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1st Year’s National Kennedy Center Award Winning Play On Tour:

Ryan Dowler’s play Mammals, which won the Kennedy Center’s National 10-minute Play Contest and was featured at the Kennedy Center last year, has been on tour around the country (co-sponsored by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance and Western Washington University). The slate of productions began in early January and will culminate in March with a production in Chacombe, England (about an hour and half northeast of London). Northwest Playwrights Alliance also featured Mammals as an informal reading on December 8, 2007, in Tacoma, WA, as part of NPA’s monthly reading series, and plans to publish the play in the third edition of their anthology of ten-minute plays, “NorthNorthwest,” co-produced by NPA and Western Washington University.

2nd Year MFA Play at ATHE:

Kara Dunn’s short play, The Risque Root has been selected to receive a staged reading at the Association for Theater in Higher Education conference in Denver, Colorado this coming July.

2nd Year MFA Plays at MATC in Kansas City:

Kara Dunn’s ten-minute, The Risque Root, and Reginald Edmund’s Goldielocks received staged readings at the Mid-America Theater Conference in Kansas City.

2nd Year MFA Play in Evanston:

Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in Evanston, IL will perform a staged reading of Reginald Edmund’s Juneteenth Street on Saturday, March 8th. From the press release: “Starting March 8, FJT invites you to join us for our series of theatrical readings by professional Evanston and Chicago playwrights every second Saturday of the month.All performances will take place at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Avenue, at 3:00 p.m.”

Recent Alum’s Award Winning Play In Production:

Laura Jacqmin’s “Parkersburg”, winner of the Kennedy Center Region III 10-minute play competition, will be produced in Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 8 this May 15-June 15 in the Steppenwolf Garage; and her play “Released” will be produced in Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival in NYC this April.

Recent Alum’s Third Year Play at Alliance Theater in Atlanta:

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.

3rd Year’s MFA Play in NYC:

Third year MFA playwright Joseph Gallo’s play “Warning: Adult Content” will be produced by Shetler Studios TDG in association with the Bridge Theatre Company at THEATRE 54, 244 W. 54th Street (between B’way & 8th Ave.) from February 19th through March 9th. For more information visit the Theatermania web site: http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/140878

Two OU MFAs Win at Kennedy Center ACTF III in Milwaukee:

Recent alum Laura Jacqmin and Bill Zorn, 2nd year MFA, finished in the top two slots taking first and second place at the ACTF Region III festival in Milwaukee. Both plays are now in consideration for the Kennedy Center ACTF National 10-Minute Play Award and could be invited for showcasing at the national festival in Washington DC this coming April.

2nd Year Play in NYC:

2nd year playwright Dana Lynn Formby’s Armed with Peanut Butter was selected to be part of The Turnip Theatre Company’s 14th annual short play festival in association with the American Globe Theatre of New York City. The Performance Date is April 19th.

Three OU MFAs Finalists at Kennedy Center ACTF III in Milwaukee:

Bill Zorn and Reggie Edmund, both 2nd year MFAs, and recent alum Laura Jacqmin have each finished in the top six 10-minute plays for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival, to be held in Milwaukee next week. All three will be on hand in Milwaukee to workshop and present their plays. OU has a very strong track record with ACTF awards — this is the second time in three years that three out of six finalists are OU students. (Note: though faculty member Erik Ramsey is affiliated with ACTF, the plays are judged by outside auditors.) The top six 10-minute plays are selected out of numerous submissions from Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana.