MFA Earns Teaching Award

2nd year MFA  playwright Merri Biechler has been awarded OU's Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award. Merri was in competition with GA's from across the university, and the award is given only to the top four GA lecturers based on both undergraduate student reviews of teaching style/ability as well as an interview process conducted by a student committee.

OU Playwrights in Collaboraction Sketchbook

2nd-year MFA playwright Laura Jacqmin's short play POOL OF and 2005 Alum Aaron Carter's KEGGER will be produced in Collaboraction's Sketchbook 6 Festival this August in Chicago at the Chopin Theatre.

Happyslap at Victory Gardens

2nd year MFA Laura Jacqmin's HAPPYSLAP recently received a reading at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, and will be presented as a staged reading in the 2006 Kitchen Dog Theater's New Works Festival.

Suzan-Lori Parks visits OU MFA

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks conducted a seminar for MFA playwrights today.  Ms Parks discussed her writing philosophy and her career as a playwright.