Recent Alum Nominated for an Emmy

Christopher De Paola (MFA '06) has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his role on WCIU-TV's show "Green Screen Adventures." The official category is: "outstanding achievement for individual excellence on camera: programming - performer". Christopher is also a head writer on the Chicago-based show. The Emmy Award winners will be announced at a ceremony in November.

Recent Alum to Workshop Thesis Play at Victory Gardens:

2007 MFA alum Merri Biechler has been invited to workshop her thesis play, Real Girls Can't Win!, at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago this coming winter.

2003 Alum a 2007-08 Dramatist Guild Fellow:

Justin Boyd (MFA 2003) has been named a 2007-2008 Dramatists Guild Fellow. The program brings playwrights and bookwriters/lyricists/composers together in a workshop and provides mentoring and observership opportunities with theater professionals around New York.

MFA Alum Pens Article for American Theater Magazine:

Justin Boyd’s (MFA 2003) article on the director Anne Kauffman appears in the October 2007 issue of American Theater magazine. Justin is currently an Affiliated Writer with American Theater through the support of the Jerome Foundation.

MFA Alum Co-Produces New NBC Series: "Chuck"

Anne Cofell Saunders (MFA 2000), previously a writer for the critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning Battlestar Gallactica, is now a co-producer of the new NBC television series Chuck. The show is an action/comedy about a nerd who works at a big-box computer store by day, but is a secret-agent by night. It premieres Monday, September 24th at 8:00 pm, 7:00 Central.

Current MFA and MFA Alum Both at Shades of Black:

Current MFA playwright Reginald Edmund, and 2005 MFA alum Aaron Carter both had plays included in the 2007 Shades of Black Theater Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee on September 13th: Aaron Carter's Panther Burn and Reginald Edmund's Goldielock and the Three Bears.

Recent MFA Alum Named Lit Manager of Tony Award-Winning Victory Gardens:

Beginning September 10th, 2007, Aaron Carter (MFA '05) has been appointed as the new literary manager for Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. (See Carter's bio on the "alumni page" by clicking the link in the green column to the left.) For the complete story visit:http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110994.html