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Op/Ed
Regarding MFAs
Mar 01, 2019
Op/Ed
Jeffrey Sweet. Illustration by Dan Romer for The Dramatist.
Jeffrey Sweet. Illustration by Dan Romer for The Dramatist.

Somehow Eugene O’Neill revolutionized American drama without an MFA in playwriting. Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Neil Simon, Jules Feiffer, and Edward Albee also did okay without being so credentialed.

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Jeffrey Sweet
Jeffrey Sweet

was a resident writer at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater, where they produced more than a dozen of his plays, winning Chicago’s Jeff Award, two ATCA prizes, and the Audelco Award. Jeff will next direct his play The Value of Names in London, and a new play, A Change of Position, is scheduled to open at New Jersey Rep in the spring. His book The Dramatist’s Toolkit is in use as a text in a number of playwriting programs.

Related Dramatist(s)
Neil Simon,
Jules Feiffer,
Edward Albee,
Paula Vogel,
Marsha Norman,
Christopher Durang,
Lynn Nottage
Related Organization(s)
Yale School of Drama,
University of Iowa Theatre Arts Department,
The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Fellowship,
NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program,
Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program,
New School For Drama,
Northwestern University,
Hollins University Graduate Program in Playwriting,
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,
National Playwrights Conference – The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,
Yale Repertory Theatre
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