Student 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.
Brandt, Maria
English/Philosophy
01/08/2020