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...Creative Writing department, is known for dishing on everything from organ transplantation, to the move from “the land Down Under,” to the secrets to writing a really great play. This year, Evans is teaching playwriting and screenwriting to beginners and advanced students. FM, for its part, decided to get some tips from this script aficionado for its work in progress, “Waiting for Gilpin...
...FIFTEEN MINUTES (FM): You have written five plays, one of which is currently being produced. Which one is your favorite...
...FM: What is your favorite play that you have ever read...
...FM: Which playwright has been most influential on your work? CME: Paula Vogel is my teacher and ran the MFA Playwriting Program at Brown, and then I guess Sarah Kane and Caryl Churchill. So many people. Though I have to say Shakespeare, of course. Beckett, and I think Maria Irene Fornes too, and I include her because her work has nourished an amazing flowering of the Latino theater...
...FM: What are you working on right now? CME: There is a new, baby play that I have just started. The working title is “Organ Failure” and it is a play about the international black market in organ transplantation. But I want to mix it up with fairy tales about lost and transformed body parts. That’s kind of all I can tell you about that at the moment...