Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Mary Hazzard

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Waban, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1985, 1987, 2000

Mary Hazzard (1929-2015) sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Olivia Dwight. She was the author of four novels and numerous plays. A Yale Drama graduate, she received fellowships from the NEA, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Her 1999 novel Family Blood won the Ariadne Fiction Prize.

Studios

Schelling

Mary Hazzard worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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