March 31 - Southern Literary Festival master class with Tina Howe

3/31/2012
9 a.m

On Saturday, March 31, from 9 a.m. to noon, Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Tina Howe will host a master class as part of the Southern Literary Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Location TBA.

Howe, author of “Pride’s Crossing” and “Painting Churches,” will discuss six, 10-minute plays selected from works submitted by Lipscomb University students. Lipscomb actors will read the six plays, and Howe will give feedback on each.

A two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Howe has been a visiting professor at Hunter College since 1990 and is playwright-in-residence of the new Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting.   Among her many awards are an Obie for distinguished playwriting, a Tony nomination for best play, an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature,  the Sidney Kingsley Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award,  two honorary degrees and the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre. 

All Southern Literary Festival workshops are open to Lipscomb students and faculty, and selected workshops are open to the public free of charge. Go to events.lipscomb.edu to see more festival workshops open to the public.

Also, Lipscomb's Theatre Department will be performing "Prides Crossing", for more information click here.