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English department
English Department Faculty
Chris White |
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M.F.A. (New York University) |
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Chris White received a BA in Theatre from the University of Colorado in Boulder, additional training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles, and earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her plays have been produced at 13th Street Repertory, 18th Street Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Source, and the Goldman Theatre in NYC; at Horizons Theatre and New Works Theatre in Washington DC; at Ki Theatre in Washington, Virginia; at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis; at Hollins, DePauw, Ball State and New York Universities; and received readings and staged readings at venues that include Horizons Theatre in D.C., Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, the William Morris Agency in NYC, the Guild Theatre in Boulder, Colorado, and Bloomington Playwrights Project in Bloomington, Indiana. Her play, Rhythms, was awarded the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (Charles McArthur Award); her play, Sin Eater, earned Honorable Mention in the American College Theatre Festival; her play, Thespian, was a finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville and chosen for the 2001 Ten-minute Play Festival at New York University; and her play, Mud Lotus, was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference. Chris was commissioned to write a new play for Hollins University (Sin Eater), where she also taught workshops in playwriting. In 2007, she was awarded a Mellon Grant to direct her play, Rhythms, which received both university and regional theatre productions, with a cast that included Rae Dawn Chong and Nicole Halmos. Another commissioned play, Two-Character Play, will be published (and was filmed for inclusion) in an upcoming introduction to theatre digital textbook for Allyn & Bacon. Most recently, her screenplay adaptation of her play, Thaw, now titled Weasel in the Icebox, made first cut at the 2008 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and is currently in development. Chris is a full time faculty member at DePauw, teaching dramatic writing (screenwriting and playwriting) and dramatic literature. |
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