STAGE TUBE: 10 OUT OF 12 Playwright Anne Washburn Mentors Students in WA

As a part of the Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program, playwright Anne Washburn visited Ellensburg, WA, to talk to students and early-career writers about the craft and business of being a dramatist. Click below to go behind the scenes!

DGF's Traveling Masters Program brings prominent dramatists into communities across the country to provide students, professional writers, and patrons of the arts with writing workshops, master classes, talkbacks, and other public events.

Anne Washburn's play 10 out of 12 is currently being presented by Soho Rep in New York. Her other plays include The Internationalist, A Devil AtNoon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides' Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, The Gate, Playwrights Horizons, Red Eye, Soho Rep, Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company,Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Chochiqq, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P. Currently commissioned by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, and Yale Rep.

Traveling Masters have included Jason Robert Brown, Annie Baker, Pearl Cleage, Daniel Beaty, Lisa Kron, Andrew Lippa, among others. Upcoming Traveling Masters events feature playwrights Melissa James Gibson (Placebo, THIS and Other Plays), Terrence McNally (It's Only A Play, Love! Valour! Compassion!) and Cusi Cram (Dusty and the Big Bad World, All the Bad Things).

For more about the program, go to dgfund.org/programs.html.

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