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At MacDowell, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig worked on revising her play Lidless, which received the 2009 Yale Drama Series Prize and had a staged reading at Yale Rep. She also worked on a novel and thought about her next play.
Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Lidless (Play)
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…