Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

John Yearley

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Bryn Mawr, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2007

John Yearley is the author of The Unrepeatable Moment, which the New York Times called “thought provoking…exhilarating…painfully hilarious.” He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild, and holds a M.F.A. in playwriting from Temple University.

Other works include Leap (Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Ephemera (John Gassner Award), Another Girl (PlayPenn), and Bruno Hauptmann Kissed My Forehead (Abingdon Theatre). His latest play, Eight Minutes, Twenty Seconds, was workshopped by LABryinth Theatre Company and performed at Temple University.

Work for young audiences include The Last Wish (Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences) and an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Short plays All in Little Pieces and A Low-Lying Fog are available through Samuel French.

He currently writes for the children’s TV program “Treasure Trekkers” and has worked previously on PBS Kids’ “Arthur” and as a “script doctor” for New Line Cinema.

Studios

Barnard

John Yearley worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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