William Inge Festival and Conference 2022
The 39th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference, April 21-23, 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on the films and plays of William Inge, and/or the works of our 2022 honoree Lynn Nottage, designed for a 20-minute oral presentation at the conference. A wide variety of perspectives and themes are encouraged. Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be deposited in the William Inge Collection at Independence Community College, the major repository of Inge manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia. An online archive of papers is also currently under development.
The William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference is in its fourth decade of honoring major living playwrights through a wide range of performances, readings, seminars, workshops, lectures, panel discussions and historical activities. For three days this year, the small city of Independence, Kansas, becomes the theatrical center of the universe, with visits from some of the nation’s finest playwrights, directors, actors and theatre practitioners, who all meet to honor a distinguished playwright in a playwright’s town. The 39th Annual festival will be held April 21-23, 2022.
Past recipients are: Edward Albee, Robert Anderson, Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, Carlyle Brown, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, Christopher Durang, Horton Foote, William Gibson, John Guare, A. R. Gurney, Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt, John Kander & Fred Ebb, Garson Kanin, Sidney Kingsley, Robert E. Lee, Arthur Kopit, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Lawrence, Romulus Linney, Terrence McNally, Arthur Miller, Marsha Norman, Octavio Solis, John Patrick, Sir Peter Shaffer, Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Paula Vogel, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson. We are proud to add Lynn Nottage to this list of Honorees.
Persons interested in submitting a paper should submit a copy (maximum of twenty-minutes reading time and designed for oral presentation to a general audience,) or a substantial abstract with title, by January 28th, 2022; early submissions are encouraged. Please email to Jackson Bryer, Scholar’s Conference Director at jbryer@umd.edu and copy info@ingecenter.org