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12th Annual
Wendy Wasserstein Wendy Wasserstein was the recipient of "The William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre" during a special program of tribute on the stage of the William Inge Theatre on Saturday, April 17, 1993. Ms. Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. She received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an MFA from The Yale School of Drama. Her off-Broadway play Uncommon Women and Others, about eight Holyoke women facing adulthood at the height of the women’s movement, was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in 1978. In 1988, Ms. Wasserstein was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Prize, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Tony Award for her play, The Heidi Chronicles. The Heidi Chronicles follows witty, earnest Heidi Holland from the unenlightened early ‘60s into the every-woman-for-herself ‘80s, when Heidi begins to feel "stranded" by the choices she’s made. The Sisters Rosensweig opened at Lincoln Center in October of 1992 and moved to Broadway in March of 1993 starring Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, and Frances McDormand under the direction of Daniel Sullivan. Her other credits include Isn’t It Romantic, Any Woman Can’t, Montpelier, Pa-Zazz and Miami. For PBS’s Great Performance series, she has written Drive, She Said and adapted John Cheever’s The Sorrows of Gin, as well as her own Uncommon Women and Others. Ms. Wasserstein is the author of Bachelor Girls (Knopf), a collection of essays, and The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich). She serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, on the Board of the British American Arts Association, and as a member of Playwrights Horizons’ artist board. She has taught at Columbia University and New York University, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Mt. Holyoke College. She served as a contributing editor of New York Woman magazine. She conducted "A Conversation with Wendy Wasserstein" on Friday, April 16 at 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Inge Theatre. She also participated in the panel discussions "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall and "Playwrights Panel: Past, Present, and Future" on Saturday, April 17 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.
The Twelfth Annual THURSDAY, APRIL 15 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.--REGISTRATION in the Margaret Goheen Foyer of the William Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. FILM FESTIVAL featured "Penn Avenue to Broadway" (documentary on Inge) and other Inge films: Splendor in the Grass, Picnic, Bus Stop, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and Come Back, Little Sheba. Fine Arts Room 1, Fine Arts Building. FREE 10:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M.—WILLIAM INGE COLLECTION opened to visitors. College Library, Academic Building. 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.--Tour of "WILLIAM INGE’S INDEPENDENCE." Met in the Margaret Goheen Foyer, Fine Arts Building. FREE 1:15 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.--"MUSICAL ADAPATATION OF INGE’S WORK." A panel discussion moderated by Gene DeGruson, Director of Special Collections at Pittsburg State University. Panel members included: Colby Kullman, The University of Mississippi, and Ralph Voss, The University of Alabama. Lecture Hall, Academic Building. FREE 2:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.--"THE DRAMATIST’S TOOL KIT." A talk by playwright, writer, and co-editor of The Best Plays, Jeffrey Sweet. Lecture Hall, Academic Building. FREE 7:30 P.M.—MARGARET’S BED, by William Inge. A staged one-act, two-character play starring Kaitlin Hopkins, actress on NBC’s Another World, and actor Kristofer Soul. Discussion followed with Dan Sullivan, theatre critic and writer. William Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. All seats reserved. Admission: $5.00 (ICC students free). FRIDAY, APRIL 12 8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.--REGISTRATION in the Margaret Goheen Foyer of the William Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. THE WILLIAM INGE COLLECTION opened to visitors. College Library, Academic Building. FILM FESTIVAL continued in FA1, Fine Arts Building. (Check schedule at Registration Desk) FREE 9:00 A.M - 10:00 A.M.-- "A CONVERSATION WITH WENDY WASSERSTEIN." Ms. Wasserstein discussed the theatre and responded to questions. Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. FREE 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.—"WORKING ON THE SOAPS." A panel discussion with Kaitlin Hopkins, Jeffrey Sweet, Kristofer Soul, John Connolly and Barry Bengsten. Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. FREE 11:00 A.M - 12:00 P.M.