Deborah Yarchun's guest appearances

Deborah Yarchun

Talking Theater

Beckett's Babies

Lynn Nottage

Isaac Butler

Samuel Beckett

Enda Walsh

Lauren Yee

Adam Szymkowicz

August Wilson

Martyna Majok

Clare Barron

Alan Arkin

Ilana Levine

Suzy Newman

Kevin Harris

Marc Smith

Lauren Gunderson

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Hello listeners! We are so excited for you to listen to this new episode of Beckett's Babies! We had an amazing conversation discussing all-things playwriting with fellow Iowa playwright DEBORAH YARCHUN!  Deborah Yarchun’s honors include two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, the 2020 Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting, an EST/Sloan Commission, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, and the Kernodle New Play Award. She’s been a playwright-in-residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts and a member of the Civilians’ R&amp;D Group. Deborah’s a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. GLISTENS: Sarah -  Andy Warhol's 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy Sam - Spaulding’s Rock Deborah - HBO’s Lovecraft Country To learn more about Deborah and her work, be sure to check out the following websites: Website: www.DeborahYarchun.com NPX page: https://newplayexchange.org/users/114/deborah-yarchun Be sure to check out Deborah's article "Staying Focused in the Time of COVID: 22 Tips and Strategies to Finding Focus" on the Playwright Center website: https://pwcenter.org/playwriting-toolkit/staying-focused-time-covid-22-tips-and-strategies-finding-focus Deborah also shared with us her favorite playwriting exercise.  Go to our website www.beckettsbabies.com to learn more! Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com

Hello listeners! We are so excited for you to listen to this new episode of Beckett's Babies! We had an amazing conversation discussing all-things playwriting with fellow Iowa playwright DEBORAH YARCHUN! Deborah Yarchun’s honors include two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, the 2020 Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting, an EST/Sloan Commission, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, and the Kernodle New Play Award. She’s been a playwright-in-residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts and a member of the Civilians’ R&amp;D Group. Deborah’s a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. GLISTENS: Sarah - Andy Warhol's 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy Sam - Spaulding’s Rock Deborah - HBO’s Lovecraft Country To learn more about Deborah and her work, be sure to check out the following websites: Website: <a href="http://www.DeborahYarchun.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.DeborahYarchun.com</a> NPX page: <a href="https://newplayexchange.org/users/114/deborah-yarchun" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newplayexchange.org/users/114/deborah-yarchun</a> Be sure to check out Deborah's article "Staying Focused in the Time of COVID: 22 Tips and Strategies to Finding Focus" on the Playwright Center website: <a href="https://pwcenter.org/playwriting-toolkit/staying-focused-time-covid-22-tips-and-strategies-finding-focus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pwcenter.org/playwriting-toolkit/staying-focused-time-covid-22-tips-and-strategies-finding-focus</a> Deborah also shared with us her favorite playwriting exercise. Go to our website <a href="http://www.beckettsbabies.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.beckettsbabies.com</a> to learn more! Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: <a href="http://www.beckettsbabies.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.beckettsbabies.com</a>

74. INTERVIEW: Deborah Yarchun

Deborah Yarchun is a New York City playwright from Austin, Texas. Her honors include two Jerome Fellowships, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award for The Man in the Sukkah, the Kernodle New Play Award for Tectonic Mélange, the Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award, and the Iowa Art Fellowship. Deborah's plays have been developed at places including Ensemble Studio Theatre, The New Harmony Project, Jewish Plays Project, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, TheatreSquared, and Williams Street Rep, where her new play, Bombers Moon will be produced next summer in July and August 2018. She is a 2017-2018 Dramatists Guild Fellow and the Fall 2017 Playwright-in-Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts. Deborah earned her Bachelor’s degree in screenwriting and playwriting at Drexel University and her MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa.   Deborah shares with Marc about spinning stories wildly out of various starting points and ideas, her writing process and attraction to intimate dramas, how aspiring writers can improve their craft, and her newest plays developed at the William Inge Center for the Arts and as a Dramatists Guild Fellow.

Deborah Yarchun is a New York City playwright from Austin, Texas. Her honors include two Jerome Fellowships, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award for <a href="http://web.kennedy-center.org/Education/KCACTF/awards/Playwriting/JKSmith" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Man in the Sukkah</a>, the Kernodle New Play Award for <a href="http://deborahyarchun.com/full-length-plays/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Tectonic Mélange</a>, the Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award, and the Iowa Art Fellowship. Deborah's plays have been developed at places including Ensemble Studio Theatre, The New Harmony Project, Jewish Plays Project, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, TheatreSquared, and <a href="http://wsrep.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Williams Street Rep</a>, where her new play, Bombers Moon will be produced next summer in July and August 2018. She is a 2017-2018 Dramatists Guild Fellow and the Fall 2017 Playwright-in-Residence at the <a href="http://ingecenter.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">William Inge Center for the Arts</a>. Deborah earned her Bachelor’s degree in screenwriting and playwriting at Drexel University and her MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa. Deborah shares with Marc about spinning stories wildly out of various starting points and ideas, her writing process and attraction to intimate dramas, how aspiring writers can improve their craft, and her newest plays developed at the William Inge Center for the Arts and as a Dramatists Guild Fellow.

20: Spinning Stories with Deborah Yarchun, Playwright