Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Keelay Gipson

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Astoria, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017

Keelay Gipson used his time in residence to work on his new play #NewSlaves about the prison industrial complex. It went on to be a finalist for the Princess Grace, The O’Neill, and Seven Devils awards.

He is currently a New Dramatist Van Lier Fellow and a P73 Interstate Writer's Group Fellow.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

#NewSlaves (Play)

Studios

Mansfield

Keelay Gipson worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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