Professional Playwriting
Class at ICC Begins
Sept. 16
Registration for study
with professionally
accomplished dramatists
is underway at the
Professional Playwriting
Certificate Program at
Independence Community
College beginning
Tuesday, September 16.
The eight-week class
meets Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 2:30 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m., through
November 13th.
The course concludes
with a public reading of
the students’ original
plays.
There are
different classes for
various levels: those
who have not yet taken
the course should enroll
in Playwriting I whereas
students previously
enrolled may enroll in
Playwriting II, III or
IV. Graduate credit is
also available through
Baker University for an
additional fee. For
registration
information, contact ICC
at (620) 332-5400 or
visit
www.indycc.edu.
The
professional playwright
instructors are Patricia
Loughrey and Kristen
Palmer.
Patricia
Loughrey wrote the book
for the musical “The
Daddy Machine” which
premiered at
Diversionary Theatre.
Her play “Lord Derby’s
Giant Eland” placed
second in the Kennedy
Center, American College
Theatre Festival Mark
Twain Comedy Playwriting
Awards.
Additional plays for
young audiences include:
“Not Who You See, But
Who I Am,” with the Mark
Taper Forum’s
Improvisational Theatre
Project; “Secrets,”
produced by Kaiser
Permanente (winner of
the Ryan White Award);
and “The Inner Circle,”
seen worldwide in over
500 productions. She
teaches playwriting at
San Diego State
University.
Kristen
Palmer is a 2008-09
Jerome Fellow at the
Playwrights Center of
Minneapolis. Her play
“The Melting Point,” was
a finalist for the 2008
National Playwrights
Conference at the Eugene
O’Neill Center.
Palmer’s
other plays have been
performed and developed
at theater companies in
New York City, the
Marist College, the
Orlando Shakespeare
Festival, and others.
She is an associate
artist of New Georges
Theatre, of New York, a
Soho Rep Writer/Director
Lab Alumni and a former
company member of
Printer’s Devil Theatre
in Seattle.
She is a
graduate of Bretton Hall
College and New York
University’s Gallatin
School, where she
focused on Writing and
Educational Theatre.
ICC and
the William Inge Center
for the Arts offer
America’s most
comprehensive
playwriting instruction
at any two-year
college. Over four
semesters, students are
taught by a minimum of
eight professional
working playwrights and
dozens of guest-artist
actors, directors and
other theatre
professionals from all
over the country.
The Inge
Center sponsors the
annual William Inge
Theatre Festival. The
28th annual
festival is April 22-25,
2009, and honors the
musical theater writing
team of Tom Jones and
Harvey Schmidt.
The Inge
Center is named for the
late William Inge, a
native of Independence
and Pulitzer and
Oscar-winning playwright
and screenwriter.
The Inge
Center is funded in part
by grants from the
Kansas Arts Commission,
Kansas Humanities
Council, National
Endowment for the Arts,
Hallmark Corporation,
William T. Kemper
Foundation, and the
Dramatists Guild Fund of
New York City.
For
registration
information, contact ICC
at (620) 332-5400 or
visit
www.indycc.edu.
