Wednesday, October 18, 2017
THE LAST F TRAIN ON EARTH at the New York Transit Museum
Jess Honovich (MFA '17) and Robert M. Stevenson created a site-specific play for the 1936 subway station that is home to the New York Transit Museum, as part of the commissioning program PLATFORM: CREATIVE MUSINGS ON MASS TRANSIT. Seriously, could that possibly sound more fabulous?
SPACE GIRL in Chicago
20% Theatre Company Chicago has announced its 15th season, in which SPACE GIRL by Mora V. Harris (MFA '16) will feature alongside plays by Caridad Svich and Emily Dendiger. 20% is dedicated to strengthening the presence and raising public awareness of women artists in theatre. It is estimated that only 20% of theatre professionals are women. By building a community of theatre professionals and fostering emerging female artists through workshops and new plays, we provide opportunities for women directors, producers, designers, and playwrights.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Sloan Science & Film interview with Daniel Hirsch '17
Gay sheep? The Museum of the Moving Image interviews Daniel Hirsch '17 about SHEEPISH, a winner of the 2017 Sloan/CMU Script Competition.
The Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama is one of six institutions chosen to participate in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film School Awards. The competition presents $35,000 in prizes annually to current students in the Dramatic Writing program at CMU for their original screenplays or television pilots.
The competition encourages the MFA candidates to write scripts that will further the public understanding of science and technology. The Sloan Foundation's goal is to see the resulting scripts into commercial production at major studios and networks. To that end, it maintains development programs with the Tribeca, Sundance, and Hamptons film festivals.
The Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama is one of six institutions chosen to participate in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film School Awards. The competition presents $35,000 in prizes annually to current students in the Dramatic Writing program at CMU for their original screenplays or television pilots.
The competition encourages the MFA candidates to write scripts that will further the public understanding of science and technology. The Sloan Foundation's goal is to see the resulting scripts into commercial production at major studios and networks. To that end, it maintains development programs with the Tribeca, Sundance, and Hamptons film festivals.
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Apply to the dramatic writing MFA at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
When I think of who went to Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, where I teach, I think of Denée Benton, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldberry, Telly Leung, Josh Gad, Leigh Silverman, Katherine Brook.... My students in the MFA dramatic writing program work with actors and directors of this caliber every day. You can't help but step up to their level; you become a better writer for collaborating with them.
That list also reflects the diversity and fierceness of our community. Over the past year, the fact that this community is made up not only of bold artists but also bold citizens has become crystal clear.
The next class that enters the dramatic writing MFA program, in 2018, will join me for my tenth year at CMU. I've been teaching long enough now to see graduates recognized for the great plays I knew they would write. For example: Liza Birkenmeier (Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, Ars Nova Play Group, Playwrights Realm Fellow), Dan Giles (BREEDERS at New Light Theater Project), Joshua Harmon (BAD JEWS, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, SKINTIGHT), Dan O'Neil (Incubator Arts Project, Theater Editor of Culturebot), Isabella D'Esposito (Playwrights Realm Fellow), Carolyn Kras (Playwrights Union, LA), Mora V. Harris (City Theater Momentum Series, Pittsburgh), and Daniel Hirsch (Tête à Tête opera festival, London). Other alumni are writing for television and film in LA, touring plays for Seder tables and punk rock clubs, and making bonkers puppet extravaganzas in Texas.
You or someone you know should come here for two years and advance your work. The deadline is January 1 at http://drama.cmu.edu/
Thanks---
Rob Handel
Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing
Carnegie Mellon University
Here's some more information:
Combining playwriting, screenwriting, and writing for television, the Dramatic Writing MFA at Carnegie Mellon University School is focused on collaboration, intellectual vision, and experimentation. Central to the curriculum is Theater Lab, in which writers, directors, and actors collaborate on new work. Full-length plays by graduate playwrights receive workshop productions in the New Works Series, performed by the School of Drama's acclaimed student actors. The Sloan/CMU Script Competition awards $35,000 in prizes to current CMU students each year for original screenplays and TV pilots. MFA candidates may also have the opportunity to teach undergraduate courses in playwriting or screenwriting. Both during and after their time at CMU, writers have access to an established framework of professional connections. Students are encouraged to pursue their professional careers while enrolled in the MFA program, supported by the Dramatists Guild's “First Year Out” program, which provides students with access to new play development and production opportunities.
Recognizing that we practice a marginalized art form, we interrogate the state of the contemporary play and by what brave and daring acts we might contribute to its ascension. We are committed to an inclusive theater that resists bigotry and oppression.
