2008 Woodie Awards
Playwrights Festival brings student shows to the stage
By: Angela To
Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: Features
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For the past few weeks DePauw Theatre has been preparing for the Playwrights Festival. This festival is a collection of eight 10-minute plays that are written, directed, produced, acted and organized solely by students.
Alpha Psi Omega, the theater fraternity on campus, sponsors this student-led festival once a semester. Members of this fraternity are students who simply have an interest and love for creating magic on stage.
Sophomores Becca Dray and Caroline Tell are in charge of the event this semester. Dray said the Playwrights Festival allows all students, experienced or inexperienced, to showcase their talents through different aspects of the theater such as acting, writing and directing.
"It's just a great opportunity for students, actors, young actors, young writers to experiment, bring their stuff out there and to just get some experience on stage in a very intimate setting," Dray said.
In her first year involved in Playwrights, Dray said she is relieved that she has not encountered any major problems, and that the only minor obstacle she has run into so far is fitting rehearsal times and meetings into everyone's schedule.
"Everything gets moved in eventually, but it's just hard because we all are really, really busy and doing all of our other stuff," Dray said.
Freshman Patrick McMullen said he agreed with Dray that the only main problem they had to deal with is working everyone's schedule in for rehearsal times.
"The only difficulties are trying to make sure everyone's schedules work out well enough to rehearse, and it's not really a problem, it's just a matter of communication," McMullen said.
Since students run Playwrights, it allows them to experience and learn different and new things. Senior Brittany Brumfield said she loves being involved in it since it allows her venture out and try new things with theater.
"I have done it in previous years and this year I'm on the board of directors for the review and executive board for Alpha Psi Omega," Brumfield said. "This year I actually wrote a play, directing one and I'm acting in one and so I'm kind of super involved right now, and I really like it."
Alpha Psi Omega, the theater fraternity on campus, sponsors this student-led festival once a semester. Members of this fraternity are students who simply have an interest and love for creating magic on stage.
Sophomores Becca Dray and Caroline Tell are in charge of the event this semester. Dray said the Playwrights Festival allows all students, experienced or inexperienced, to showcase their talents through different aspects of the theater such as acting, writing and directing.
"It's just a great opportunity for students, actors, young actors, young writers to experiment, bring their stuff out there and to just get some experience on stage in a very intimate setting," Dray said.
In her first year involved in Playwrights, Dray said she is relieved that she has not encountered any major problems, and that the only minor obstacle she has run into so far is fitting rehearsal times and meetings into everyone's schedule.
"Everything gets moved in eventually, but it's just hard because we all are really, really busy and doing all of our other stuff," Dray said.
Freshman Patrick McMullen said he agreed with Dray that the only main problem they had to deal with is working everyone's schedule in for rehearsal times.
"The only difficulties are trying to make sure everyone's schedules work out well enough to rehearse, and it's not really a problem, it's just a matter of communication," McMullen said.
Since students run Playwrights, it allows them to experience and learn different and new things. Senior Brittany Brumfield said she loves being involved in it since it allows her venture out and try new things with theater.
"I have done it in previous years and this year I'm on the board of directors for the review and executive board for Alpha Psi Omega," Brumfield said. "This year I actually wrote a play, directing one and I'm acting in one and so I'm kind of super involved right now, and I really like it."
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