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7th Annual
William
Inge Theatre Festival
Sidney Kingsley
The first festival was
held in the William Inge Theatre on Mr. Inge’s birthday and was billed as
"A Birthday Celebration" for both Mr. Inge and for the
"birth" of the Inge Festival. The conference festivities began at
9:30 a.m. and included a showing of the multi-media documentary William
Inge: Penn Avenue to Broadway produced by Mike Wood (see bio update in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim)
and a panel discussion on the topic "William Inge: A Perspective in
1982." The morning session included opening remarks by Independence
Community College President Leon Foster and a welcome by Gary Beaver,
President of ICC Student Council. Tours of the William Inge Collection were
conducted by Del Singleton, Director of Learning Resources at ICC. The
showing of the film and the panel discussion were presented a second time at
7:30 p.m. that evening and the Independence Arts Council hosted a reception
following the session.
Schedule of Events
The First Annual
William Inge Theatre Festival and
Conference
Schedule of Events
May 3, 1982
MONDAY, MAY 3
9:30 A.M. - 11:00
A.M.
Opening remarks by Leon
Foster, President of Independence Community College and a welcome by Gary
Beaver, President of Student Council.
"WILLIAM INGE:
PENN AVENUE TO BROADWAY." Presentation produced by Mike Wood and
presented by Paul Fry.
"WILLIAM INGE, A
PERSPECITVE IN 1982." A panel discussion including: Gary Mitchell,
Independence Community College; Tom Rea, University of Kansas; Jackson Bryer,
University of Maryland; Eugene DeGruson, Pittsburg State University; and
Arthur McClure, Central Missouri State University.
11:00 A.M. Tours of the WILLIAM INGE
COLLECTION. Conducted by Del Singleton, Director of Learning Resources.
Library, Academic Building.
7:30 P.M. "WILLIAM INGE: PENN
AVENUE TO BROADWAY." Presentation produced by Mike Wood and
presented by Paul Fry.
"WILLIAM INGE, A
PERSPECITVE IN 1982." A panel discussion including: Gary Mitchell,
Independence Community College; Tom Rea, University of Kansas; Jackson Bryer,
University of Maryland; Eugene DeGruson, Pittsburg State University; and
Arthur McClure, Central Missouri State University.
Reception in Foyer
sponsored by Independence Arts Council.
Festival Participants
1982 Special Guests and Festival
Participants
Jackson Bryer, Ph.D served as a consultant on the
Inge Collection in 1981 for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is
a professor of American literature at the University of Maryland and is a
well-known authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald. See updated
bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim.
Gene DeGruson, special-collections librarian
at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, and resource person for the
Kansas Humanities Commission, served as a consultant on preparing the Inge
Collection in 1981, with the National Endowment for the Humanities. DeGruson
researched one of the first major biographies on William Inge. He was an
editor of the Little Balkans Journal. See updated
bio in 1995 - Arthur Miller.
Arthur McClure, North Central Missouri State
University in Warrensburg, Missouri, was a specialist in cinema history, a
foremost authority on people who have appeared in the movies. He donated his
own personal collection on Inge to ICC and published an Inge biography. See updated bio in 1995 - Arthur Miller.
Gary Mitchell is a theatre and English
instructor at Independence Community College, Independence, KS. See updated bio in 1983 - Jerome Lawrence.
Tom Rea instructor of drama at the
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, is a veteran actor and director,
especially of musicals and opera, and a long-time admirer of Inge’s work.
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