Spotlight on 3rd Year Katherine Varga

The 25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival is almost here! The featured, Thesis Productions of our Third Year MFA Playwrights debut this week, April 18th-20th, in Kantner Hall on the Elizabeth Evans Baker Stage. To celebrate the opening of the featured productions, and leading up to the festival staged readings on the 25th, 26th, and 27th, we will be featuring daily spotlights on Ohio University’s nine MFA Playwrights.

Name: Katherine Varga

Age: 26

Pronouns: she/her

Hometown: New Britain, CT

Undergrad: University of Rochester

Favorite play, TV show, movie, album, book, etc: I don’t know how to narrow it down so I’ll say public libraries are my favorite! Sort of related to my play, I loved the novella “My Sister the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

“Fun fact” related to Sunny Days:

Last spring, I wrote an article where I interviewed Eve Plumb, best known for playing Jan Brady. Since I had never seen The Brady Bunch before, I watched a few clips on Youtube to help prep for the interview. I was amazed by how inane this show is and yet couldn’t stop watching. Over the summer, watching Brady Bunch clips became my main form of procrastination from writing.

Website: https://katherinevarga.weebly.com

New Play Exchange: Katherine Varga

See Katherine’s thesis production of Sunny Days

directed by Olivia Rocco

8:00 p.m. – April 20th, 24th & 25th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater Stage, Kantner Hall

Life is looking sunny for 17-year-old Carly—well, except for the fights with her mom. Her BFF Mike E and his cool mom just moved in with them. The fandom website she made for her celebrity crush is blowing up. And the mysterious fan she’s been talking to online just might be the object of her affections. The one catch – her crush is a serial killer, and his murders are getting closer to her home. Sunny Days explores the gap between our online and offline selves, the cultural effects of toxic masculinity, and how far women will go to save the people they love.

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