News Release
November 11, 2009
ICC Student Playwright
Readings November 19
New
plays by Independence
Community College
students in the
Professional Playwriting
Certificate Program at
William Inge Center for
the Arts will have a
reading of their
works-in-progress on
Thursday, November 19,
at 7:00 p.m., at the
William Inge Theatre.
Admission is free.
The
instructors are Inge
family home
playwrights-in-residence
Philip Dawkins and Sean
Christopher Lewis.
As part of their
residency, they write
their own plays in the
same surroundings that
inspired Inge to his
Pulitzer Prize and
Oscar-winning work,
which include “Picnic,”
“Bus Stop,” and
“Splendor in the Grass.”
The
William Inge Center for
the Arts is named for
the late William Inge,
an Independence native
and alumnus of ICC who
won the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama for “Picnic”
and the Oscar for Best
Screenplay for “Splendor
in the Grass”.
In
addition to the Kansas
Arts Commission, the
program is supported in
part by grants from the
National Endowment for
the Arts, the William T.
Kemper Foundation, and
the Dramatists
Guild Fund.
For
more information on the
Playwriting Certificate
Program or other Inge
Center activities,
contact the Center at
(620) 332-5492 or visit
www.ingecenter.org.
