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MCC Daily Tribune

Spring 2020 Visiting Writer Series

The English/Philosophy Department, Creative Arts, The Sixth Act, and the School of Arts and Humanities are co-sponsoring playwright Nathan Yungerberg's and nonfiction writer Jaquira Diaz's visits to MCC during the Spring 2020 semester. Both of these writers offer underrepresented, contemporary voices, which is so important for all of our students to encounter. Details are below. Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu for further information.

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Visiting Playwright: Nathan Yungerberg

Reading and Book-Signing

Thursday, February 13, 2020

7:00 p.m.

R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center

Warshof Conference Center, Monroe B

Free and Open to the Public

 

Playwriting Workshop

Friday, February 14, 2020

12-12:50 p.m.

Building 8, Room 200

Free and Open to the MCC Community

 

Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include Esai's Table, The Son of Dawn, Pousada Azul, Orchids and Polka Dots, Seven Pools of Lebanon, and Isosceles. Nathan's work has been developed or featured by The Cherry Lane Theatre (2017 Mentor Project with Stephen Adly Guirgis), Roundabout Theatre Company, The Playwrights' Center, JAG Productions, Crowded Fire Theater, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, The Lark, The Fire This Time Festival, 48 Hours in Harlem, Climate Change Theatre Action, The National Black Theatre, The August Wilson Red Door Project, The Bushwick Starr, and BBC Radio Afternoon Drama. Nathan is one of seven black playwrights commissioned by The New Black Fest for HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments which was published by Samuel French. Awards and honors: The 2016 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semifinalist), Ken Davenport 10-Minute Play Festival (Winner), 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist, and 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence.

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Visiting Nonfiction Writer: Jaquira Díaz

Reading and Book-Signing

Thursday, February 27, 2020

7:00 p.m.

R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center

Warshof Conference Center, Monroe B

Free and Open to the Public

 

Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Friday, February 28, 2020

12-12:50 p.m.

Building 8, Room 200

Free and Open to the MCC Community

 

Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, a memoir, and I Am Deliberate, a novel, both forthcoming from Algonquin Books. She's the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Kenyon Review, and The MacDowell Colony. Her work appears in The Best American Essays, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The FADER, Longreads, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and others. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's MFA Program in Creative Writing and is a Consulting Editor at the Kenyon Review.

Maria Brandt
English/Philosophy
01/08/2020