Iowa Playwrights Workshop

The Iowa Playwrights Workshop is an intensive three-year program dedicated to educating playwrights for the professional theatre.

Program News

University of Iowa Theatre presents Tony-winning 'Fun Home'

Submitted by lhaldema on December 16, 2017
Play won five Tony Awards

An Interview with Kia Corthron

Submitted by lhaldema on April 4, 2016
Corthron will be reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore at 4pm on April 10th.

Book Wings: South Africa

Submitted by lhaldema on March 10, 2015
The University of Iowa links up with the a collaborative theatre performances.

Book Wings 2014 partners with Baghdad and Moscow

Submitted by lhaldema on March 6, 2014
Performances will take place simultaneously with theaters, March 11 and March 13

Three UI Alumni Win 2012 Whiting Writers' Awards

Submitted by lhaldema on October 25, 2012
Congratulations to Alan Heathcock, Samuel D. Hunter and Anthony Marra and all of this year's Whiting Winners!
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Program Highlights

✚   Three-year program offering MFA in Playwriting

✚   Graduates include the playwrights Tennessee Williams, Lee Blessing, Sherry Kramer, Charles Smith, John O'Keeffe, David Hancock, Naomi Wallace, Rebecca Gilman, David Adjmi, Kirsten Greenidge, and Samuel Hunter

✚   Film and television writer-producers graduates include Richard Maibaum, Norman Felton, Barry Kemp, and Rick Cleveland

Iowa Playwrights Workshop

The Iowa Playwrights Workshop—The University of Iowa's MFA Program in Playwriting—is an intensive three-year program dedicated to educating playwrights for the professional theatre.

The objective of the program is to train talented playwrights as writers and collaborative theatre artists who will lead the American theatre in the creation of new works and the training of future generations of writers and artists.

107 Theatre Building
The University of Iowa

 Iowa City, IA 52242-1705

Phone: 319.353.2401
Email: art-borreca@uiowa.edu
Playwrights Workshop website
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