Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Mary Surface

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Washington D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986

Mary Surface is a director and playwright whose productions have been featured at major professional theaters, museums, universities, and festivals throughout the US and abroad. Nominated for nine Helen Hayes Awards, she received the award in 2002 for Outstanding Director of a Musical. She is the recipient of the Charlotte Chorpenning Prize from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education for her outstanding body of work as a playwright.

Studios

Schelling

Mary Surface worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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