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Alum Ira Gamerman Fights Zombies

September 12, 2014
by Erik Ramsey
· alumni · Essays · New York · News · podcast · Publications

Ira Gamerman, 2012 MFA Playwriting alum, has penned another provocative HowlRound piece. Read it. It may save your life in the current zombie apocalypse: http://howlround.com/bardcore-will-never-die-but-you-will. HowlRound is an important national journal focused on examining what role new live theater plays in our contemporary world; a previous HowlRound piece he wrote can be found here.

Gamerman also has won awards as a regular writer for The Truth, a popular audio-fiction-radio-play podcast. The Truth recently joined PRX’s Radiotopia, which is a new network featuring the best and most creative podcasts (99% Invisible, Theory Of Everything, Etc).

OU mention in “Dramatists” Magazine!

September 10, 2014
by catherineforever666
· alumni · Current Students · Madness · News

OU’s MFA Playwriting program is profiled in the September/October issue of The Dramatist, the Dramatists Guild’s magazine.

The article focuses on various aspects of the program, but particularly how unique “Madness” is, and how writing a short play every week is a great benefit for the writer to get to work, putting less pressure on the muse. The article says “OU might be one of the best kept secrets in graduate training for playwrights.”

Night at the Museum Madness coming this Friday!

The second Madness of semester is awaiting us!! 3rd year playwright, Morgan Patton, is producing. Her prompt is “Night at the Museum” Madness. Each piece has to be in conversation with/inspired by/kinda inspired by a work of art!

Show is September 12th, 11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness the fall semester, check out our Madness page.

Second Madness of Semester will be September 12th!

Show is September 12th, 11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness the fall semester, check out our Madness page.

Ohio Playwriting Profiled in The Post

September 4, 2014
by Erik Ramsey
· alumni · Awards · Current Students · News · Productions

rustOnBone — Thomas Daniels and Shambrion Treadwell in Bianca Sams’s RUST ON BONE

Some nice local coverage of the MFA playwriting program: OU Playwrights’ Work Lives Outside the Classroom.

http://www.thepostathens.com/culture/article_20112344-3399-11e4-9170-0017a43b2370.html

Bianca Sams receives the Tennesse Rep Ingram New Works Fellowship!

Recent MFA grad, Bianca Sams is apart of the 2014-15 New Works Fellowship at Tennessee Rep! This prestigious opportunity is given to 4 playwrights per year and includes development help on a new play, a public reading and workshops with professional theater artists.

Fun fact!(tell all your friendsss) Jeremy Sony(another OU alum) received this fellowship last year!

For more info on this Fellowship

First Madness of the Semester is Sept. 5th

The first Madness of semester is upon us. 3rd year playwright, Neal Adleman, is producing. His prompt is “Use Your Damn Hands” Madness.

Show is September 5th, 11pm, in the Hahne Black Box theater. Admission is free. We recommend you get there 45 to 60 minutes ahead of time to assure yourself a seat.

For more information about Madness the fall semester, check out our Madness page.

Mark Chrisler’s THE ART OF PAINTING is “Recommended” by the Chicago Reader

Mark Chrisler, Ohio MFA Alum, opened his play, THE ART OF PAINTING, in Chicago this past weekend with his theater company, Found Objects Theatre. It’s running with another one-act, Chris Bower’s Notes to Molly, and the evening is billed as “Painting Molly.”

The Chicago Reader gave THE ART OF PAINTING it’s “Recommended” stamp of approval. “Playing the instructor, Chrisler builds a sense of unreliability and mystery, and the twists that follow are a refreshing reminder of the vivid worlds a one-man show can create onstage.”

The play runs through August 31st; Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sundays at 7pm.

Click here to purchase tickets.

Dana-Lynn Formby has a reading at Steppenwolf’s First Look on Friday

Ohio MFA Playwright alum, Dana-Lynn Formby, is having a reading of her play Friday as part of Steppenwolf’s First Look Series on Friday, August 8th.

The play, AMERICAN BEAUTY SHOP, is being directed Marti Lyons. The reading is at 2:30pm and takes place in the Downstairs Theater at Steppenwolf.

Ohio MFA Playwrights Open One-Act Plays in Chicago

August 7, 2014
by rpdolan
· alumni · Chicago · Current Students · News · Productions · world premiere

Three current MFA Playwrights and one recent alumnus are opening 10-4: THE TRUCK STOP PLAYS at CIC Theater in Chicago on Friday, August 8th. The plays run through August 30th.

Ryan Patrick Dolan ’16 enlisted three other playwrights Neal Adelman ’15, Tyler Whidden ’16, and recent grad, Anthony Ellison ’14, to write one-acts to take place at a truck stop. The result is four dark comedies with strong, funny female characters.

The directors are four women from the Chicago theater scene: Karisa Bruin, Jeri Frederickson, Ashley Neal, and Mary O’Connor. Each director cast the plays with Chicago actors.

Recent Ohio University student, Cat Abood (pictured above in red), appears in Anthony Ellison’s play. Ellison coached Abood in Ohio University’s improv group, Black Sheep.

More information appears on the play’s website: truckstopplays.wordpress.com or CIC’s website.