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Saturday, December 13th, 8:00 PM

High School 24-Hour Plays

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Grammy-winning Composer Michael Silversher

in concert and teaching workshops

at Independence Community College

 Grammy-winning composer Michael Silversher will perform a concert of his wide-ranging musical styles Sunday, Sept. 7, at 3 p.m. at the William Inge Theatre at Independence Community College, Kansas.

 Silversher earned the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Children’s recording with Music for Sony/Henson’s “Elmo in Grouchland.”  He was the founding/resident composer, musical director, and resource artist for Robert Redford’s Sundance Playwrights’ Lab and Children’s Theatre, a position he held for many years.  Silversher has written more than 100 songs for the Disney companies.  His work in television includes “The Little Mermaid,” “Duck Tales,” “Chip ‘N’ Dales Rescue Rangers,” “Alladin: the Return of Jafar” and “All Dogs go to Heaven.”  He has also co-written seven children’s stage musicals.

 Silversher’s visit is funded in part by a “Meet the Composer” grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

In addition to the concert, Silversher will conduct two composing workshops.  The first, open to the general public, will be held Thursday, Sept. 4, 12 noon, at the Independence Community College Music Hall, Fine Arts Building 101.  The second composing workshop will be at Independence High School.

 Silversher will also compose original music for the William Inge Theatre Festival’s 24-Hour Plays, which are performed Saturday, Sept. 6, at ICC.  More than 60 students and instructors at 15 colleges from across five states gather that weekend to create, rehearse, and perform entirely new productions in just one day’s time.

 This will be the composer’s second visit to Independence.  He was a special guest presenter in April at the annual William Inge Theatre Festival, where he also directed a community chorus in the premiere of his composition “A Simple Prayer.”

 Tickets to the Silversher concert on Sunday Sept. 7 are $5 general and $3 students.

 Admission to the 24-Hour Plays, Saturday, Sept. 6, is $5.

 For more information on the Silversher concert, composing workshops, or the 24 Hour Plays, call (800) 842-6063, ext. 4216.

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WOW!  Look What's Coming

Saturday, September 6th, 8:00 PM

24-Hour Plays

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Fall 2003 Inge House Playwrights Arrive September 4th

Playwriting classes now forming

Professional playwrights from the east and west will leave their homes to reside in Independence, Kansas, as the Fall 2003 William Inge Theatre Festival playwrights-in-residence at Independence Community College.   

The playwrights are Anne Phelan, of New York City, and Elaine Romero, of Tucson, Arizona.  Their residency is from Sept. 4^th through November 7^th.  While in Residence they'll teach playwriting classes at ICC and Independence High School.   Click for more info.

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March 25, 2003
Inge Festival Announces Special Guest Artist Esquire Jauchem

Esquire Jauchem, a director and producer of scores of TV shows and opera and stage productions, will speak about his experiences Friday 1 p.m. at Independence Community College’s William Inge Theatre.  Admission is free and the general public is invited.  The event is part of the William Inge Theatre Festival’s Special Guest Artist series.

Jauchem’s experience crosses the spectrum of “behind the scenes” duties—as a TV producer for more than 300 episodes of “Divorce Court,” and segment producer on “America’s Most Wanted;” as founder of the Boston Repertory Theater, where he produced and designed more than 40 shows; and as associate director for more than a dozen operas, including a Houston Grand Opera performance of “Don Pasquale” starring Beverly Sills and Donald Gram.  He has designed scenery and lighting for many events, including the Siegfried and Roy Showroom in Las Vegas and presentation ceremonies honoring Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama for his Nobel Peace Prize award.

Mr. Jauchem co-founded the special effects company Jauchem and Meeh, which has designed for many Broadway shows, international dance tours and numerous stage productions.  He is in Independence for pre-production meetings to design the lighting for the multi-media Tribute to the Inge Festival’s Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre award-winner, Romulus Linney, taking place Saturday evening April 12, 8:00 PM  at Memorial Hall.  The Tribute, which includes the presentation of the Kansas Citizen of the Arts Award to International Opera Star and Kansas Native, Samuel Ramey, is the capstone event of the William Inge Theatre Festival, which runs April 9-12.

For further information, call the Inge Festival office at (620) 331-4100, ext. 4216.

March 6, 2003
Inge Festival Announces Special Guests

The 2003 Inge Festival's special guests include, so far:

Shirley Knight - Tony and Emmy award-winning actress and Kansas Native.
 

Austin Pendleton - Award-winning Actor, Playwright, Director.

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February 25, 2003
Playwriting Class Begins in March

Professional Playwrights Melanie Marnich and David Scott Hay take up their residency at the Inge House this weekend as the official Playwrights in Residence for the William Inge Theatre Festival and Independence Community College for the Spring Semester.  As part of their residency program, both Marnich and Hay will be teaching their craft in Topics in Literature: Playwriting at ICC beginning on Tuesday evening, March 4.

The mid-semester, three-credit hour class will meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings through May 1, from 6:30-8:30 in FA114 of the Fine Arts Building.  The course will finish with an open reading of the students short plays at the Inge Theatre on Thursday, May 1.

For more information about the class or to enroll by phone call (620) 331-4100, ext. 4286 or 4238.  Outside of Independence call 1-800-842-6063

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February 24, 2003
Spring 2003 Inge House Playwrights Take Up Residence

The William Inge Theatre Festival at  Independence Community College has named its two latest Playwrights-in-Residence, who will bring to Independence an array of theatrical experience overseas as well as in the United States. 

The playwrights are Melanie Marnich, of Minneapolis, and David Scott Hay, of Chicago, who begin their residence at the Inge’s boyhood home at the start of March.  They will teach playwriting courses as well work on their new projects while living in the historic home of award-winning native Independence playwright William Inge.

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February 4, 2003
2003 Inge Festival Honoree: Romulus Linney

Romulus Linney, whose acclaimed plays have captured the spectrum of American life, from the soul of his native Appalachia to contemporary New York City, is the recipient of the William Inge Theatre Festival’s 2003 Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award. The Festival will be held April 9-12, in Independence, Kansas, at Independence Community College.
 
“We are very excited to honor a playwright with a truly American voice. Linney’s prodigious work is greatly revered by his fellow playwrights,” said Peter Ellenstein, Director of the William Inge Theatre Festival, which is held annually at Independence Community College, in Independence, Kansas. “Fifteen of our past honored playwrights helped choose this year’s honoree, and yet Linney’s name is still not familiar to most Americans. We hope this well-deserved honor helps, in a small way, to introduce more of the public to Linney’s unique contributions to the American Theatre.”

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