--"I REMEMBER INGE." A panel discussion moderated by Dan Sullivan. Panel members included John Connolly, Philip Clarkson, and Mark Minton. William Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Building. FREE 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.—HONORS LUNCHEON in the Fireside Room, Student Union. FEE: $7.50 1:15 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.—"HOW TO AUDITION." Workshop, conducted by Jason and Stefanie Milligan. Opened to students and adults. Music Hall, Fine Arts Bldg. FEE: $10.00, Students $5.00 (ICC/IHS students free) 1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.--SCHOLAR’S CONFERENCE with Conference Director: Dr. Jackson Bryer, The University of Maryland. Lecture Hall, Academic Building. FREE 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.--Tour of "WILLIAM INGE’S INDEPENDENCE." Met in the Margaret Goheen Foyer, Fine Arts Bldg. FREE 7:00 P.M.--"A GALA DINNER Party at the Independence Country Club" with special guest Senator Nancy Kassebaum. The awarding of the 1992 Margo Jones Award and Medal. All seats reserved. $20.00 SATURDAY, APRIL 17 8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.--REGISTRATION in the Margaret Goheen Foyer of the William Inge Theatre, Fine Arts Bldg. 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.--THE WILLIAM INGE COLLECTION opened to visitors. College Library, Academic Building. FILM FESTIVAL continued in Fine Arts Room 1, Fine Arts Building. 8:45 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.--"PUBLISHING YOUR PLAY." A panel discussion with Abbott VanNostrand, President of Samuel French, Inc., play publishers; Robert Anderson, Jerome Lawrence, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Parnell, Otis Guernsey, and Jeffrey Sweet. Lecture Hall, Academic Building. FEE: $10.00 (ICC students free) 10:00 A.M - 11:30 A.M.--"NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN THEATRE: 1994." Scenes from playwright Jason Milligan’s new play, Men in Suits. Session was directed by Otis Guernsey. Lecture Hall, Academic Building. FEE: $10.00 (ICC students free) 11:45 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.--"PICNIC LUNCHEON" at Riverside Park, Main Shelter House. FEE: $7.50 1:15 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.--"PLAYWRIGHTS PANEL: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE." A seminar with Wendy Wasserstein, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert Anderson. Moderated by David LeVine, Lecture Hall, Academic Building. FEE: $10.00 (ICC students free) 2:45 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.--"ACTING WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS" conducted by Kaitlin Hopkins. Music Hall, Fine Arts Building. FEE: $10.00 (ICC students free) 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.--Tour of "WILLIAM INGE’S INDEPENDENCE." Met in the Margaret Goheen Foyer, Fine Arts Building. FREE 8:00 P.M.--"TRIBUTE TO WENDY WASSERSTEIN." Excerpts were shown from Ms. Wasserstein’s plays and tributes form friends both live and taped, and special appearances by Broadway actors. Presentation of "THE WILLIAM INGE FESTIVAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE," Mike Wood, producer. William Inge Theatre. All seats reserved. $15.00 (ICC students free). All seats reserved. 1993 Special Guests and Festival Participants Robert Anderson (Inge Award Recipient in 1985) was a panel member on the discussion "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. He also participated in the panel discussion "Playwrights Panel: Past, Present, and Future" on Saturday, April 17 at 1:25 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. Berry Bengsten is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS and a Fulbright Scholar at Barking College near London in 1985. He worked with costume designer Carol Luiken on ABC’s All My Children for a semester sabbatical. Bengsten has done stage design work for the Missouri Repertory Theatre and the Topeka Civic Theatre. He was a panel member on the discussion "Working on the Soaps" on Friday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in the Inge Theatre. Philip B. Clarkson was Literary Executor for William Inge from 1968 to 1973. A Ph.D. in Theatre from Stanford University, Clarkson upon retirement was Professor of Theatre and Dean of Arts and Science at State University of New York. Besides various publications, he has written the book, A Playwright and His Time (with and about William Inge). Clarkson lives in Carmel, CA. He was a panel member on the discussion "I Remember Inge" on Friday, April 16 at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. John Connolly was a panel member on the discussion "Working on the Soaps" on Friday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in the Inge Theatre. He was also a panel member on the discussion "I Remember Inge" on Friday, April 16 at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. See