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OU Alum Finalist for Prestigious Keneda Graduate Playwriting Award

  • December 12, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Awards · News · Press

OU alum, Jacob Juntunen‘s play “In the Shadow of His Language, was chosen as a a Finalist for the 2014 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award.

jacob juntunen

In 2005, the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre in Atlanta established the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, which is the only national competition that transitions graduate student playwrights to the world of professional theatre. Each year, the theatre solicits the work of third-year MFA playwriting students from 36 of what it considers to be “the country’s leading graduate playwriting programs.”

An in-house panel of readers evaluates approximately one hundred submitted scripts each year and selects a slate of semi-finalists. The semi-finalist scripts are then sent to a national panel of theatre professionals for judging, resulting in the selection of four finalists and one award-winning play. Since 2005, the playwriting program at Ohio University has had finalists in 2007, 2009, 2013, and in 2010, third-
year Ohio University MFA playwriting student, David Robinson’s play was named winner.

Of the 36 programs that the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre considers to be “the country’s leading graduate playwriting programs,” only 21 of these programs have had students who either won or placed as finalist since the inception of the program in 2005. Of these 21 programs, only UT-Austin and Julliard surpasses Ohio University’s record of achievement of four placements in nine years. Yale University, NYU-Tisch, and University of California at San Diego all have matched Ohio University’s record of achievement. The record of achievement of the playwriting
program at Ohio University has surpassed the playwriting programs at University of Iowa, Columbia University School of the Arts, Boston University, University of Southern California, Hunter College, California Institute of the Arts, Northwestern University, NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Hollins University, The New School for Drama, Catholic University of America, Florida State, and Carnegie Mellon, well as the other 15 playwritingprogram in the nation that have not placed in this one-of-a kind competition.

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Jeremy Sony Interviewed on “Inexplicable Dumb Show” Podcast

  • October 30, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · News · podcast · Productions

Theatre podcast “The Inexplicable Dumb Show” interviewed alum Jeremy Sony this week about his play “Ichabod: Missing in Sleepy Hollow” playing at Street Theatre Company. Sony talks about his take on the classic Sleepy Hollow legend and his work with Tennessee Repertory Theatre and their Ingram New Works Lab.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

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Buzz22 Producing World Premiere of Jacqmin’s “Ghost Bike”

  • October 3, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News · Productions · world premiere

OU Alum, Laura Jacqmin, is having the World Premiere of her new play “Ghost Bike” produced in Chicago by Buzz22 Theater Company from February 27, 2014 – March 30th, 2014.

Check out the article on broadwayworld.com

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Jeremy Sony Name Tenn Rep Ingram New Works Lab Playwright

  • August 20, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · News

Congratulations to one of our newest alums, Jeremy Sony; he was recently announced as one of the four 2013-2014 Ingram New Works Lab Playwrights at Tennessee Repertory Theatre! The program consists of monthly workshops, a lab symposium with this year’s Ingram New Works Fellow, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright, as well as a new works festival in May.

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Prof Erik Ramsey’s Latest Post on Plotwrench

  • August 14, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Faculty

“How much do your characters talk about themselves?” asks Erik Ramsey in his latest post at plotwrench. Research shows that we, as people, talk about ourselves more than we think. How does this translate to our characters and how can we use this knowledge to shape our fictions?

Read the entry here.

 

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Reginald Edmund nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award

  • August 8, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · News

Reginald Edmund has been nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Best Play Award for writing, for REGINALD EDMUND’S SOUTHBRIDGE, produced earlier this year at Chicago Dramatists. The play, originally developed at OU was the National Runner-up for the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry and the Rosa Parks Awards in 2009, Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition in 2011, and the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award Winner in 2013. Congratulations!!

Read about it the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Aaron Carter’s Play Debuts in Steppenwolf’s First Look.

  • August 2, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Chicago · Faculty · News · Productions · world premiere

This month, alum Aaron Carter’s THE GOSPEL OF FRANKLIN can be see at Steppenwolf (starting tonight!). Aaron’s play is part of Steppenwolf’s First Look Season. OU’s own Associate Professor of Playwriting Erik Ramsey is on board as the dramaturg. Break legs to all involved! Congratulations, Aaron! Visit the link to find all performance dates and to purchase tickets.

For more information check out the play’s page on Steppenwolf’s website. 

 

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J. Merrill Motz Opens New Play at Minnesota Fringe Festival

  • August 1, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Festival · News · Productions

This Friday, BOXCUTTER HARMONICA by alum J. Merrill Motz opens at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. BOXCUTTER HARMONICA is a collaboration between the Minneapolis-based playwright and his longtime friend, Chicago playwright Randall Colburn, shedding light on obsession, greed, greatness, and the devil’s singular fascination with collecting souls.

For more information click here. 

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Erik Ramsey’s New Post Advocates Computer-Aided Play Development

  • July 31, 2013
  • by rpdolan
  • · Faculty

Digital dramaturgy? Film Crit HULK smashes it, and rightly so. But plotwrench.org makes a case for computer-aided play development:

Hulk Smash Digital Development

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