Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program Enlists Playwright Madeleine George

The Dramatists Guild Fund (DGF) announces that playwright Madeleine George will conduct a master class with students and early career writers at the College of Charleston (66 George Street Charleston, South Carolina 29424) on February 5th at 4:00 PM, during the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as part of the Traveling Masters Program.

The Traveling Masters program is a national outreach program that brings prominent dramatists into communities across the country to lead master classes, workshops, talkbacks and other public events. Madeleine George, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, will be the first Traveling Master for the Dramatists Guild Fund in 2016. Madeleine joins over 20 other dramatists who have participated in the program nation-wide. Traveling Masters have included Jason Robert Brown, Annie Baker, Pearl Cleage, Anne Washburn, Daniel Beaty, Lisa Kron, Andrew Lippa, among others.

Madeleine George's plays include The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little, and The Zero Hour (Jane Chambers Award, Lambda Literary Award finalist). They've made their way to the stage through workshops at Berkeley Rep, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, About Face Theater, and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and have been performed for the viewing public at Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, 13P, Shotgun Players in Berkeley, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Theater Wit in Chicago, Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, and Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, among many other places. Madeleine has been a Princess Grace Playwriting Fellow, a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and a Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow, and she holds commissions from the Sloan Foundation/Manhattan Theatre Club, Two River Theater, and the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis. She's a resident playwright at New Dramatists (class of 2017), a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights' collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), and for seven years served as director of the Bard College satellite campus at Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan.

The Traveling Masters program is a national outreach program that sends prominent dramatists into communities across the country for writing workshops, master classes, talkbacks, and other public events. In partnership with leading regional theaters and universities, Traveling Masters creates local programming that gives theater professionals and the public first-hand experience with renowned artists.

For more information visit: http://dgfund.org/programs.html#traveling_masters