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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

Five Reads for Friday: August 14, 2020

Submitted by lhaldema on August 14, 2020
Literary Treasures from our family to yours

5Q Interview: Emma Silverman, Playwrights Workshop

Submitted by lhaldema on June 5, 2020
"I love redrafting, rewriting, and finding ways to make my plays fun for actors, directors, designers and other collaborators."

5Q Interview: Ikram Basra, Playwrights Workshop

Submitted by lhaldema on May 11, 2020
"I love the flexibility of words."

5Q Interview: K.T. Peterson, Playwriting MFA Candidate

Submitted by lhaldema on April 27, 2020
"... there are absolutely horseback-riding librarians in it."

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. "
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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
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