Additionally, Nick Knittel, a student in Dana Formby’s beginning playwriting class, was also invited to have the one act he wrote under her tutelage read at the festival, making it so that 50% of the one acts at the festival this year come from OU writers.
