Summer News & Notes:

Soon to be a 3rd year MFA playwright at Ohio University's MFA Playwriting Program, Reginald Edmund was invited to participate in the Kennedy Center's Summer Playwriting Intensive where he worked closely with nationally known playwrights such as Marsha Norman. Reggie was also selected for the inaugural Kennedy Center fellowship for the Soul Mountain Retreat for Writers of Color. Dana Formby was on a professional literary internship at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, and Bill Zorn was also on a professional literary internship in Chicago at Bailiwick Theater.

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.