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Columbus playwrights retreat Playwrights' Retreat - Columbus, Ohio - July 2004
Alan Woods, Director of the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute, The Ohio State University, organised a very successful and inspiring playwrights' summer retreat at the institute . Below are some photographs taken by Vicki Cheatwood and some first person accounts/reactions.

A number of the playwrights had never met before, but knew each other only from their emails to the ICWP-L email discussion List.

Colmbus retreat venue


Alan Woods writes:

It’s true that writers are blessed by whatever higher powers exist--the group of playwrights gathering
in Columbus in July proved that.

They cheerfully put up with construction, knots of soccer camp and other teens, uncertain hot water supplies, a persnickity printer, and a student movie being filmed around them--and turned out reams of material, writing at what looked like red hot heat and speed.

It was a privilege to host them, an honor to hear the work, and a pleasure to meet so
many listservers previously known only electronically. Onward!

From the left:

Alan Woods, Donna Spector, Vicki Cheatwood, Ludmilla Bollow,Paddy Gillard-Bentley, Farzana Moon, Geralyn Horton, Judith PrattLawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute

Alan Woods points the way.

Below:
In the classroom with (L to R) Kathy King, Mrinalini, Ludmilla Bollow, Farzana Moon

Playwright Retreat classroom 1


Below:
(L to R) Starting in the foreground - Back of Geralyn Horton's head, Judith Pratt, Linda Eisenstein,
Shirley Barrie (by the window), Kathy Burkmann, Kathy King (half-standing), Mrinalini Kamath, Ludmilla
Bollow, Donna Spector

2

Computer lab
Judith Pratt in the computer lab:


Judith Pratt writes:

This newbie loved it and learned and learned and learned from all the
great people there.

I also laid some ghosts from the time I lived in Columbus in the 70s...might be a play there.  AND got a much better draft of my current opus!

Can't thank you all enough. And for Alan Woods, thanks don't even begin to cover it.

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