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...choicest selections of meat couldn’t be found in any dining hall or final club. Rather, that honor went to the Adams House Poole Theater, the venue of choice for Meat: A Playwright’s Festival. The brainchild of co-producer and participant Maggie Lehrman ’03, the festival showcased diverse works of comedy and drama from 10 up-and-coming undergraduate playwrights...
...idea for Meat, which Lehrman claims “means whatever you want it to mean,” first occurred to the senior last May. As the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC)’s Experimental Theatre Coordinator, Lehrman is responsible for coordinating the organization’s show schedule. She thought of the idea for a playwright’s festival when she began thinking about how she could fill in potential holes in the schedule, like “at the very beginning of the year when people are wary of putting on a really complicated...
After brainstrorming the idea, Lehrman first e-mailed the HRDC general list to gauge interest, and afterwards she asked for writing samples from those interested. From that subsequent pool of writers, Lehrman then assembled the 13 playwrights that would eventually form the festival. Interestingly, she notes, “Only a few submitted plays for their sample; I got nonfiction, fiction and poetry too.” From that point on, the festival became much easier to organize. With its lack of complicated settings and sparse required tech work, the other important things the producers had to worry about were...
...Yale’s Lehrman Center named Stauffer the second place recipient of its prestigious Frederick Douglass Prize, honoring the most notable nonfiction book on slavery, resistance and abolitionism published in the past year...
...Lehrman Center, which is a part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, fosters research in all aspects of slavery and its destruction, according to Robert P. Forbes, the center’s associate director...