April 11, 2005
Clark Symposium April 18 Presents Award-winning Writers
Readings, discussion part of innovative ‘Writing Out Loud’ course
WORCESTER, MA- Clark University welcomes four award-winning writers to this year’s Seymour N. Logan Symposium, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 18, at Razzo Hall in the Traina Center for the Arts. This free, public event features writers Eisa Davis, Mike Folie, Pat C. Hoy II and Todd London, who will read from their works. A question and answer period will follow the readings.
Eisa Davis's plays include ANGELA'S MIXTAPE, developed by New York Theatre Workshop and Hip Hop Theatre Festival, and PAPER ARMOR. Eisa has received fellowships from the Van Lier Foundation/New Dramatists, the Mellon Foundation, Cave Canem (a workshop/retreat for black poets), and was the MacDowell Colony's Thornton Wilder Fellow. In addition to her playwriting, Davis writes on Hip Hop Theatre. She will read from her new play, BULRUSHER. Davis is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, the nation's first and foremost center for the support and development of playwrights.
Mike Folie's plays have been produced often in the United States and internationally, winning several awards. The Adjustment was seen Off-Broadway at the 91st Street Playhouse, on tour in England, as well as several other venues. Folie is partner, along with Randall Eiger, in the freelance corporate speech writing team of EFI, Eiger and Folie.
Pat C. Hoy II received the 2003 Fellowship of Southern Writer's Nonfiction Award. His essays have appeared in Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni, Twentieth Century Literature, South Atlantic Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Eight of his essays have been selected as “Notables” in Best American Essays. Instinct for Survival: Essays by Pat C. Hoy II was selected as a “Notable” collection in Best American Essays of the Century, Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan. He directs the Expository Writing Program at New York University where he is a professor of English.
Todd London is in his ninth season as artistic director of New Dramatists. A former Managing Editor of American Theatre magazine, his essays and articles blending arts journalism and advocacy have appeared regularly in publications across the country and around the world. They've been translated for publication in Russia, North and South Africa, Scandinavia, and, most recently, Serbia. He has written, edited, and/or contributed to a dozen books, mostly theatre-related.
This event is made possible through the Seymour N. Logan Faculty Fellowship Fund. Todd Logan '75, a long-time Clark supporter, and his wife Linda established the Fellowship Fund in memory of Todd's father. The fund honors the contributions of professors at the University and allows faculty to create new courses and hold innovative conferences based on those courses. The fund is awarded every two years. Gino DiIorio, assistant professor of Visual & Performing Arts, and Anne Ellen Geller, director of the Writing Center/Writing Program, are the current co-recipients of the fellowship. They developed and co-teach the innovative course Writing Out Loud.
Writing Out Loud is a course designed to help student writers listen and consider how the application of spoken word and performance strategies can strengthen their written work.
For information contact DiIorio, at 508- 793-7456; gdiiorio@clarku.edu, or Geller, at 508-793-7469; angeller@clarku.edu.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. For over a decade, Clark has been recognized by Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges as the No. 1 institution in the United States for undergraduate study in geography.
Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
jsalerno@clarku.edu
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