S156. What Playwrights Bring to the Composition Classroom
Saturday, April 2, 2016
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
Normandy Sherwood is a playwright and a writing teacher. Her collaborative theater company, the OBIE award-winning National Theater of the United States of America, has presented its works all over the USA and abroad. She teaches expository writing at New York University.
Sam Chanse is a New York-based playwright and performer, A Sundance Ucross Playwright Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and author of Lydia’s Funeral Video. She recived her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and in musical theater writing from NYU’s Tisch.
Eliza Bent is a performer / playwright / journalist.
Benjamin Gassman is a playwright, essayist, and language lecturer in expository writing at New York University. His plays have been developed and produced at 3LD, E. 13th St. Rep, The Bushwick Starr, the Jewish Plays Project, and Dixon Place in New York. He has been a resident at Yaddo.