Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Daphne Silbiger

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2023

Daphne Silbiger is a playwright and musician whose work includes plays Six Years Old and Pound (a Relentless Award Semi-Finalist), as well as music written and performed with the band Go Home.

She worked on two plays at MacDowell. The first takes cues from the Grand-Guignol, and the second focuses on three women irreparably lost in the wilderness.

Studios

Calderwood

Daphne Silbiger worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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