Guest faculty are a vital presence in the program. Recent guests have included Clare Barron, Sheila Callaghan, Kia Corthron, Erin Courtney, Kristoffer Diaz, Jessica Dickey, Madeleine George, Lucas Hnath, Aurorae Khoo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Richard Nelson, J.T. Rogers, Cori Thomas, Andrea Thome, Francine Volpe, Anne Washburn, and Mac Wellman.
Applications are due January 1. Information at http://drama.cmu.edu/
That list also reflects the diversity and fierceness of our community. Over the past year, the fact that this community is made up not only of bold artists but also bold citizens has become crystal clear.
The next class that enters the dramatic writing MFA program, in 2018, will join me for my tenth year at CMU. I've been teaching long enough now to see graduates recognized for the great plays I knew they would write. For example: Liza Birkenmeier (Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, Ars Nova Play Group, Playwrights Realm Fellow), Dan Giles (BREEDERS at New Light Theater Project), Joshua Harmon (BAD JEWS, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, SKINTIGHT), Dan O'Neil (Incubator Arts Project, Theater Editor of Culturebot), Isabella D'Esposito (Playwrights Realm Fellow), Carolyn Kras (Playwrights Union, LA), Mora V. Harris (City Theater Momentum Series, Pittsburgh), and Daniel Hirsch (Tête à Tête opera festival, London). Other alumni are writing for television and film in LA, touring plays for Seder tables and punk rock clubs, and making bonkers puppet extravaganzas in Texas.
You or someone you know should come here for two years and advance your work. The deadline is January 1 at http://drama.cmu.edu/
Thanks---
Rob Handel
Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing
Carnegie Mellon University
Here's some more information:
Combining playwriting, screenwriting, and writing for television, the Dramatic Writing MFA at Carnegie Mellon University School is focused on collaboration, intellectual vision, and experimentation. Central to the curriculum is Theater Lab, in which writers, directors, and actors collaborate on new work. Full-length plays by graduate playwrights receive workshop productions in the New Works Series, performed by the School of Drama's acclaimed student actors. The Sloan/CMU Script Competition awards $35,000 in prizes to current CMU students each year for original screenplays and TV pilots. MFA candidates may also have the opportunity to teach undergraduate courses in playwriting or screenwriting. Both during and after their time at CMU, writers have access to an established framework of professional connections. Students are encouraged to pursue their professional careers while enrolled in the MFA program, supported by the Dramatists Guild's “First Year Out” program, which provides students with access to new play development and production opportunities.
Recognizing that we practice a marginalized art form, we interrogate the state of the contemporary play and by what brave and daring acts we might contribute to its ascension. We are committed to an inclusive theater that resists bigotry and oppression.
Guest faculty are a vital presence in the program. Recent guests have included Clare Barron, Sheila Callaghan, Kia Corthron, Erin Courtney, Kristoffer Diaz, Jessica Dickey, Madeleine George, Lucas Hnath, Aurorae Khoo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Richard Nelson, J.T. Rogers, Cori Thomas, Andrea Thome, Francine Volpe, Anne Washburn, and Mac Wellman.
Applications are due January 1. Information at http://drama.cmu.edu/
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Carolyn Kras '10 inducted into LA's Playwrights Union
Carolyn Kras (MFA '10) was inducted into The Playwrights Union, a network of LA theater artists writing for stage, TV, and film. Previous inductees have included Julie Tosh (MFA '09) and Matt Schatz (MFA '04).
BREEDERS by Dan Giles '15 now running at New Light Theater Project
BREEDERS, a play by Dan Giles (MFA '15) about two men and two hamsters, won the 2017 New Light New Voices Award and is now running at New York's Access Theater. The play, written at Carnegie Mellon, had previously received the 2016 Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Isabella D'Esposito '17 is a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow
Isabella D'Esposito (MFA '17) (that's right, she only got her MFA a couple months ago) has been named one of five 2017–2018 Writing Fellows by The Playwrights Realm. The fellowship, designed to help artists reach their professional and artistic goals, includes presentation of a new work in the Spring 2018 INK'D New Play Festival.
D'Esposito hails from the excellent town of Poughkeepsie, New York.
D'Esposito hails from the excellent town of Poughkeepsie, New York.
Mora V. Harris '16 in Momentum at Pittsburgh's City Theatre
Mora V. Harris (MFA '16) will become the latest dramatic writing graduate to have her work in City Theater's Momentum Reading Series when YOU ARE WHAT YOU is presented in March.
Chris Dimond '07 is writing songs for Disney Channel's VAMPIRINA
Chris Dimond (MFA '07) and Michael Kooman are writing songs for Disney Channel and Disney Junior's series VAMPIRINA. Does this sound like the best job in New York? Yes.
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