Sunday, April 30, 2006

Happyslap at Victory Gardens:

2nd year MFA Laura Jacqmin's HAPPYSLAP recently received a reading at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, and will be presented as a staged reading in the 2006 Kitchen Dog Theater's New Works Festival.

OU Playwrights in Sketchbook:

2nd-year MFA playwright Laura Jacqmin's short play POOL OF and 2005 Alum Aaron Carter's KEGGER will be produced in Collaboraction's Sketchbook 6 Festival this August in Chicago at the Chopin Theatre.

Teaching Award:

2nd year MFA playwright Merri Biechler has been awarded OU's Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award. Merri was in competition with GA's from across the university, and the award is given only to the top four GA lecturers based on both undergraduate student reviews of teaching style/ability as well as an interview process conducted by a student committee.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Suzan-Lori Parks visits OU MFA:

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks conducted a seminar for MFA playwrightstoday. Ms Parks discussed her writing philosophy and her career as a playwright.