
Guest Artists & Scholars
Each year we bring professional artists and scholars to Iowa City to work on productions, lead workshops and teach classes. Some are in residence for a few days, others for a full semester. Here is a list of some of those who joined us recently.
2022-23
Kevin Augustine: Puppet Artist with Lone Wolf Tribe
John Baker: University of Iowa Theatre Arts Alumni, Professional Dramaturg and Artistic Director at Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency
Rick Cleveland: University of Iowa Alumni and Emmy Award winning writer and producer
Heidi Griffiths: Casting Director at the Public Theater
Sam Hunter: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop Alumni, award-winning playwright and screenwriter
Lisa McNulty: Producing Artistic Director of WP Theater
Emily Morse: Artistic Director of New Dramatists
Welker White: Actor and founder of “The Moving Image”
2021-22
Noel Allain: Founding Artistic Director of The Bushwick Starr Theater
John Baker: University of Iowa Alumni, Professional Dramaturg and Artistic Director at Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency
Kia Corthron: Award winning Playwright, activist, television writer, and novelist
Migdalia Cruz: Award winning Playwright of plays, musical theatre and opera, translator, librettist and lyricist.
Cat Fillioux: An award-winning playwright who has been writing about human rights and social justice for over twenty-five years
Katie Gamelli: Literary Agent at Paladin Artists
Michael Garces: Director and Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater
Virginia Grise: Award winning playwright and director.
Sydne Mahone: Professional Dramaturg, playwright, editor, writer
Robert O’Hara: Award winning Playwright and Director
Jen Silverman: University of Iowa Alumni and award-winning Playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter.
Marie Striar: Artistic Director of Clubbed Thumb
Caridad Svich: Award winning Playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor
Jeanette Yew: Award winning Lighting Designer
2018-19
Joniece Abbott-Pratt: Actress and writer, most recently starred in Marvel's Luke Cage and CBS series The Good Fight
Elissa Adams: Dramaturg, Associate Artistic Director at Theater Latte Da
Noel Allain: Founding Artistic Director of The Bushwick Starr Theater
Kinan Azmeh: Composer
Len Berkman: Playwright, dramaturg, and Anne Hesseltine Hoyt Professor of Theatre, Smith College
Mitch Burgess: Award-winning TV writer and producer, executive producer and writer for HBO's The Sopranos and CBS drama Blue Bloods
Jade King Carroll: Director of Intimate Apparel and The Piano Lesson (McCarter)
Layale Chaker: Violinist and performer
Sam Chanse: Writer, author of Trigger, The Opportunities of Extinction, and Fruiting Bodies
Stan Crocker: Three-time Emmy nominated lighting designer and director of photography for multi-camera live concerts and television shows; recent projects include annual iTunes/Apple Musical Festivals in London (2010-2016)
Rinde Eckert: New York-based writer, librettist, composer, performer; Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 2007
Andrea Fisher: Musician and producer; founder of Fluterscooter flute bags
Madeleine George: Playwright and author
Robin Green: Award-winning TV writer and producer, executive producer and writer for HBO's The Sopranos and CBS drama Blue Bloods
Sarah Heyward: Writer and producer
Anton Jones: Artistic Director and CEO of CLIMB Theatre
David Kajganich: Screenwriter and producer, known for his television series The Terror
Sherry Kramer: Playwright and teacher, Bennington College, University of Texas-Austin, University of Iowa, and elsewhere
Mickle Maher: Playwright and director, co-founder of Theatre Oobleck
Joshua Miller: Writer and actor
Peter Nachtrieb: Playwright; Peter's works include The Totalitarians and boom
Irina Patkanian: Filmmaker
Matthew Ragan: Associate Director for Software at Obscura Ditigal; media master and interactive systems designer
Paul Rust: Actor and writer of Netflix series Love
Christine Scarfuto: Literary Manager of Long Wharf Theatre, Curator and Producer for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival summer theatre lab HVSF2
Marion Schoevaert: Theatre director
Cori Thomas: Playwright and actress
Les Waters: theatre director; former artistic director for the Actors Theatre of Louisville
Amy Wegener: Literary Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville
Maggie Wheeler: Actress, known for her role as "Janice" on Friends
Vinnie Wilhelm: Writer, author of In the Absence of Predators and staff writer for television series The Terror
Connie Winston: Dramaturg and actress; her most recent project, American Captives: Lena Baker & Sandra Bland, premiered at Dixon Place in New York City in the fall of 2018