Playwriting MFAs

[lavendercloud]

Ooh, good for you! I'm always too scared to ask. Anyone else hearing back from any other schools?

[roguesenna]

rougesenna, where did you get your MFA?

 

and wrighter, your username is phenomenal

 

Savannah College of Art and Design. I do not reccommend it. Especially not for playwrights. Maybe as a safety school for those who are more interested in screenwriting than playwriting. I will give it one thing, it wasn't hard to get in.

[mcw98]

Wrighter, re: Hunter.  I have a friend there who says they are happy, but that the program is definitely what you make it.  The other playwrights in the class have all had varied experiences, some of them negative.  Tina Howe is wonderful, but there has been some turnover - Mark Bly has left and Arthur Kopit is the interim head.  Also, it's a public college, so there is no money.  They do see a lot of shows and have had established playwrights visit (John Guare, Sarah Ruhl, etc.) and have alumni that are doing well.

[GlenwoodRed]

I suppose I should mention I'm a BFA candidate in Dramatic Writing at NYU, which is the same program at the MFA if anyone has any questions about it or anything!

[NickLondon]

Argh. E-mail from Maria Leveton. 

Not good news. Finalists for Yale have just been contacted... 

Anyone been contacted?

Edited February 25, 2014 by NickLondon

[GlenwoodRed]

Damn.

[lavendercloud]

Aww, that's too bad. Thanks for finding out - it's good to know, one way or the other.

 

Now if UCSD would just get back to me...

[mcw98]

What about Juilliard... anyone heard anything from them?

[lavendercloud]

I believe Juilliard makes decisions very late - June? - but I have no idea when they contact people. Personally, I don't plan to apply until post-MFA.

[Singsalot]

Argh. Really disappointed about Yale, but at least now we know. Thanks for reaching out NickLondon!

[wrighter]

Thanks for the updates everyone! I haven't heard anything from Yale.

 

I've applied to Juilliard before, and if I remember correctly, they don't do interviews until around May. 

 

Also thanks mcw98 for the info about Hunter. 

[GlenwoodRed]

Juilliard. Right right. Still have one app out there.

[mcw98]

P.S.  Thanks NickLondon for finding out...

[Starsandsound]

Nothing from Yale here, thanks nick. But hey- they take three out of two hundred and brown takes two so... Maybe life goes on?

[Starsandsound]

You guys we were so brave to apply! Also, I'm not out yet: still waiting on smith and Ohio and haven't heard from cmu( though thinking I'm out if they've done interviews) and haven't heard from northwestern yet either. Has anyone else?

[GlenwoodRed]

Anyone looking for a waiter in the New York area? Preferably playing around, well, enough that I could buy a Maserati Ghibli. That's not too much to ask as consolation, is it?

[wrighter]

Has anyone heard anything from NYU or Brooklyn? 

[roguesenna]

NYU decisions are running late on account of Funding stuff I think.

[cathergirl]

I have a playwrighting friend who just announced on twitter he got into brooklyn. Guess they have been in touch with people... Ahh havnt had any notices from any school yet

[Starsandsound]

Has anyone heard from North Western yet? I may have missed it...

[playbyplay]

Haven't heard from anyone except ETS who gave me a bullshit auto reply about how I could have just cancelled my GRE scores. For those of you just joining, during my GRE test the fire alarm was being 'tested' at least five times. 

[Starsandsound]

Does anyone have info about Arizona state? I just applied

[siroisplaywright]

This forum is so depressing. I'm glad to find out about Yale now rather than whenever they decide to destroy the hopes and dreams of the other 200 applicants 

 

You guys are awesome.

 

Juilliard in my experience sends out emails about the Labs right around now.

[Starsandsound]

This forum is so depressing. I'm glad to find out about Yale now rather than whenever they decide to destroy the hopes and dreams of the other 200 applicants

You guys are awesome.

Juilliard in my experience sends out emails about the Labs right around now.

Better to go through it with other people though. Rather than sitting in silence waiting for letters ha!

[wrighter]

Agreed! It is nice to commiserate. 

 

From my knowledge of Juilliard, they actually read scripts in batches, call people in for interview, read more scripts, call more people in, and so on. So don't fear if you don't get an interview right away, because there is a chance they haven't read your script yet. At least, that's how I believe they did it was last year. I'm not sure if they changed the policy for this year.

 

I had my skype interview with CMU. I really, really, really want to go there. Now I have my hopes up really high.

 

Advice for people with Columbia interviews: I spoke to my friend who is a student there now, and he said that when he went in they didn't ask him any questions, rather they just had him ask questions. He also said that though his interview seemed a normal length that some of his classmates' interviews were quite short and that isn't an indicator of anything because they still got in.