Jacqmin at Sundance

Laura Jacqmin (MFA 2007) has been invited to Sundance this year with her play Look, We Are Breathing. For more: read the Playbill article here. The Sundance page is here.

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DENMARK World Premiere

MFA Playwriting Program Head, Charles Smith's play Denmark is currently in previews at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Denmark is the inaugural play to open VGT's new production space, the famed Biograph Theater. From VGT's web site about the play: "What is our commitment to fulfill our personal hopes and dreams, versus our obligation to a greater public good, at the time when the need for that greater public good is dire? With his distinctive flair, Charles Smith explores these provocative questions in his searing historical drama about freed slave Denmark Vesey, who in 1822, used his new earnings as a carpenter, not to free the woman he loved but to plan an extensive slave uprising in Charleston, South Carolina." The play runs through November 12th.

MFA Alum Pens a "Law and Order: CI" Episode

Jackie Reingold's (OU MFA 2004) first LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT will air on Tuesday, October 10th at 9PM. Actors include: Chris Noth, Julianne Nicholson, Eric Bogosian, Geoffrey Nauffts, Rosalyn Coleman, and Rocco Sisto. It's directed by Jim McKay. Executive Producer, Warren Leight.

The Weekly Madness Productions Get Press

A recent article explores Madness from the inside. Please visit the web site below:
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/06-07/October/58f-067.cfm

Staged Reading

3rd-year MFA playwright Laura Jacqmin's play BUTT NEKKID will receive a staged reading at The Side Project (Chicago) as part of their HARVEST Festival, Sunday, October 15, 10:30 AM. For more info, see www.thesideproject.net.