7th Annual Great Plains Theatre Conference
Hosted by MCC
Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 2:28pm - Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 3:28pm
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The Great Plains Theatre Conference if a nationally recognized conference that premiers the works of more than 50 playwrights in sites across Omaha each year. The Conference attracts a national group of master artists who teach workshops, participate in panel discussions, respond to new work and present their work in venues throughout the community during GPTC. An overarching goal of the Conference is to build upon and to enhance the national and local community of playwrights. Through the GPTC, playwrights connect with one another and, in a supportive and encouraging environment, critique one another’s work, begin to develop work together, form future creative alliances and share vital contacts and resources.
2012 featured artists:
Constance Congdon – An internationally known theatre scholar, lecturer and playwright. She has taught playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, but her home is as playwright-in-residence at Amherst College.
Naomi Iizuka – A contemporary Japanese-American playwright, Iizuka is one of the freshest voices in modern theatre. She currently heads the MFA Playwriting program at the University of California–San Diego.
Kira Obolensky – Based in Minneapolis, Obolensky is an award-winning playwright and writer. She teaches at Goddard’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program and at the University of Minnesota.
These featured artists will be joined by honored playwright Rebecca Gilman. Gilman is one of America’s most talented and challenging playwrights. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, is an associate artist at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and teaches the MFA program at Northwestern University. Gilman is the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award and received the Harper Lee Award in 2008. Her most widely known works are Spinning into Butter and Boy Gets Girl, which was included in Time magazine’s “List of the Best Plays and Musicals of the Decade.”
Updates and information can be found at www.mccneb.edu/theatreconference.
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This event is FREE in the evenings.