First Run Theatre Playwrites: George Hickenlooper

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George Hickenlooper Sr.

Professor Hickenlooper (English, Lindenwood University) has his Doctor of Fine Arts in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature from Yale University as well as an M.A. in German (Washington University) and a B.S in International Affairs, Languages, and Literature (Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service). He has held a number of teaching positions in high schools, colleges, and universities, including Washington University where he where he served as/taught as Playwright-in-Residence.

He also held fellowships from the Midwest Playwrights' Conference; NEH Summer Seminar, Yale University; NEH Summer Seminar, University of Iowa; the Squaw Valley Writers' Conference Fellowship, the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, and Konrad Adenauer Exchange Student Fellowship.

Professor Hickenlooper has received awards for many of his plays, including:

• All for His Own Good, winner, Buckham Alley Theatre's Tenth Annual Playwrights' Forum, produced by Buckham Alley Theatre, Flint, Michigan; Missouri Association of Playwrights; winner, Playwright of the Year Award

• Evil Hour, Equity mini-showcase, Love Creek Productions Annual Short Play A NEW START, award-winner at Russell Sharp drama fair, produced by Webster Groves Theatre Guild, Saint Louis

• A Thief in the Night, award-winner at Russell Sharp drama fair, produced by Webster Groves Theatre Guild, Saint Louis

• Crusade, Prize winner, Saint Louis Playwrights' Festival; staged reading at Saint Louis Community College, Forest Park; First Prize, Riverdale Contemporary Theatre National Playwriting Conetest, won New Play of the Year Award, Southeastern Theatre Conference; staged reading in Birmingham, Alabama; published in Southern Theatre

• Nature's Gentlemen, Second Prize, Missouri Arts Council Playwriting Contest; $3,500 award and production at Saint Louis Community College, Florissant Valley; published in A Missouri Playwrights' Anthology

• Caviar for the General First Prize, New England Theatre Conference; staged reading at Northeastern University, Boston, production at Yale University School of Drama; Published in Baker's Plays

• The Wave, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Award; Staged reading at the Théâtre du Vieux Carré, New Orleans

His other plays include:

• Flights of Angels, staged reading, Missouri Association of Playwrights

• Streetcar Scenes, performed weekends at the Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, as part of the Saint Louis in the Gilded Age exhibit, produced by the Historyonics Theatre Company. Written on commission for the Missouri Historical Society

• Wordsworth, West End Players Guild, Saint Louis

• The Most Beautiful Kite in the World, West End Players Guild, Saint Louis

• Dark Star, Lindenwood College, Saint Charles, MO

• Sir Roger Casement, Traitor; produced by RCT in Riverdale, The Bronx, New York; broadcast on Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, California; staged reading at the Berkeley Stage Company

• Everybody Calls Me Dolfi (satirical fantasy)

Professor Hickenlooper is a member in good standing of the Dramatists Guild and the Missouri Association of Playwrights.

Among the many courses he has taught, Professor Hickenlooper teaches Creative Writing, Modern Drama, Drama and Literature into Film, Seminars in Writing, Playwriting, Composition, Expository Writing, and Russian. Yes, Russian. When most of us are lucky to get alone in English, he is proficient in German, French, Russian, Dutch/Flemish, Italian, and Spanish (in that order).