3rd year MFA Play at Victory Gardens:

Dana Formby's play "Inherit the Whole" received a staged reading at the Tony Award-Winning Victory Gardens Theater today. The play was featured as a lab production last May as part of the Seabury Quinn MFA Playwright's Festival here at OU.

Seabury Quinn, Jr. Has Passed:

We sadly note the passing of Seabury Quinn, Jr., the original playwriting professor who taught in the OU MFA playwriting program for decades until his retirement in the early 1990's. Seabury died on Saturday. He will be fondly remembered for his acerbic wit in responding to new plays, especially in recent years -- no matter how ill he had become, he always found a way to visit the new play festival named in his honor and generously give his opinion on the work at hand. Many will fondly remember his laugh, which was often just a single, expolsive "Hah!"

Ramsey play at Frostic Reading Series:

Playwriting professor Erik Ramsey's play Smith Unearthed will be featured as part of the Frostic Reading Series at Western Michigan University, 8 p.m. Thursday, November 13th. For more information and a feature article on the play, visit:http://www.mlive.com/kalamazoo/stories/index.ssf?/base/features-4/12262080609711.xml&coll=7&thispage=1#continue.

MFA Alum's Play at Side Project:

2007 MFA graduate Laura Jacqmin's play "Space" will be featured as part of The Side Project's "Cut to the Quick -- A Festival of Short Works" in Chicago starting November 16. For more information, visit: http://www.theatreinchicago.com/news.php?articleID=429.

Current MFA's Play to Be Produced:

Current MFA Playwriting student Cecilia Copeland's full length play Courting has won a spot in the Stage Left Productions season. Courting will have its professional debut at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa theater where last summer's floods all but destroyed SLP's production space. The play was originally developed in the Writers Workshop at University of Iowa under the direction of guest artist Lisa D'Amour. Cecilia plans to be in Cedar Rapids in July for the opening of the show and possibly the early part of the summer to take part in the rehearsal process.

Two MFA Alums Semi-Finalists, Page 73:

2007 MFA alumni Merri Biechler and Laura Jacqmin have been named as two of eighteen semi-finalists for the Page 73 playwriting fellowships. They were selected out of more than 200 submissions. From the p73 web site: "Page 73 provides artistic and financial resources to one emerging playwright as he or she develops a new play that has not received substantial prior development support. For his/her fellowship year, the P73 Playwriting Fellow receives a cash stipend in the amount of $5,000 and development support in the amount of $10,000."http://www.p73.org/programs/p73-playwriting-fellowship/

1st year MFA Production:

Current MFA Playwriting student Reina Hardy's full-length play, "Erratica," will have its professional premiere at Capital Stage Theatre in Sacramento on July 17th, 2009. Capital Stage, which has been called the city's "Best Professional Theatre," selected "Erratica" for a full production when it appeared as part of the inaugural Playwrights Revolution Festival in June 2008. The production and the festival are sponsored by a grant from the James Irvine foundation. Hardy will spend the rehearsal period in Sacramento working on the play, which will run through August 16th, 2009. Capital stage website: http://capitalstagecompany.com.