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Iowa Playwrights Workshop

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

Program News

5Q Interview: SP O'Brien, Playwrights Workshop MFA Candidate

Submitted by lhaldema on March 30, 2020
"It's easier for me to write when it's dark or when the weather is gnarly. "

The First and Best Home for Writers

Submitted by lhaldema on March 4, 2020
An exploration of the UI writing community

Global Express – Free & Open to All This Friday, Oct. 11, 8PM

Submitted by lhaldema on October 9, 2019
Visiting IWP Writers Collaborate with UI Theatre Students

5Q Interview: Nina Morrison, MFA Candidate in Playwriting

Submitted by lhaldema on May 25, 2018
"I need external motivation, and when it is not readily available, I have to create it."

5Q Interview: Leigh M. Marshall, MFA Candidate Iowa Playwrights Workshop

Submitted by lhaldema on May 7, 2018
Marshall is a writer and actor from San Francisco, California
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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
Phone: 319.353.2401
Email: art-borreca@uiowa.edu
Playwrights Workshop website
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