Discipline: Literature

Lawrence Osgood

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1957
Lawrence Osgood is a novelist, playwright, and essayist with joint U.S./Canadian citizenship. He has had short stories, essays, and a major novel published in the U.S. and Canada, been a member of the playwrights’ committee at the Actors Studio in New York, has had plays published and produced in New York and regionally in the U.S., directed at theaters on both coasts, and has taught acting and playwriting at the University of Connecticut. He lived, traveled, and worked in the Canadian Arctic for 10 years, directing an Inuktitut revitalization language project for an Inuit organization, developing and producing Inuit children’s television programming, and kayaking several Arctic rivers, some of them in first descents.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Lawrence Osgood 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…

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