Theater festival honors playwriting professor
Pulitzer Prizewinner Paula Vogel, the Eugene O’Neill Chair of the playwriting department at the School of Drama and playwright in residence at Yale Repertory Theatre, has been chosen to receive the award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre, to be conferred at the 29th annual William Inge Theatre Festival in April. Founded in 1981, the Inge Festival celebrates the accomplishments of nationally renowned playwrights. Previous honorees include Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein ’76MFA, Edward Albee, and Tina Howe. Vogel’s plays include How I Learned to Drive, A Civil War Christmas, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot ’n’ Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, she directed the MFA playwriting program at Brown University.
Design meeting will bring together graduating designers
In May, the graduate theater design programs at California Institute of the Arts, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and the Yale School of Drama will present Design Meeting 2010. This event in New York City will introduce graduating scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers to the professional theater community through a project gallery and portfolio presentation. Design Meeting 2010 is being coordinated by John Coyne ’97MFA, lecturer in design at Yale School of Drama, working with Christopher Barreca ’83MFA, head of scenic design at CalArts; Susan Hilferty ’80MFA, chair of design at Tisch; and Stephen Strawbridge ’83MFA, co-chair of design at Yale. The event will focus on a dialogue among professional theater directors, choreographers, and designers in a series of one-on-one conversations, and will promote an exchange of ideas among the graduating designers themselves.
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