[CW-Grad] New MFA Introductions

[Marcus Renner]

Hi there,

I'm Marcus Renner writing from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland,
Oregon where I'm taking in a few productions. I'm originally from Pasadena
but have been living in Durango, Colorado for the past five years where I
ran the campus environmental center. Playwriting is my emphasis with fiction
writing as a second. I have two degrees in Environmental Studies the first
from Brown University and a masters from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Most of my work over the past decade has been doing community organizing on
a variety of issues. Before that was a lot of work with youth teaching them
to be subversive in a variety of ways.

I'm strong advocate of community-based art and last summer had an amazing
experience with L.A.-based Cornerstone Theater's summer residency program
that validated my plan to return to school for a writing degree. I'm really
looking forward to meeting everyone and supporting the development of
everyone's writing in workshop. Saw a wonderful play new play about
immigration issues yesterday called *American Night* by Richard Montoya and
Culture Clash -- hilarious, irreverent, and touching. Something to aspire
to.

All the best,

Marcus


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Yvette Doss <yvette.doss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, everyone. Yvette Doss checking in. I'm an L.A. native. UC Berkeley
> undergrad and grad school (Philosophy and Journalism, respectively). I'm
> seeing a trend here...
>
> I've worked as a magazine editor, indie newspaper publisher, NPR radio
> commentator, news reporter, etc. I firmly believe print media is not dead.
> It's just in a long, deep coma. Just wait for the next Y2K-ish scare. Same
> goes for fiction (the not-dead part, not the deep coma part). My emphasis is
> Fiction. Screenwriting is the other.
>
> Currently working for a charter school group in South L.A. helping
> low-income kids get into college, and trying my hardest not to become a
> Soccer Mom the rest of the time. (I'm kicking, I'm screaming.)
>
> I also like playing with metal. As Albert Goldbarth said, We're born, and
> everything after that is self-medication.
>
> Y
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Melissa Harkness <mhark001 at ucr.edu>wrote:
>
>> Attention all new MFA’s –
>>
>>
>> It has been brought to my attention by my fellow grad rep that we don’t
>> know many of the first years, and we would like to. So if you’re game, no
>> pressure here, please send an intro of yourself over the list serv. It can
>> be as simple as :
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, I’m Melissa Harkness. I’m originally from Memphis, TN, attended the
>> University of Memphis to get my BFA in Theatre, and I’m a second year
>> Playwright. In my spare time, I like jogging to Adam Lambert (no that is not
>> a joke) and watching the Big Bang Theory.
>>
>>
>>
>> So please, if you’re new, give us a shout out. We’d love to hear from you
>> in cyberspace before we meet you for real.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Melissa
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