Adam Szymkowicz at Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance

Adam Szymkowicz at Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance

The Dramatists Guild Fund’s Traveling Masters Program to feature Adam Szymkowicz at Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance on September 22 thru September 24

Playwright Adam Szymkowicz (Deflowering Waldo, Clown Bar) and blogger of “I Interview Playwrights” leads public workshops and a post reading talk-back of his new play Alcott as part of the Dramatists Guild Fund’s Traveling Masters Program at the Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance on September 23 and 24.

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, the Dramatists Guild Fund creates local programming that gives students, theater professionals, and the public first-hand experience with renowned artists.

In addition to the public events on Sept. 23 and 24, students, faculty, and the local arts community are invited into the rehearsal process of Alcott, which was commissioned by Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance- Harrison/Bowman New Works Commission and will be developed at Texas State.

All rehearsals and events are free and open to the public, thanks, in part, to DGF supporters across the country and Delta, the Official Presenting Sponsor of the Dramatists Guild Fund’s Traveling Masters Program, as well as help from our local partners,

Thursday Sept 22 at 6:30-10:30 PM
First read thru and rehearsal for Alcott
PSH Foundation Studio Theatre at
Texas State University Theatre Center
430 Moon Street, San Marcos, TX

Friday Sept 23 at 1:00-1:45pm
Q and A with Playwright
Main Stage at Texas State University Theatre Center
430 Moon Street, San Marcos, TX

Friday Sept 23 at 2:00-4:50pm
Scene Work/Collaboration Workshop
Main Stage at Texas State University Theatre Center
430 Moon Street, San Marcos, TX

Friday Sept 23 at 6:30-10:30pm
Alcott Rehearsal
PSH Foundation Studio Theatre at
Texas State University Theatre Center
430 Moon Street, San Marcos, TX

Saturday, Sept 24 at 12:00pm
Adam Szymkowicz at Texas State University
Staged Reading of Alcott with Post-Show Talkback:
Inside the Script with Adam Szymkowicz
PSH Foundation Studio Theatre at
Texas State University Theatre Center
430 Moon Street, San Marcos, TX

All events and rehearsals are free and open to the public. Any questions can be directed to Kaitlin Hopkins at kh40@txstate.edu.

Adam Szymkowicz joins over 30 esteemed dramatists who have participated in the Traveling Masters Program. Other 2016 Traveling Masters have included Paula Vogel (How I Learned To Drive, The Baltimore Waltz) in Minneapolis, MN; Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51, The Last Match) in Pittsburgh, PA; Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once On This Island) in Kaneohe, HI; Madeleine George (The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence) in Charleston, SC; Chisa Hutchinson (Dead and Breathing, Dirt Rich, She Like Girls) in Shepherdstown, WV; Laura Jacqmin (Dental Society Midwinter Meeting, Residence) in Ashland, OR; Lauren Yee (King Of The Yees, The Hatmaker’s Wife) in Kansas City, MO; Philip Kan Gotanda (After the War Blues, Love in American Times) in Portland, OR; and Terrence McNally (Master Class, Love! Valour! Compassion!) in Buffalo, NY.

Adam Szymkowicz’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Slovenia and Lithuania.   His work has been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Lark, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Primary Stages and The New Group, among others.

Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, My Base and Scurvy Heart, Herbie,Incendiary, Clown Bar, Fat Cat Killers, The Why Overhead, Adventures of Super Margaret, Elsewhere, Where You Can’t Follow, A Thing of Beauty, UBU, Mercy, Rare Birds, Violent Bones, Sarah Sarah Sarah, Good Morning Good Night, Colchester, Alcott, Such Small Hands, Marian, The Haddam Plays and Nerve. For more, go towww.adamszymkowicz.com.