updated bio in 1994 - Terrence McNally. Gene DeGruson was the moderator for "Musical Adaptations of Inge’s Work" on Thursday, April 15 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1995 - Arthur Miller. Otis L. Guernsey Jr. was a panel member on the discussion "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. He also directed the session "New Voices in American Theatre" on Saturday, April 17 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1997 - Neil Simon. Kaitlin Hopkins starred with Kristofer Soul in the one-act, two-character play Margaret’s Bed on Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. She was also a panel member on the discussion "Working on the Soaps" on Friday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in the Inge Theatre. She conducted "Acting Workshop For Adults" on Saturday, April 17, at 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the Music Hall. See updated bio in 1994 - Terrence McNally. Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, was a special guest at the "Dinner with Stage and Screen Legends" gala at the Independence Country Club on Friday, April 16. She was given the "Kansas Citizen of the Arts" award from the Inge Festival for her contribution to the arts in Kansas. Colby Kullman, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is co-editor with Philip C. Kolin of Studies In American Drama, 1945-Present, as well as editor of a two-volume reference book Theatre Companies Of The World, which was nominated for the George Freedley Award. His degrees are from De Pauw University (B.A.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and the University of Kansas (Ph.D.). He participated as a panel member of "Musical Adaptations of Inge’s Work" on Thursday, April 15 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.Jerome Lawrence (Inge Award recipient in 1983) was a panel member on the discussion "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. He also participated in the panel discussion "Playwrights Panel: Past, Present, and Future" on Saturday, April 17 at 1:25 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1995 - Arthur Miller. David LeVine moderated "Playwrights Panel: Past, Present, and Future" on Saturday, April 17 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. Dr. John (Mike) McElhaney is a professor of theatre at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Northwestern University and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has taught at universities and directed theatre groups in California, New York, Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. McElhaney has served as a member of the Arts Council Advisory Boards in Western Connecticut and New York. He has lectured throughout the country on the subject of the national controversy centering around the directing of the play The Normal Heart at Southwest Missouri State University and censorship. McElhaney participated in the panel discussion following the staged reading of Inge’s one-act play Margaret’s Bed. Jason Milligan, conducted the "How to Audition" workshop with his wife Stefanie Milligan on Friday, April 16 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. in the Music Hall. Milligan had the distinction of being named the first playwright chosen for "New Voices in American Theatre," a new addition to the Inge Festival in 1993. "New Voices" was developed by Otis L. Guernsey, Jr. and Festival Director Jill Warford to seek out what emerging playwrights were writing about and what they had to say. The format would include reading scenes or a section from the new playwright's latest work and then to encourage audience discussion about the play. Scenes from Milligan’s play Men in Suits were read at the "New Voices in American Theatre" on Saturday, April 17 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. Stefanie Milligan conducted "How to Audition" with her husband Jason Milligan on Friday, April 16 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. in the Music Hall. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. Mark Minton was secretary to William Inge during the early ‘60s when Inge moved to California. He has worked in radio and television and also worked in the Department of Human Resources for the State of Kansas. Raised in Independence, Minton now resides in Pittsburg, KS. He was a panel member on the discussion "I Remember Inge" on Friday, April 16 at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. Peter Parnell wrote the comedy The Sorrows of Stephen, produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival in its 1979-1980 season. An earlier work, Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top of the World, was presented at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference in 1977. His play The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, which was part of Playwrights