Jack Gilhooley is a New Dramatists (NYC) alum., Eugene O’Neill Conference guest playwright, NYFTA grant recipient, and has had Fulbright Guest Artist appointments (Spain and Ireland). He has received four FLorida Arts Council grants, two NEA awards (Individual Playwright and International to Centaur Theatre, Montreal), two Puffin grants, and a John Ringling Fund Award. He has been a guest artist at Yaddo, MacDowell, Edward Albee, Millay, Djerassi, Hawthornden Castle (Scotland), and the Tyrone Guthrie Institute (Ireland). His plays have been performed at the NY Shakespeare Fest., Circle Rep, Phoenix, 59e59, Shubert (Philadelphia), ACT/SF, Asolo, Indiana Rep (twice), and The Folger (D.C.).
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
John Gilhooley
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Sarasota, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
Studios
Wood
John Gilhooley worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…