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MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation

Richard SchotterRichard Schotter

Klapper 705, 718-997-4715
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Richard Schotter’s full-length plays--Medicine Show, Benya the King, The Wood Dancer, Taking Stock and The Sussman Variations-- have been performed in New York, around the U.S. and in Europe. An opera based on The Wood Dancer  (music by Jerome Hughes) was performed at Next Move Theatre in New York in 1996. He has been an “Obie” Award nominee and received a CAPS grant and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Berman Playwriting Award (for Benya the King). In addition to his work as a playwright, he is a lyricist and an alumnus of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop where his short musical, Duet for Shy People (Music by Michael Kosarin), was first performed in 1993. Duet for Shy People has since been performed at the Westside Theatre in New York, the 1999 Boston Theatre Marathon and the Williamstown Theatre Festival; it was a winner of the ETC Orlando’s 1994 “Spring Sing” competition. His short plays, The Duke, The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Spot and The River have been performed at the Boston Theatre Marathon and at regional theatres across the country. With composer Michael Kosarin he has written a musical of Anne of Green Gables Mr. Schotter has written lyrics for the PBS children’s series, The Puzzle Place and co-authored with his wife, Roni, the children’s book, There’s a Dragon About:  A Winter’s Revel. He holds a PhD in Dramatic Literature from Columbia University and has been a Fulbright Scholar, an editor of The Drama Review, Literary Manager of the American Place Theatre and a Playwright-in-Residence at the Jewish Repertory Theatre.  In addition to being Professor of English at Queens College he has been, for the past ten years, Visiting Professor of Playwriting at Boston University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program.

  
 

 Office Information

 
Nicole Cooley, MFA Director
Creative Writing and Literary Translation
Department of English
Office: Klapper 702
Phone: 718-997-4671
Email: nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu


Spring 2013 Reading Series

A Talk by Translator and Poet Mary Maxwell
Monday, February 25, 4:30 pm
Klapper Hall 708
Co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department

A Reading and Discussion by Poets and Translators Aliki Barnstone And Willis Barnstone
Monday, March 4, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

The Publishing Lowdown: A Roundtable
Tuesday, March 19, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

A Reading by Fiction Writer Siri Hustvedt
Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall
Co-sponsored by the English Department and Writing at Queens

The New Salon in Queens: A Reading By Poet Marie Howe
Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 pm
Campbell Dome
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America

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A Reading by Poet
Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Wednesday, May 8, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

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Writers-in-Residence Read New Work Inspired by the Armstrong Archives
Saturday, May 11, 1:00 pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum Garden, 34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY

Readings by the 2013 MFA Program Graduates
Thursday, May 30, 2 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

Readings will be followed by receptions and book signings. All events are free and open to the public.
 

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