September

 October

-Karen Shaw, Mark Pastorella
MCC Foundation (3:45 pm)

-Susan Baker, Dick Ryther
Student Services (4:00 pm)

Billy Collins as
Poet-in-Residence

Contemporary Women Playwrights with an Emphasis on Paula Vogel: An Academic Workshop

This workshop will look at the current dialogue surrounding women playwrights in the United States, will survey some of the more important and exciting work being done by contemporary women playwrights, and then will focus on the work of Paula Vogel. As usual, light refreshments will be served.
Free and Open to the Public

November

6th act presents outing for faculty and staff and GEVA's Dracula

Sign Interpreted performanceTickets are $25 each and can be obtained by contacting Ann Tippett

Fiction Writer:
Matthew Trafford

 December

January

 February

Visiting Playwright: Paula Vogel

Playwriting Workshop

This event is co-sponsored by Creative Arts, Liberal Arts, English/Philosophy, and VaPA.

Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Her other plays include the Obie-award winning The Baltimore Waltz, as well as Hot N Throbbing, Desdemona, The Mineola Twins, The Long Christmas Ride Home, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. Her plays are published as The Mammary Plays and The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays. Vogel currently teaches playwriting at Brown University.
Free and Open to the MCC Community

Fifth Annual Student Playwriting Competition

Staged Reading and Awards Ceremony. This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, and to offer winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed and to receive constructive feedback for future play development. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.
Free and Open to the Public, Reservations Required