Playwright Melissa James Gibson Set for DGF Traveling Masters Event in Philadelphia Tonight

The Dramatists Guild Fund with PlayPenn and University of the Arts will present A Traveling Masters Event with Melissa James Gibson (Placebo, All Is Bright, The Americans) as part of DGF's Traveling Masters Program tonight, November 13 at 6:30 PM at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (401 South Broad Street). This event is free and open the public but seating is limited and attendees should RSVP to RSVP@DGFund.org.

DGF's Traveling Masters Program brings prominent dramatists into communities across the country to provide insight into their craft and creative process. Award-winning playwright and "House of Cards" writer Melissa James Gibson comes to Philadelphia for one night to discuss her working life and the synergy between writing for stage and screen(s) both large and small.

Melissa James Gibson's plays include PLACEBO (Playwrights Horizons); WHAT RHYMES WITH AMERICA (Atlantic Theater Company); THIS (Playwrights Horizons); [sic] and SUITCASE or, those that resemble flies from a distance (Soho Rep); BROOKLYN BRIDGE, with a song by Barbara Brousal (Children's Theatre Company) and CURRENT NOBODY (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). Her work has been produced and/ or developed at Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, among others. Current commissions: Atlantic Theater Company and Second Stage Theatre. Honors: OBIE Award; GuggenheimFellowship; Steinberg Playwright Award; Kesselring Prize; Whiting Writers Award; Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights' Fellowship; LILLY Award; Jerome Fellowship; MacDowell Colony Fellowship; NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights. Melissa holds a degree from the Yale School of Drama and is a graduate of New Dramatists. Film: All Is Bright, starring Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd and Sally Hawkins, directed by Phil Morrison (2013 Tribeca Film Festival). TV: The Americans and House of Cards. THIS and Other Plays is available from TCG books.

The Traveling Masters program is a national outreach program that brings experienced dramatists into communities across the country to lead master classes, workshops, talkbacks and other public events. Traveling Masters have included Jason Robert Brown, Annie Baker, Pearl Cleage, Anne Washburn, Daniel Beaty, Lisa Kron, among others. Other Traveling Masters events this fall included Terrence McNally and Andrew Lippa.

The Traveling Masters Program is a national public education program in which the Dramatists Guild Fund partners with regional theaters and universities to provide writing workshops, master classes, and public symposia in the craft of writing for the theater. DGF brings prominent dramatists into communities across the country to create local programming that gives theater professionals, students, and the public first-hand experience with renowned artists.

For more information visit dgfund.org/programs/#TravelingMasters.