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ALICE AUSTEN ALICE AUSTEN's plays have been seen in London, New York, Brussels and Milwaukee, and have been developed and produced by numerous theatres in Chicago. She is a member of Shanghai Low Theatricals, the recipient of a 2007 Jeff Award Nomination for her play "Water" and she was awarded a Residency by the Royal Court Theatre (London) in 2006. Ms. Austen holds degrees in French and English Literature, is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, a Resident Playwright with Chicago Dramatists, and a member of The Dramatists Guild. ALICE AUSTEN is teaching the following courses: ALINE LATHROP and ANNA BAHOW ALINE LATHROP is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her play "Feast" was produced at Chicago Dramatists in 2007. ANNA BAHOW is an Associate Artist at Chicago Dramatists and directed the 2005 production of "St. Colm's Inch" by Resident Plawywright Robert Koon ALINE LATHROP and ANNA BAHOW is teaching the following courses: ARLENE MALINOWSKI ARLENE MALINOWSKI has been performing her critically-acclaimed solo shows to sold-out houses across the country, including St. Louis Center, Ojai Solo Series, The L.A. Women's Theatre Festival, HBO Workspace, Blue Sphere Alliance, West Coast Ensemble, colleges nationwide, and the 16th Street Theater in Berwyn, IL. She is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. ARLENE MALINOWSKI is teaching the following courses:
Arthur Kopit ARTHUR KOPIT is the author of: "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad;" "Indians" (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); "Wings" (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); a new translation of Ibsen's "Ghosts;" the book for the musical "Nine" (score by Maury Yeston; Tony Award for Best Musical, 1982; Tony Award for Best Musical revival, 2003); "End of the World, with Symposium to Follow;" the book for the musical "Phantom" (score by Maury Yeston); the book for the musical "High Society" (score by Cole Porter, additional lyrics by Susan Birkenhead); "Road to Nirvana;" "BecauseHeCan" (originally entitled "Y2K") and many others. As a teacher, Arthur Kopit has taught playwriting at the Rita and Burton Goldberg Graduate Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU, the Yale Drama School, Yale College, Columbia University, Harvard and Princeton. Mr. Kopit is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and The Lark Play Development Center, where he heads The Lark Playwrights' Workshop. Arthur Kopit is teaching the following courses: CARSON GRACE BECKER CARSON GRACE BECKER received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa. A Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, she is the recipient of a Jeff Award for New Work, and the Ofner Prize from the Goodman Theatre. Ms. Becker has developed plays at The Playwrights Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, Nebraska Repertory, Montana Repertory, New Jersey Repertory, The Road Theater, La Mama La Galleria, Ensemble Studio Theater, Abingdon Theater, and Honolulu Theater for Youth, where she has been the Literary Manager for the past few years. CARSON GRACE BECKER is teaching the following courses: CHERYL COONS CHERYL COONS has co-written more than a dozen musicals that have received professional productions, including "At Wit's End" (Carbonell Award for Best New Work) "River's End" (ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Musical Theatre Award, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award). She was the lyricist for "Sylvia's Real Good Advice" (Jeff Award), "Female Problems" (After Dark Award), and "Phantom of the Country Opera," published by Music Theater International. She has been a reader for the National Music Theatre Conference of the O'Neill Theatre Center for the past three years. CHERYL COONS is teaching the following courses: DANA LYNN FORMBY DANA LYNN FORMBY is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists where she co-manages the Instant Theatre program. Her recent plays include "Corazon de Manzana," invited to the 2009 WordBRIDGE play lab; "The Small of Her Back," a 2009 Kendeda Finalist, which includes a reading at The Public in NY and The Alliance theatre in Atlanta; "Inherit the Whole," which was presented in readings at Premiere Stages, Victory Gardens Theater; "Armed with Peanut Butter," winner of the 2009 Kennedy Center National 10-Minute Playwriting Award and was produced at The 2009 Source Festival. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University. DANA LYNN FORMBY is teaching the following courses: DAVID SCOTT HAY DAVID SCOTT HAY is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker and playwright. He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed indie feature "Hard Scrambled." Selected screenwriting projects include "AWOL Blues," a Quarterfinalist this year in the Nicholl Fellowships and BlueCat Screenwriting competitions, and "Straight Razor Jazz," which is currently in development. He is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and a member of the WGAW Independent Writers Caucus. www.davidscotthay.com DAVID SCOTT HAY is teaching the following courses: M.E.H. (Margaret) LEWIS M.E.H. (Margaret) LEWIS is a Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright and author of the critically acclaimed plays "Creole," "Fellow Travellers" (Jeff Citation for New Work) and "Burying the Bones" (Jeff Citation Nomination). Her new play "Here Where It's Safe" will be produced at Stage Left Theatre this winter. M.E.H. (Margaret) LEWIS is teaching the following courses: Mary Ruth Clarke MARY RUTH CLARKE co-wrote and starred in the original "Meet the Parents" and adapted it into the blockbuster version, starring Robert De Niro, for which she shares story credit with Greg Glienna. Her screenplay "Chimney Rock" is under option, and she has been a script doctor for many screenplays that have actually been produced, including "A Guy Thing," "Desperation Boulevard," and "The Godfather of Green Bay." She is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and a member of the Writer's Guild of America East. Mary Ruth Clarke is teaching the following courses: MIGDALIA CRUZ MIGDALIA CRUZ is an award-winning playwright who has written over forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including: "Fur," "Miriam's Flowers," and "Another Part of the House," produced in venues as diverse as National Theater of Greece/Athens, Old Red Lion/London, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertoriqueno, and Latino Chicago Theater Company (where she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998). She is an alumna of New Dramatists, was mentored by Maria Irene Fornes at INTAR, and her latest play, "El Grito Del Bronx," was seen at NYU, at Milagro Theater (Portland, OR), and opened in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre in a co-production of Teatro Vista and Collaboraction in July, 2009. Her play "Telling Tales" will be produced by the University of Puerto Rico in November, 2009. MIGDALIA CRUZ is teaching the following courses: ROBERT KOON ROBERT KOON is a Resident Playwright and staff Dramaturg with Chicago Dramatists, where his play "St. Colm's Inch" was produced in 2005. He won a 2003 Jeff Citation for New Work for his play "Vintage Red and the Dust of the Road," and the 2004 national award for ecodrama for his play "Odin's Horse," which was nominated for a non-Equity Jeff Award for New Work last season for its premiere by Infamous Commonwealth Theatre. ROBERT KOON is teaching the following courses: Roger Rueff ROGER RUEFF is an award-winning writer whose produced dramatic works include stage plays, teleplays, and screenplays. His plays include "Hospitality Suite," which has been produced at theaters around the world and translated into four languages, and "So Many Words," which garnered best-writing awards from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle and Dramalogue. Mr. Rueff's works for the screen include "The Big Kahuna," his film adaptation of "Hospitality Suite," starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito. Roger Rueff is teaching the following courses: RUSS TUTTEROW RUSS TUTTEROW has been Artistic Director of Chicago Dramatists since 1986. He has directed numerous world premieres and countless new play readings, nurtured the careers of hundreds of playwrights, and marketed dozens of plays into productions at large and small theatres in Chicago and around the country. RUSS TUTTEROW is teaching the following courses: Tanya Palmer TANYA PALMER is the Literary Manager at The Goodman Theatre, where she coordinates the theatre's new play initiatives. Prior to her arrival in Chicago, she was the Director of New Play Development at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she coordinated the reading and selection process for both the Humana Festival of New American Plays and the National Ten-Minute Play Contest. As a production dramaturg, she has worked on a number of world premiere productions by some of the nation's leading playwrights, including Sarah Ruhl, Charles Mee, Naomi Iizuka, Kia Corthron, and Tina Howe. Tanya Palmer is teaching the following courses: WILL DUNNE WILL DUNNE, Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, has led nearly 1,600 playwriting workshops, served as a dramaturg at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and twice attended the Australian National Playwrights Conference as guest instructor. His plays have been selected by the O'Neill for three National Playwrights Conferences, and generated a Charles MacArthur Fellowship, and presentations in Russia, Europe and Australia. West coast productions of his plays have earned four Bay Area Theatre Critics Awards and two DramaLogue Playwriting Awards. WILL DUNNE is teaching the following courses: |
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