School Notes: David Geffen School of Drama
May/June 2012

Kennedy Center honors YSD students

Two YSD students are recipients of Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards, part of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. Hansol Jung ’14MFA received the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award and Kate Tarker ’14MFA was presented the National Science Playwriting Award. Each prize includes a check for $1,000, a professional development residency this summer, membership in both the Dramatists Guild of America and the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis, and an invitation to be in residence at the Kennedy Center theater festival in April.

Festival stages students’ plays

The seventh annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, which presents three fully produced plays by graduating playwrights in rotating repertory, takes place May 4–12 at Yale’s Iseman Theater. This year’s plays are Petty Harbour by Martyna Majok ’12MFA, Fox Play by Jake Jeppson ’12MFA, and The Bachelorsby Caroline V. McGraw ’12MFA. During Professionals Weekend May 11–12, theater professionals from around the country will see all three plays, meet with the playwrights and other drama students, and take part in a panel discussion that features chair of playwriting Paula Vogel, playwright Dan LeFranc, and the three festival playwrights. The Carlotta Festival is named for Eugene O’Neill’s widow, Carlotta Monterey, who chose Yale University Press as the publisher of her late husband’s masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The proceeds from this publication support playwriting at Yale University.