Horizons’ 1983 season, has been filmed for PBS and was the inaugural telecast of American Playhouse’s 1986 season. His play Romance Language was produced by Playwrights Horizons in 1984 and at the Mark Taper Forum in 1985. Hyde in Hollywood was produced at the American Place Theatre by Playwrights Horizons in 1989 and filmed for PBS’ American Playhouse which aired in 1991. He has been the recipient of a Reynolds Traveling Fellowship from Dartmouth, playwrighting commissions from the New York Theatre Workshop and the Denver Theatre Center Company, the Nicholas Gargarin Fellowship from Playwrights Horizons, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Parnell was a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting for 1986-87. He was an Ingram Merrill Foundation fellow in 1991. He is a visiting professor of drama at Dartmouth College and a member of the Artistic Board of Playwrights Horizons. Last season his play Flaubert’s Latest was produced at Playwrights Horizons. His play An Imaginary Life, opened their 1993-94 season. He was a panel member on the discussion "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. Kristopher Soul has worked in film, television, and theatre. He was featured as the lead character in the NYU graduate film titled The World Against Jace and as Sergeant Reynolds in the Amerinda film Captain Henkel. He played the character of Mike in the ABC drama, All My Children. In theatre, he has appeared at the Pulse Ensemble Theatre, the Village Theatre, and the Boston University Theatre. Roles include Claudio in Measure For Measure, Joe in Golden Boy, Dan in Night Must Fall, and Bream in Moonchildren, among others. Kris resides in Los Angeles and is the son of actor David Soul. He starred with Kaitlin Hopkins in the one-act, two-character play Margaret’s Bed on Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. He was also a panel member on the discussion "Working on the Soaps" on Friday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in the Inge Theatre. Dan Sullivan led a discussion after the play Margaret’s Bed on Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. He also moderated "I Remember Inge" on Friday, April 16 at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. Jeffrey Sweet’s plays include Porch, The Value of Names, Ties, Stops Along the Way and Routed. His play American Enterprise won the American Theatre Critics Association Award for playwriting. His book for the musical, What About Luv? won the Outer Critics Circle Award. He has written drama, sitcoms, miniseries and TV movies for ABC, CBS, and NBC. His script for the TV version of Pack of Lies (written under a pseudonym) was nominated for an Emmy, and he has also been nominated for an Emmy and a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on One Life to Live. He has served five times on the Tony nominating committee and has co-edited (with Otis L. Guernsey Jr.) seven volumes of The Best Plays annual yearbook. His book on Second City, Something Wonderful Right Away, was called "a classic" by the Chicago Tribune. A new book, The Dramatist’s Toolkit: The Working Writer’s Approach to Craft, was published by Heinemann. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Drama Desk. He presented "The Dramatist’s Tool Kit" on Thursday, April 15 at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall and was a panel member on the discussion "Working on the Soaps" on Friday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. in the Inge Theatre. He was also a panel member on the discussion "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. Ralph F. Voss participated as a panel member in "Musical Adaptations of Inge’s Work" on Thursday, April 15 at 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim. Mike Wood was the producer of the "Tribute To Wendy Wasserstein" on Saturday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Inge Theatre. See updated bio in 1998 - Stephen Sondheim.
Abbott VanNostrand: Recipient of the Abbott VanNostrand (deceased 1995) was awarded The Margo Jones Medal as a "citizen-of-the-theatre" who has demonstrated a significant impact in the living theatre at the Gala Dinner on Friday, April 16. Mr. VanNostrand has been associated with Samual French since 1934 and has served as its president since 1952. Samuel French, Inc., is one of the largest play publishing firms in the world and has offices in New York City, Toronto, and London. Mr. VanNostrand was a member of and/or supporter of virtually every amateur theatre presenting organization in the U.S. and ass affiliated with the new plays program of the American College Theatre Festival. He was also a panel member on the discussion "Publishing Your Play" on Saturday, April 17 at 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall. 1993 Conference Scholars Conference Director: Scholars:
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