Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Evan Placey

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: London, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Evan Placey lives in London, England but grew up in Toronto, Canada. He worked on a new play for young audiences. His play Holloway Jones won the United Kingdom's Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People, and his teen play Pronoun was performed by forty different groups around the United Kingdom as part of the National Theatre's Connections festival.

Studios

Calderwood

Evan Placey worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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