Adam Kraar & Alice Tuan --
Spring 2008 Playwrights-in-Residence
Playwrights
Adam Kraar and Alice Tuan will take up residence in Independence
as William Inge Center for the Arts Inge House
Playwrights-in-Residence for Spring of 2008. Both are prior
Inge Center residents and both will be
Playwrights-in-the-Schools instructors at Independence High
School.
During
their two-month residency, the writers will enjoy time to write
and have a developmental reading of one of their plays with
the aide of numerous guest artists. They will also instruct for the Inge
Center’s Professional Playwriting Certificate program at
Independence Community College.
Adam Kraar’s
plays include
New World Rhapsody (commissioned by Manhattan Theatre
Club); The Spirit House (workshopped at Geva Theatre,
premiered at Performance Network of Ann Arbor); The Abandoned
El (workshopped at William Inge Center, premiered at
Illinois Theatre Center); The Lost Cities of Asher (New
River Dramatists Fellowship; Finalist, 2005 O’Neill Playwrights
Conference)and Freedom High (winner of the Handel
Playwright Fellowship from the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Arts Guild).
Adam was a
Playwriting Fellow in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club. His
plays have been produced and developed in New York by Ensemble
Studio, Primary Stages, N.Y. Stage and Film, N.Y. Shakespeare
Festival, Cherry Lane Theatre, LaMama ETC, The Lark, Abingdon,
H.B. Playwrights Foundation, Rude Mechanicals, Urban Stages,
Queens Theatre in the Park and Theatreworks U.S.A.; and
regionally at New Jersey Rep, Montana Rep, N.Y. State Theatre
Institute, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Key West Theatre
Festival, and others.
Adam Kraar’s
plays have won awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference,
Virtual Theatre Project and the Southeastern Theatre Conference;
and are published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus,
Sundance Publishers and Applause Books’ Best American Short
Plays. Adam grew up in India, Thailand, Singapore and the
U.S., earned an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and lives in
Brooklyn with his wife Karen.
Alice Tuan is the recipient of
emerging artist recognition for the year 2000 of the Robert
E. Sherwood Award (through Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum),
East West Players National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre
Communications Group Residency Grant, as well as The
Colbert Award for Excellence (through New York’s Downtown
Arts Project). She is a graduate of the MFA Creative
Writing Program at Brown University.
Her productions include “Last
of the Suns,” at Berkeley Rep; “Fetch” at the Actors Theatre
of Louisville, and “Ikebana” at the East West Players of Los
Angeles. Tuan has taught English as a Second Language in
China and Los Angeles and playwriting to teenage wards in
the Fred C. Nelles School at the California Youth Authority
as well as high schools around Los Angeles. She recently
represented the United States this fall at the 6th
International Women’s Playwright Festival in Manila, the
Philippines. Tuan is currently the visiting professor of
playwriting at the Michener Center for Writers at the
University of Texas, Austin.
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Fall 2007 Inge
House Playwrights-in-Residence were
Julianne Homokay of
Los Angeles
and Robert Koon of Chicago
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Spring 2007 Inge
House Playwrights-in-Residence were
Sheila Callaghan of
New York
and Dominic
Orlando of
Minneapolis
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information)
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Fall 2006 Inge Playwrights
were
David Scott Hay of
Chicago
and Lydia Stryk of Berlin, Germany
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information)
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Spring 2006 Inge Playwrights
were
Mickey Birnbaum of Los
Angeles
and Catherine Filloux of New York
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information)
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Fall 2005 Inge Playwrights
began teaching September 20, 2005
Alice Tuan of Los
Angeles
and Evan Smith of Savannah, GA
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information)
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Spring 2005 Inge Playwrights
began teaching March 15, 2005
Brian Davidson of Los Angeles and Lisa Dillman of Chicago
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information)
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Fall
2004 Inge House Playwrights began teaching September 2004
Caridad Svich of Los Angeles
and Adam Kraar of New York
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information)
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Spring
2004 Inge House Playwrights began teaching April 2004
Carson
Becker of Chicago and Jeremy Kareken of New York
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information)
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Winter 2004 Inge House
Playwrights began teaching Jan. 12
Richard
Broadhurst of Sacramento and Rose Portillo of Los Angeles
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information)
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Fall 2003 Inge House
Playwrights began teaching September 4th
Anne Phelan of New York and
Elaine Romero of Tucson, Arizona
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information)
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Spring
2003 Playwrights were David Scott Hay of Chicago and
Melanie Marnich of
Minneapolis.
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information)
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Fall 2002 Playwrights began
teaching in October
Marcia Cebulska of Topeka
and Colin Denby Swanson of Texas
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information)
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Professional playwrights from
across the country
will leave their homes to reside in Independence, Kansas, in the
historic home of the late playwright, William Inge, as the
William Inge Center for the Arts Playwrights-in-Residence.
While in residence, the playwrights will teach a playwriting class
at Independence Community College and at a local high school. The playwrights will have time to work on their own plays
while living in the historic
boyhood
home of award-winning
writer and
Independence native, William Inge.
