Guest Artists

Arthur Kopit was the seventh Jonathan R. Reynolds Playwright-in-Residence, spending a semester at Denison in the spring of 2008.  His new play "Discovery of America" was developed and presented as a staged reading during his residency.  He is the author of: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad; Indians (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); Wings (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); a new translation of Ibsen's Ghosts; the book for the musical Nine (Tony Award for Best Musical, 1982, and Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, 2003); End of the World with Symposium to Follow; the book for the musical Phantom; the book for the musical High Society; Road to Nirvana; BecauseHeCan (originally entitled Y2K); Chad Curtiss, Lost Again, and numerous one act plays. Besides Discovery of America, his current projects include a film version of Nine, to be directed by Rob Marshall, and two new plays, both about memory, one called Autumn Light, the other with the working title, The Incurables, as well as a new musical, Eureka!, about crazy inventors at the turn of the century (19^th to 20^th, not 20^th to 21^st). Mr. Kopit has taught playwriting at NYU, Wesleyan University, Hunter College, Yale Drama School, Yale College, Columbia University, Harvard, and Princeton, and, for the past six years, has headed the Playwrights’ Workshop at the Lark Play Development Center in New York. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.