Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Arlene Hutton

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Charleston, SC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2005, 2012

Arlene Hutton is best known for her play Last Train to Nibroc, which received a Drama League nomination for Best Play. Her plays have been presented Off-Broadway, in London, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and around the world. She divides her time between NYC and Charleston, where she was researching MacDowell Fellow Dorothy Heyward.

Studios

Heyward

Arlene Hutton worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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