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Steve Lawson (1949 - 2023) was the director of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Writers in Performance” series, artistic director of City Center’s new “Act 4: Great American Plays in Concert” project, and executive director of the Williamstown Film Festival.
During his 2000 MacDowell Fellowship, Steve Lawson worked on the adaptation of his first novel into a screenplay, Nobody Laughed Last.
Portrait by Jessica Katz
Stephen Lawson worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…