Open Forum

I'm getting ready for year three of an MFA in Playwriting at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The program is a low residency/high-intensity program that really lets you keep your teaching gig going while working on the MFA(or MA or certificates). 

I loved my summer at Hollins and I have been looking forward to going back since I pulled out of campus last July. The program is intense and takes place over 6 weeks during the summer for 3, 4, or 5 summers. I was really able to take those six weeks and focus on myself as a student and loved the feeling of being a student again. I have two other master's degrees in the most random of things, but I really love this program. 

I wanted to take a minute and invite you to investigate the program also known as "Hollins Playwright's Lab."   In the Playwright's Lab we work together with actors, directors, producers, and our fellow writers to truly understand the meaning of "new work." The faculty come from all over to support the creation of new work. Remember every play you have ever read or seen was a new play at some point.

You don't have be in love with playwriting to benefit from some time in the graduate program at Hollins and the Playwright's Lab.  In addition to the MFA in Playwriting, The Playwright's Lab offers:

I would love to have more teachers or high school/middle school directors in the program. It fits so nicely into our teacher schedule, and I changed by pedagogy a bit upon my return from Summer one. This school year one of my writing assignments from an adaptation class has been selected to attend SETC, won the state championship, and has been selected for the Chapter Select festival at ITF!