WordBRIDGE PLAYWRIGHTS LABORATORY 2008

LAB DATES -- June 6-22, 2008

WordBRIDGE is proud to announce
the selected playwrights for 2008:

George Brant - Any Other Name
(University of Texas – Austin)
Megan Gogerty+ - Pandas
(WB 1996 and WB 1998)
Mary Hamilton - Um..Like America
(University of Iowa, Iowa Playwrights Workshop)
David Jacobi - Self Destruction Opera
(SUNY Purchase)
Nathan Warren Lane* - Demon Holler
(Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University)
Nick Mazzuca - Through the Blue Door
(Clemson University)
Ben Viccellio - No More
(Northwestern University)
and
Anne Garcia-Romero
Playwright-in-Residence

+ Boomerang Playwright sponsored by the Boomerang Artists Fund
* Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Playwright-In-Residence

“...in the space of a mere hour see one performer change the entire course of an established art form...”  Barton Wimble, New York Daily News

June 13 and 14th, 2008
at 8:00 P.M.

Tribute to Playwrights
Timepiece

Created and Performed by
Daniel Stein

For more details on this performance,
visit our Tribute to Playwrights page.

Join us June 14th at 8:00 P.M. for our Tribute to Playwrights and be our guests immediately following the performance at the reception to meet and honor the 2008 WordBRIDGE playwrights.

Guest Artist Hours
Cost:  Free and Open to Public
Dates:  June 10, 11, 12 and 16, 17, 18, 19
Time:  4:30 – 5:30 P.M.
Location: All Guest Artist Hour events will take place in the Bellamy Theater, in the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts at Clemson University

Specific Events (click on event or participant name for more info):

WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory is a collaboration between the Department of Performing Arts at Clemson University and the Generous Company. Founded in 1994 by Dr. Richard A. Rice, WordBRIDGE was hosted through 2003 at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. After a hiatus, it was revived in 2007 at it's new home at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

WordBRIDGE provides a "bridge" for gifted collegiate playwrights between the private, theoretical, and academic aspects of playwriting and the real world of theatre. To refine the creative vision that first sparked their full-length plays, playwrights will be chosen on the basis of their originality, theatricality, vision, freshness of voice, strong characters, and intriguing dramatic premises.

WordBRIDGE offers each author a two-week development process with a collaborative team of professional artists, from dramaturges, psychologists, and directors to designers, technicians, and musicians.

and

Clemson, South Carolina

National Advisory Board
Len Berkman | Lee Blessing | Julia Cho | Gary Garrison
David Kranes | Melanie Marnich | Ethan Phillips
J Ranelli | Richard Rice | Kimberly Scott