Philip Dawkins is a Chicago playwright and educator. His plays include The Happiest Place on Earth (Side Show Theatre/Greenhouse Theater Center), Le Switch (About Face Theatre, The Jungle), Charm (Northlight Theatre), Miss Marx: Or The Involuntary Side Effect of Living (Strawdog Theatre), The Homosexuals (About Face Theater), and the musical adaptation of Dr.Seuss’s The Sneetches with composer David Mallamud (Children’s Theater Company, Minneapolis). His play Charm will receive its New York premiere at MCC in the fall of 2017. He teaches playwriting at Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago, and through the Victory Gardens ACCESS Program. At MacDowell, he completed rewrites of two new plays, The Burn (commission from Steppenwolf Theatre) and The Gentleman Caller (commission from Raven Theater). Dawkins also worked on a new play, a sequel to another nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work in 2011, completed a third of a new novel, and began a commissioned project for WBEZ in Chicago.
Philip Dawkins
Studios
Garland
Philip Dawkins worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…