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.
The 2008 MFA Festival Schedule
Madness Productions Featured
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.
Recent Graduate Awarded Wasserstein Prize:
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.
Recent Grad’s Play in San Francisco:
Recent Graduate’s Play at Atlantic Theater:
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).
OU Alums’ Vampire Cowboys in the New York Times:
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.
Recent Grad Teaches Workshop with Former Poet Laureate:
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.
Recent Graduate’s Play a National Finalist for KC/ACTF:
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.
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.
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