Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Lavonne Mueller

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Whitefish, MT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005

Lavonne Mueller is a published playwright, textbook author, editor, and Fulbright Fellow. She has had more than ten plays produced Off-Broadway and her play The Only Woman General earned the Critic’s Choice award at the Edinburgh Festival. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in playwriting. Mueller is editor of Elvis Monologues (1997) and Baseball Monologues (1996), both published by Heinemann.

At MacDowell, Lavonne focused on her play, The Wounded Do Not Cry, which is coming out in Best Short American Plays 2005. She also worked on her WWII Trilogy. She received a Fellowship to Brazil for 2006 to work with Brazilian artists on a play for children.

Studios

Calderwood

Lavonne Mueller 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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