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>>> Peter Ellenstein <pellenstein at ingecenter.org> 7/20/2009 1:30 PM >>>
CALL FOR PAPERS

The 29th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference, April 21-24, 2010

The William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference is in its third decade of honoring major living playwrights through a wide range of performances, readings, seminars, workshops, lectures, panel discussions and historical activities.  For four days each year, the small city of Independence, Kansas, becomes the theatrical center of the universe with visits from the greatest playwrights, directors, actors and other theatre practitioners, who all meet to honor a major playwright in a playwright’s town.  Additional awards to a “New Voices” Playwright and a Kansas Citizen of the Arts are also presented.  Next year’s festival will be held April 21-24, 2010.

We are pleased to announce that for the 29th Annual Festival we are honoring the work of the great American playwright, Paula Vogel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama and many other awards.  In addition to her work as a playwright, Ms. Vogel has taught and inspired many of the finest young playwrights in America.

Past recipients are: Jerome Lawrence, William Gibson, Robert Anderson, John Patrick, Garson Kanin, Sidney Kingsley, Robert E. Lee, Horton Foote, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Edward Albee, Peter Shaffer, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Lanford Wilson, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Romulus Linney, Arthur Laurents, Tina Howe, Sheldon Harnick, Christopher Durang, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers, designed for a 15 minute oral presentation, are invited on the films and plays of William Inge, and on the works of Paula Vogel.  Preference will be given to papers dealing with William Inge.  Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be deposited in the William Inge Collection at Independence Community College, the major repository of Inge manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia.

Persons interested in submitting a paper, should submit a copy (maximum of twenty minutes reading time and designed for oral presentation to a general audience) or a substantial abstract, with title, by November 1, 2009 for priority consideration, although papers may be considered that are submitted after that date.  Electronic submissions encouraged.  Please submit to:

Peter Ellenstein, Artistic Director
Jackson Bryer, Conference Chair
The William Inge Center of the Arts
PO Box 708
Independence, KS  67301
(800) 842-6063 ext.5490

Or via e-mail: pellenstein at ingecenter.org 

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For more information on the Festival and Inge Center, please visit our website:   www.ingecenter.org