Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Mac Wellman

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013

Mac Wellman's recent work includes The Offending Gesture, directed by Meghan Finn at the Connelly Theater in 2016; Muazzez at the Chocolate Factory (PS122’s COIL Festival) with Steve Mellor, in 2014; and 3 2's; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011. His books of poetry include Miniature (2002), Strange Elegies (2006), Split the Stick (2012) from Roof Books, and Left Glove (2011) from Solid Objects Press. His novel Linda Perdido won the 2011 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is distinguished professor of play writing at Brooklyn College.

Studios

Banks

Mac Wellman worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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