Ohio University MFA Playwriting Program
Jackie Reingold’s one-act A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2008, and will be published by Smith & Kraus. Another one-act, 2B (OR NOT 2B), will be in MATCH GAMES, short plays about romance, produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2009. Jackie is now on the writing staff for HBO’s IN TREATMENT, starring Gabriel Byrne.
Soon to be a 3rd year MFA playwright at Ohio University’s MFA Playwriting Program, Reginald Edmund was invited to participate in the Kennedy Center’s Summer Playwriting Intensive where he worked closely with nationally known playwrights such as Marsha Norman. Reggie was also selected for the inaugural Kennedy Center fellowship for the Soul Mountain Retreat for Writers of Color. Dana Formby was on a professional literary internship at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, and Bill Zorn was also on a professional literary internship in Chicago at Bailiwick Theater.
The 2008 MFA Playwriting Festival Schedule has been announced: for full details go to click here. To see the bios of the nationally known guest artists in residence as respondents to the festival this year, click here.
Playwrights’ Production Class, affectionately known as “Midnight Madness”, has been featured again on the web, this time in the ezine Speakeasy. To see the current Madness production schedule, click here.
Laura Jacqmin, a 2007 graduate of the OU MFA Playwriting Program, has been awarded the second annual Wasserstein Prize for her play And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light. The prize includes a $25,000 honorarium. For more information, see the Playbill article: click here.
Laura Jacqmin’s ten-minute play, Space, premiered at the Atlantic Theater in New York on March 17th in a co-production between The 24 Hour Play Company and At Play Productions (as a benefit for Working Playground), starring Zoe Perry, Sarah Bisman, and Jessica Walter (a.k.a. Lucille Bluth, from “Arrested Development”. See photo at right).
Vampire Cowboys, a product of OU MFA alums Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker, have produced a new show reviewed in the NYT: click here.
Merri Biechler taught her “Character Voice” workshop at the 10th Annual Douglas Anderson Writers’ Festival in Jacksonville, FL on March 15, 2008. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins spoke about his writing process, and “People Magazine” journalist Anne Driscoll discussed the interview process.
Laura Jacqmin’s 10-minute play Parkersburg has been selected as one of the top five 10-minute plays in the nation and will be featured on the Kennedy Center stage in Washington D.C. on April 18th.
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