Reading by Next Williams Playwright-in-Residence

Professional actors will read excerpts from playwright Cheri Magid’s plays at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 31, in Gailor Auditorium. Magid will be the 2015–16 Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence at Sewanee. 

The actors will read from “The Tavern Wench,” in which a sailor falls for an erotica writer (but is he falling for her or the seduction of her stories?), and “The Chosen Ones,” in which a doctor of Chinese medicine is coerced into working as Heinrich Himmler’s private physician. Their sessions become a battle of wits and manipulation with the world stage in balance. The readings are for mature audiences only. A reception will follow the readings.

Magid was a 2013–14 Audrey Resident at New Georges, a 2014 Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and is a member of the Dorothy Strelsin Writers Group at Primary Stages. “Lydia, or the Girl at the Wheel,” Magid’s radio play about the earliest days of burlesque, aired on National Public Radio. 

Magid is currently the area head of undergraduate curriculum at New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program. 

This event is made possible by the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund and presented by the Sewanee English department.