Dramaturgy professor garners teaching award
The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS), a wing of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, has honored Elinor Fuchs, professor (adjunct) of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, with the Betty Jean Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching of American Theater and Drama. Fuchs is an award-winning playwright and author of major works of criticism, including The Death of Character. A nationally recognized theater critic, Fuchs wrote for the Village Voice for more than ten years and has also contributed to the New York Times, Vogue, and American Theatre. Her most recent book, Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Machine Tools, Alzheimer's, and Laughter, was published in 2005. The Jones Award is the highest honor given by the ATDS to its members.
Award honors playwriting professor
Ken Prestininzi, associate chair of playwriting, received a 2009 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for his play Beholder, which was inspired by the notebooks and letters of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The Non-Equity Jeff Awards honor outstanding achievement in Chicago's non-union theater community. Beholder, which was presented by Trap Door Theatre in May 2008, was named "Best New Work." Prestininzi's other works include the plays AmeriKafka, As American As, The Hole, and Kept, and the musicals Favorite of the King, Pe'er Flynt, and Ariadne.
Yale Rep season showcases four centuries of playwriting
Three new plays and three classics will make up the 2009-10 season at the Yale Repertory Theatre, with a variety of genres covering comedy, drama, and musical theater. In the lineup this year: Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell'arte masterpiece The Servant of Two Masters (written in 1753); Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder; Battle of Black and Dogs by French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès; Eclipsed, by OBIE Award-winner Danai Gurira; and the world premieres of POP! by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jones and Compulsion by Rinne Groff ’90.
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