1st Year MFA Play in New Jersey this past June:

Kara Dunn's ten-minute "Seven Questions" was selected for a reading at River Union Stage.

3rd Year MFA Dance/Theater Piece & Summer Productions

Third year MFA Joseph Gallo wrote the text for 80% of Love a dance/theater piece that debuted at the Obie award-winning Ice Factory Festival at the Ohio Theatre in New York, prompting nytheatre.com to write, "...this dance soap opera/symbolist dream play boasts a virtuosity seldom seen." In June, a workshop of Gallo's new play - Warning: Adult Content - was produced by Circus Theatricals at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles. Also on the boards this summer - Ya Gotta Believe! - seen in Mile Square Theatre's Seventh Inning Stretch Ten Minute Play Festival.

MFA Alum's OU Play at JAW

2004 MFA Playwriting alum Jacquelyn Reingold's A STORY ABOUT A GIRL (initially developed at OU) had a workshop this summer in the JAW Festival at Portland Center Stage in Portland, Oregon. Jackie has also started her second year writing for Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Her next episode will air in November.

News Coverage of Recent Alum's Continuing Project With Medical Schools:

2007 MFA grad Merri Biechler's play Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver continues to gather research money, has become a teaching tool for medical schools, and is moving toward even greater community outreach. The play has been developed with the support of the OU School of Osteopathic Medicine and ongoing grants funded by the American Cancer Society, among others. See the article for more information at: http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/06-07/August/800n-067.cfm

Recent MFA Alum Commissioned by Kennedy Center:

Merri Biechler (MFA '07) has been commissioned by the Kennedy Center and the White House Historical Association to write a new play for young audiences. The play explores Dolley Madison's rescue of the George Washington painting from the White House before British troops burned the building to the ground in 1814.

Recent MFA Alum at Steppenwolf:

Laura Jacqmin's (MFA '07) play The Revisionists received a staged reading at Steppenwolf theater in Chicago as part of their First Look Rep series. The play was originally developed in the OU MFA playwrights' workshop.