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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 In high school, Mayer began collaborating with his older brother on an as-yet-unpublished movie script “for fun” during summer vacations.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...
...individual bracket, with Shore close behind in eleventh. The sophomore linked the slip in the standings to a few missed puts in the second and third rounds, as he posted a 78 and 76, respectively. Sophomore John Christensen shot a 243 to finish at No. 55, while Danny Mayer finished the tournament at No. 66 and Peter Singh and Hegge tied for No. 73 overall. The Crimson will look to move up in the standings in its remaining two tournaments: the ECAC Division I Championships in Charlestown, R.I. next weekend and the NEIGA Championships in Brewster, Mass. the following weekend...