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Jonathan E. Mayer ’10 is hardly a normal college freshman—even at Harvard. Mayer was recently selected for his playwriting skills from over 200 entries as the winner of the 2006 VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Award, a 22-year-old national writing contest that promotes plays focused on the role of disability in society today...
...addition to receiving a monetary award, Mayer will have the honor of seeing his one-act drama, “Mistakes, Inc.,” produced at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Sporting a professional cast and director (Paul-Douglas Michnewicz), “Mistakes, Inc.” debuted yesterday...
...When I was seven or eight, I liked Star Wars,” he says. “So I wrote like a little page TV series that I’d enact with my brother and my dad.” In high school, Mayer began collaborating with his older brother on an as-yet-unpublished movie script “for fun” during summer vacations. Yet Mayer had no history of participation in formal playwriting competitions before entering the VSA Arts contest...
...ability was informed not so much by writing experience as it was by childhood experiences of illness. “When I was about five or six, I had severe asthma attacks,” he says. Despite his “near-fatal” condition—Mayer lost part of his lung during that period—he looks at his childhood of hospital visits and medical tests in a positive light, saying that it has spurred his interest in a medical career, possibly as a pulmonologist...
...asthma also provided ample creative material for Mayer. His experience of illness and storytelling ability collide in “Mistakes, Inc,” which centers around a fictional company that provides a mistake-erasing service to its customers. When a high school journalist begins to investigate the eccentric owner of Mistakes, Inc., the ensuing drama questions the necessity of erasing one’s mistakes and suggests the value of imperfection...