Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Erin Courtney

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 2014

Erin Courtney is a playwright from Brooklyn, NY. She was writing a play about a California ghost town and she also worked on a musical, with the composer Rick Burkhardt, about a hoarder. She makes drawings sometimes, teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College, and was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Studios

Mixter

Erin Courtney worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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