The 2008 MFA Festival Schedule

The 2008 MFA Playwriting Festival Schedule has been announced: for full details go to click here. To see the bios of the nationally known guest artists in residence as respondents to the festival this year, click here.

Madness Productions Featured

Playwrights' Production Class, affectionately known as "Midnight Madness", has been featured again on the web, this time in the ezine Speakeasy. To read their article and coverage, click here.

Recent Graduate Awarded Wasserstein Prize:

Laura Jacqmin, a 2007 graduate of the OU MFA Playwriting Program, has been awarded the second annual Wasserstein Prize for her play And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light. The prize includes a $25,000 honorarium. For more information, see the Playbill article: click here.

Recent Grad's Play in San Francisco:

Mark Witteveen's The American Bar is at Stage Werx in San Francisco from April 3rd to the 26th. For more info: visit sfgate.com here, or the Stage Werx web site here.

Recent Graduate's Play at Atlantic Theater:

Laura Jacqmin's ten-minute play, Space, premiered at the Atlantic Theater in New York on March 17th in a co-production between The 24 Hour Play Company and At Play Productions (as a benefit for Working Playground), starring Zoe Perry, Sarah Bisman, and Jessica Walter (a.k.a. Lucille Bluth, from "Arrested Development". See photo at right).

OU Alums' Vampire Cowboys in the New York Times:

Vampire Cowboys, a product of OU MFA alums Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker, have produced a new show reviewed in the NYT: click here.

Recent Grad Teaches Workshop with Former Poet Laureate:

Merri Biechler taught her "Character Voice" workshop at the 10th Annual Douglas Anderson Writers' Festival in Jacksonville, FL on March 15, 2008. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins spoke about his writing process, and "People Magazine" journalist Anne Driscoll discussed the interview process.