Playwriting Classes set to begin September 9th

News Release
August 20, 2010
Playwriting Classes set to begin September 9th

Registration continues for Professional Playwriting Certificate program at Independence Community College, which begins Thursday, September 9th. The class concludes November 18 and features a rehearsed reading of the students’ script.

The course runs every Thursday from 2-4 p.m. until the week of November 1-18. At that time, two playwrights of national accomplishment, including a past William Inge Theatre Festival New Voices winner, will teach the class as guest artists in residence. The class will then meet Monday through Friday from 4-6 p.m. in an intensive workshop atmosphere.

The guest artist instructors are Lynne Kaufman and Adam Symkowicz.

Lynne Kaufman is the author of fifteen full-length plays, three novels and dozens of short stories, and winner of the 2005 Otis Guernsey New Voices in American Theatre Award at the Inge Festival. Kaufman regularly teaches writing workshops at Dominican University and U.C. Berkeley.

Adam Szymkowicz’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands and Lithuania. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French.

The class is taught at four levels: those who have not yet taken the course should enroll in “Playwriting I.” For registration information, contact ICC at (620) 332-5400 or visit www.indycc.edu. For questions about the playwriting class please call (620) 332-5492.

ICC and the William Inge Center for the Arts offer America’s most comprehensive playwriting instruction at any two-year college. Over the course of 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 Official Theater Festival of the State of Kansas. The 30th annual festival will be held April 13-16, 2011.

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, Hallmark Corporation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Dramatists Guild Fund of New York City.

For more information, visit www.indycc.edu.