Adam Szymkowicz, Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen and Josefina Lopez Tapped for Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program

Dramatists Guild Fund President Andrew Lippa and Executive Director Rachel Routh announce three additional Traveling Masters events for the fall: Adam Szymkowicz (Clown Bar), Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen (Tuck Everlasting), and Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves).

The Traveling Masters Program is a national outreach program that sends prominent dramatists into communities across the country for writing workshops, master classes, talkbacks, and other public events. In partnership with leading regional theaters and universities, the Dramatists Guild Fund creates local programming that gives students, theater professionals, and the public first-hand experience with renowned artists.

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Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 12:00PM

Adam Szymkowicz in San Marcos, Texas

Texas State University

Staged Reading of Alcot with Post-Show Talkback:

Inside the Script with Adam Szymkowicz

PSH Foundation Studio Theatre at

Texas State University Theatre Center

430 Moon Street, San Marcos, TX

All rehearsals are open to the public. For the rehearsal schedule and to RSVP for the reading and post-show talkback, please email Kaitlin Hopkins, Head of Musical Theatre at Texas State University, at kh40@txstate.edu.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 7:30PM

Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans Creative Center for the Arts

in Partnership with Southern Rep Theatre

New Musical Development with Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen

New Orleans Creative Center for the Arts

2800 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA

To RSVP to this free event, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/new-musical-development-with-chris-miller-nathan-tysen-tickets-27470891175.

Wednesday October 19 and Thursday October 20, 2016 Time TBD

Josefina Lopez in La Jolla, California

The Bishop's School

7607 La Jolla Boulevard, La Jolla, CA

Thanks to DGF supporters across the country and Delta the Official Presenting Sponsor of the Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program, as well as help from our local partners, all events are free to attend. For information about upcoming events and how to attend, visit dgfund.org/programs/#TravelingMasters or email DGF at info@dgfund.org.

Fall events in San Marcos, New Orleans, and La Jolla are new cities for the Traveling Masters Program and are in addition to the nine cities where events have taken place already this year.

Other 2016 Traveling Masters have included Paula Vogel (How I Learned To Drive, The Baltimore Waltz) in Minneapolis, MN; Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51, The Last Match) in Pittsburgh, PA; Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once On This Island) in Kaneohe, HI; Madeleine George (The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence) in Charleston, SC; Chisa Hutchinson (Dead and Breathing, Dirt Rich, She Like Girls) in Shepherdstown, WV; Laura Jacqmin (Dental Society Midwinter Meeting, Residence) in Ashland, OR; Lauren Yee (King Of The Yees, The Hatmaker's Wife) in Kansas City, MO; Philip Kan Gotanda (After the War Blues, Love in American Times) in Portland, OR; and Terrence McNally (Master Class, Love! Valour! Compassion!) in Buffalo, NY.

Adam Szymkowicz's plays have been produced have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Slovenia and Lithuania. His work has been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Lark, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Primary Stages and The New Group, among others.

Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, My Base and Scurvy Heart, Herbie, Incendiary, Clown Bar, Fat Cat Killers, The Why Overhead, Adventures of Super Margaret, Elsewhere, Where You Can't Follow, A Thing of Beauty, UBU, Mercy, Rare Birds, Violent Bones, Sarah Sarah Sarah, Good Morning Good Night, Colchester, Alcott, Such Small Hands, Marian, The Haddam Plays and Nerve. For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Chris Miller (Composer): Tuck Everlasting (Broadway 2016): The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theatre, Lucille Lortel Nominee Best Musical 2011); Fugitive Songs (Drama Desk Award Nominee Outstanding Revue 2008; all three of which have cast albums available at itunes and Amazon. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Barrington Stage Company). Television: songs for Sesame Street, Elmo's World & The Electric Company. Incidental music: The Whipping Man (Actor's Theater of Louisville); Anna Christie (Old Globe, San Diego); Co-composer with Michel Friedman, the first NY revival ofAngels in America (Signature Theatre, NY). Upcoming with lyricist Nathan Tysen: commissions from Lincoln Center Theatre, & Playwrights Horizons/TheatreWorks, Palo Alto; Additionally, the book, music & lyrics for Ravello (Signature Theatre (VA) American Musical Voices Project), & a song cycle based on the poetry of Willa Cather entitled Prairie Songs.Proud Graduate of Elon University and NYU. www.millerandtysen.com, facebook.com/MILLERandTYSEN,twitter.com/MillerandTysen, Instagram: millerandtysen.

Nathan Tysen B'way/Off B'way: Lyrics for Tuck Everlasting, The Burnt Part Boys, and Fugitive Songs (All with music by Chris Miller). Regional: Amélie (Music by Dan Messé), Stillwater (Music by his band Joe's Pet Project). TV: Songs for Sesame Street, Elmo's World, and The Electric Company. Nathan was the 2014 recipient of both the Edward Kleban prize for most promising lyricist and the Fred Ebb award for excellence in musical theatre. He was a contributing lyricist to the revue Stars of David, and also co-wrote two circuses for Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey. www.nathantysen.com

Josefina Lopez Having had over 40 professional productions of her plays shown throughout the United States, Josefina Lopez is one of today's preeminent Chicana writers. She has written such plays as Simply Maria, Or the American Dream, Confessions of Women From East L.A. and Real Women Have Curves.