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AARON CARTER AARON CARTER is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. His play "Panther Burn" was produced by MPAACT at Victory Gardens Greenhouse. His work has been read at Around the Coyote and Victory Gardens, as well as Soho Think Tank and Winterfest in New York. Mr. Carter's teaching work includes courses at Grinnell College, Roosevelt University, and Indiana University NW. He has taught for Steppenwolf Theatre, Congo Square, American Theater Company, and After School Matters. AARON CARTER 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 LA Women's Theatre Festival, HBO Workspace, Blue Sphere Alliance, West Coast Ensemble, and colleges nationwide. She is an instructor and Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. ARLENE MALINOWSKI is teaching the following courses: CHRIS MANN CHRIS MANN is an award winning playwright, fiction writer and poet. His fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines and his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, New York, and Edinburgh, Scotland. His play, "View from the Top," was nominated for best short play of 2002. New York Theater called him a "talented young writer tackling serious subjects with sensitivity and care." He has taught playwriting at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. CHRIS MANN is teaching the following courses: DAN CONWAY DAN CONWAY's screenplay "Final Vows" was bought for filming by Santana Productions and was optioned by Rivenrock Company, both in Los Angeles. He has studied at the Bennington Writer's Workshop and Columbia College, as well as with John Truby, Danny Simon and Michael Hague. DAN CONWAY is teaching the following courses: EDWARD SOBEL EDWARD SOBEL is the Director of New Play Development at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he recently directed "Huck Finn," "The Chosen," and "A Lesson Before Dying." He has overseen development and been production dramaturg for two Pulitzer Prize Finalists: "Man from Nebraska" and "Red Light Winter," and others including "The Pain and the Itch" and "Purple Heart." He holds an MFA from Northwestern University. EDWARD SOBEL is teaching the following courses: JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN, as an actor, has played everything from Neil Simon to Shakespeare. He has acted in numerous commercials and made appearances on "All My Children," "Early Edition" and "The Untouchables." He was nominated three times and won a Jeff Award for his portrayal of George in "Of Mice And Men." As a writer, he won the Jeff and After Dark Awards for his play, "The Liquid Moon" produced by Chicago Dramatists. "Twilight Serenade," published by Dramatic Publishing, was optioned for film by Top Dog Production in L.A. JOHN GREEN is teaching the following courses: LAURA JACQMIN LAURA JACQMIN is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists where her play "10 Virgins" will premiere in the spring of 2008. Her short plays have won accolades from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Old Vic/New Voices at the Atlantic Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, and Collaboraction's Sketchbook 5 and 6, and have been published by Smith & Kraus. She earned an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. LAURA JACQMIN is teaching the following courses: LAURA JACQMIN and AARON CARTER LAURA JACQMIN is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists where her play "10 Virgins" will premiere in the spring of 2008. Her short plays have won accolades from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Old Vic/New Voices at the Atlantic Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, and Collaboraction's Sketchbook 5 and 6, and have been published by Smith & Kraus. She earned an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University. AARON CARTER is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. His play "Panther Burn" was produced by MPAACT at Victory Gardens Greenhouse. His work has been read at Around the Coyote and Victory Gardens, as well as Soho Think Tank and Winterfest in New York. Mr. Carter's teaching work includes courses at Grinnell College, Roosevelt University, and Indiana University NW. He has taught for Steppenwolf Theatre, Congo Square, American Theater Company, and After School Matters. LAURA JACQMIN and AARON CARTER is teaching the following courses: MARGARET LEWIS MARGARET LEWIS is author of the critically acclaimed plays "Fellow Travellers" (Jeff Citation for New Work) and "Burying the Bones" (Jeff Citation Nomination), an Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellow, and recipient of a Tremain grant and the Julie Harris Playwriting Award. Her new play "Creole" premieres in fall 2007 at InFusion Theatre. MARGARET LEWIS is teaching the following courses: MIA McCULLOUGH MIA McCULLOUGH has had her plays produced in Chicago at Steppenwolf, Chicago Dramatists, and Stage Left Theatre, as well as in Atlanta, San Diego, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Los Angeles. A number of her plays have been published and have garnered several awards, including a Jeff Citation, a Jeff Award nomination, an After Dark Award, the ATCA Osborn Award, and the Julie Harris Playwriting Award. She has received commissions from Steppenwolf and Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. A Resident Playwright with Chicago Dramatists, she also teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Northwestern University. MIA McCULLOUGH is teaching the following courses: PAULA VOGEL PAULA VOGEL won the Pulitzer Prize for her play "How I Learned To Drive." Her play "The Baltimore Waltz" won the Obie Award for Best Play in 1992. Her other plays include "Hot 'N Throbbing," "Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief," "The Mineola Twins," "The Oldest Profession," and "The Long Christmas Ride Home." A renowned teacher of playwriting, Ms. Vogel is currently the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University (where she has taught since 1985) and head of its graduate playwriting program. PAULA VOGEL is teaching the following courses: ROBERT KOON ROBERT KOON is a Resident Playwright and Director of the Playwrights Network 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." He has also been awarded a creative residency at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas, and serves as host playwright for the Ashland New Plays Festival in Oregon. ROBERT KOON is teaching the following courses: ROGER RUEFF ROGER RUEFF is a Resident Playwright with Chicago Dramatists. His play "Hospitality Suite" has been produced at theatres across North America and in Japan, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Italy. His works for the screen include "The Big Kahuna," starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito, which was one of only three films nominated for the 2000 Humanitas Award for independent film. ROGER RUEFF is teaching the following courses: ROSIE FORREST ROSIE FORREST most recently served as the Artistic Associate and Dramaturg for Northlight Theatre where she created "Interplay," Northlight's first new work reading series. She has been the production dramaturg for over 30 Chicago productions, working with Steppenwolf, Goodman, Next, Chicago Dramatists, Timeline, and Lifeline, among others. As a writer, Ms. Forrest is a company member with Serendipity Theatre Collective and a regular contributor to 2nd Story, a hybrid performance event. She has taught playwriting and dramaturgy for Chicago Dramatists and Northwestern University's National High School Institute. ROSIE FORREST 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. RUSS TUTTEROW is teaching the following courses: SARAH RUHL SARAH RUHL's plays include "The Clean House" (2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2005 finalist for Pulitzer Prize), "Dead Man's Cell Phone," (Helen Hayes Award for best new play) "Demeter in the City" (nominated for an NAACP award) , "Eurydice," "Melancholy Play," "Late: a cowboy song," "Orlando," and "Passion Play" (Kennedy Center Fourth Forum Freedom Award). Her plays have been performed at Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights' Horizons, Second Stage, Goodman Theater, Cornerstone Theater, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, the Wilma Theater, Woolly Mammoth, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens Theater, the Piven Theater Workshop in Chicago, among many other theaters across the country. Her plays have also been performed in England, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia, and have been translated into Spanish, Polish, Russian and Korean. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown University, and in 2006 was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, and is a former Network Playwright with Chicago Dramatists. Her work is published in an anthology from TCG. SARAH RUHL 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: tbd TBD tbd is teaching the following courses: WILL DUNNE WILL DUNNE A Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, Mr. Dunne 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, as well as 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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