Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Jorge Cortiñas

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006, 2016

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas is a theater-maker and artistic director of the Obie-winning company Fulcrum Theater. His most recent play, Bird in the Hand, received the coveted designation of a The New York Times Critics Pick and is published by Dramatic Publishing.

Studios

Veltin

Jorge Cortiñas worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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