<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica">Subject: Western Michigan University Prague Summer Program in Playwriting, July 2011</div><div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica">
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<div class="MsoNormal">Dear Playwriting Friends and Theatre Colleagues:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I am writing to inform you and/or your students about the special opportunities open to all playwriting students and emerging and professional playwrights in Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program in Creative Writing. My WMU colleague, Richard Katrovas, is the founding director of the program, and I am currently one of the playwriting teachers in the Prague playwriting program.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Prague program has always been unique in being one of the few summer creative writing programs to include playwriting among its offerings. Recent sessions have featured the playwrights Charles Smith, Jeremy Dobrish, Claudia Barnett, Gaylord Brewer, Sandra Seaton, Arnold Johnston and Deborah Ann Percy, and screenwriters Arnost Lustig, Sean Clark and Robert Eversz among its distinguished faculty.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Arnold, Deborah and I are leading the 2011 PSP playwriting workshop this July. Detailed program information and faculty biographies are available at <a href="http://www.praguesummer.com/" target="_blank">www.praguesummer.com</a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In addition, the PSP issues many John Woods Scholarships worth up to $1,000 off of a four-week, two-course enrollment. An easy-to-use online application is also accessible at the PSP website.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The class will feature workshops, staged readings and special guests</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">And, of course, studying playwriting in Prague is always a very inspiring experience with the city's remarkable theatrical and cinematic traditions and a multitude of shows to see, including new experimental work and Shakespeare in Czech at the Prague Castle. During the 2006 session of the program, WMU awarded an honorary doctorate in playwriting to former Czech President and playwright Vaclav Havel at Charles University’s stately Carolinum.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We appreciate your assistance in sharing with your students and playwriting friends this unique and exciting opportunity. Please call or email me with any questions you or your students might have at <a href="mailto:steve.feffer@wmich.edu">steve.feffer@wmich.edu</a> or 269-387-2629 or contact the Prague Summer Program directly at <a href="mailto:prague@wmich.edu">prague@wmich.edu</a>.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sincerely yours,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Steve Feffer</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; ">Dr. Steve Feffer</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Associate Professor, Undergraduate, MFA, and Ph.D. Playwriting</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Coordinator, Creative Writing Program</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Chair, National Playwriting Program, Kennedy Center America College Theatre Festival 3<br>
Western Michigan University<br>
Sprau #909<br>
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331<br>
269-387-2629, <a href="mailto:steve.feffer@wmich.edu">steve.feffer@wmich.edu</a></span></div>
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