Fall Playwrights take
Residence in Inge House
Playwrights Patricia
Loughrey and Kristen
Palmer take up residence
in Independence as
William Inge Center for
the Arts Inge House
Playwrights-in-Residence
for the Fall of 2008
semester.
During their two-month
residency, the writers
will enjoy time to write
and have a developmental
reading of one of their
works with numerous
guest artists. They
will also instruct for
the Inge Center’s
Professional Playwriting
Certificate program at
Independence Community
College. The program
receives major funding
from the Kansas Arts
Commission and the
National Endowment for
the Arts.
There is still time to
enroll in the
playwriting classes at
ICC and study with these
professionals. The
class begins this week
and continues through
November 13th
meeting on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 2:30-5:30
p.m. in FA114 of the
Fine Arts Building.
The Inge Center
playwriting program is a
one of kind community
college program where
students study with
eight professional
playwrights over the
course of four
semesters. There are
four levels of
playwriting instruction
offered; beginners as
well as seasoned writers
are welcome to enroll.
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.
The Inge Center is best
known for its annual
William Inge Theatre
Festival. The 28th
festival takes place
April 22-25, 2009,
honoring the musical
writing team of Tom
Jones and Harvey
Schmidt.
Additional major
supporters of the
William Inge Center for
the Arts include the
William T. Kemper
Foundation, Commerce
Bank, trustee, the
Hallmark Corporation,
and Independence
Community College.
The center is named for
the late Pulitzer Prize
(“Picnic”) and Oscar
winning (“Splendor in
the Grass”) writer
William Inge, a native
of Independence.
For more information on
Inge Center activities,
visit
www.ingecenter.org
or call (620) 332-5492
or (800) 842-6063 ext.
5835.
