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Agnes Scott Writers' Festival - Playwrite Jacqueline Goldinger

Award-winning playwright and Agnes Scott College alumna Jacqueline Goldinger ’00 will speak March 30 at 1 p.m. in the Winter Theatre, Dana Fine Arts Building for Agnes Scott’s 41st Annual Writers’ Festival, the oldest continuous literary event in Georgia.

The event is free and open to the public.

Goldfinger returns to Winter Theatre, one of her favorite haunts as a student and president of Blackfriars at Agnes Scott, to offer insights on playwriting and discuss her work. Her session will also feature current students performing monologues personally selected by the author for the Writers’ Festival.

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Goldfinger is a dramaturg and award-winning playwright from Tallahassee, Fla. She holds a M.F.A. in screen and television writing from the University of Southern California. Her plays include “Slip/Shot” (Nominee 2010 Weissberger Award, National NewBorn Festival, InterAct Theatre Company), “The Oath” (Off-Off Broadway Maieutic Theatre Works, Penobscot Theatre, Theatre Exile, Ion Theatre), “The Burning Season” (Winner National Plays for the 21st Century Competition, Philadelphia Dramatists Center, New Village Arts, Blank Theatre Company) and “the terrible girls” (New York International Fringe Festival, Moxie Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre Company). Her commissioned adaptations include “Little Women” (North Coast Repertory Theatre), “A Christmas Carol” (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and “The Ghost's Bargain” (Playscripts). Her works have been published by Playscripts, Smith & Krauss and Theatre Communications Group (forthcoming).

Held annually since 1972, Agnes Scott’s Writers’ Festival brings nationally acclaimed writers to campus in an atmosphere of community with student writers from the colleges and universities of Georgia. Past visiting writers to the festival include Eudora Welty, Julia Alvarez, Anita Desai, Junot Diaz, Suzan-Lori Parks, Percival Everett, Paul Muldoon, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, Michael S. Harper and Marsha Norman ’69x, H’05.

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