Winners of the 2011 Playwright Festival Announced 6/3-5
The 2nd Annual Playwright Festival is presented in collaboration with the Allen County Public Library and will be held at the downtown branch June 3-5, 2011. Our guest moderator is Dan Clancy, an International Playwright who resides in New York City. Clancy will lead post show discussions, serve on a Guest Panel Discussion and conduct a Workshop. Clancy's play The Timekeepers will be the featured production of the Festival along with the 1st Place Winning play Discom-BOOB-ulated by winner Denise Buhr. Former First Presbyterian Theatre Artistic Director John Tolley will be directing The Timekeepers, leading post show discussions, and will serve on the Guest Panel Discussion. Civic Theatre's Executive/Artistic Director Phillip Colglazier will also be a part of the Guest Panel Discussion.
The 3-day festival will also include a staged production of the winning play and stage readings of the 2nd & 3rd place winning scripts. Discussions on the production or reading will follow each presentation.Scripts were submitted by 15 playwrights from Fort Wayne, Auburn, Argos, Elkhart, Wabash, Warsaw, Mundelein, IL and Toledo, OH - all of whom are either current of former residents of Northeast Indiana. These 15 scripts were adjudicated by a committee of local and National Theatre professionals who determined the winners.The Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival was established in 2009 as a part of Civic's Growth Initiative Campaign and was initially funded in part by a Foellinger Foundation INSPIRE Grant. This year's festival is sponsored, in part, by 80/20, Inc. Foundation. The festival was established to help nurture the creative writing talents of playwrights in Northeast Indiana. In addition to 80/20 Inc. Foundation, sponsors include Indiana's NewsCenter, Punch Films, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio. Civic Theatre is an Arts United funded member group and receives support from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Rock of Ages Off-Broadway TexARTS Theatre & Academy (7/10-8/09) |
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1776 Allen Contemporary Theatre (6/26-7/12) |
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Titanic The Musical Plaza Theatre Company (6/12-7/11) |
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West Side Story North Texas Performing Arts Repertory Theatre (6/19-6/28) |
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& Juliet Bass Performance Hall (7/14-7/19) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Winspear Opera House (3/30-4/04) |
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West Side Story Rockwall Summer Musicals (6/19-6/28) |
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Urinetown: The Musical Kalita Humphreys Theater (7/10-7/19) PHOTOS |
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Undermain Theatre (6/11-6/28) |
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Application Pending Theatre Three (8/20-8/30) PHOTOS |