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CALL FOR PAPERS
The
28th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference,
April 22-25, 2009
The
William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference is in its third
decade of honoring major living playwrights through a wide
range of performances, readings, seminars, workshops,
lectures, panel discussions and historical activities.
For four days each year, the small city of Independence,
Kansas, becomes the theatrical
center of the universe with visits from the greatest
playwrights, directors, actors and other theatre
practitioners, who all meet to honor a major playwright in a
playwright’s town.
Additional awards to a “New Voices” Playwright and a
Kansas Citizen of the Arts are also presented.
Next year’s festival will be held April 22-25, 2009.
We are
pleased to announce that for the 28th Annual
Festival we are honoring the work of the great American
musical theatre team of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, best
known for “The Fantasticks,” “I Do!, I Do!,” “Celebration,”
and “110 in the Shade.”
Past
recipients are: Jerome Lawrence, William Gibson, Robert
Anderson, John Patrick, Garson Kanin, Sidney Kingsley,
Robert E. Lee, Horton Foote, Betty Comden and Adolph Green,
Edward Albee, Peter Shaffer, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence
McNally, Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Neil Simon, Stephen
Sondheim, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Lanford Wilson, John
Kander and Fred Ebb, Romulus Linney, Arthur Laurents, Tina
Howe, Sheldon Harnick and Christopher Durang.
CALL
FOR PAPERS
Papers,
designed for a 15 minute oral presentation, are invited on
the films and plays of William Inge, or on the works of Tom
Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Preference
will be given to papers dealing with William Inge.
Papers selected for
presentation at the conference will be deposited in the
William Inge Collection at Independence Community College, the major repository
of Inge manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia.
Persons
interested in submitting a paper, should submit a copy
(maximum of twenty minutes reading time and designed for
oral presentation to a general audience) or a substantial
abstract, with title, by February 1, 2009, to:
Peter Ellenstein, Artistic Director
The William Inge Center
of the Arts
PO Box 708
Independence, KS
67301
(800) 842-6063
ext.5490
Or via
e-mail:
pellenstein@ingecenter.org
Please forward this
message to anyone or any list you believe may be interested.
For more information on the Festival,
please visit our website:
www.ingecenter.org
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