Solomon debuts as playwright-in-residence

As the University's first playwright-in-residence, Howard Marc Solomon, author of The Wild Man, leads a 10-week class in which students write their own one-act plays.

The students appearing in The Wild Man also are getting a true picture of the evolution of a new drama as the play goes through rehearsals and rewrites. As of mid-November Solomon was still polishing and rewriting his script; new pages were sometimes brought to the actors right on stage.

The production of The Wild Man reunites Solomon with director Nigel Maister, who first met as graduate students in the theater program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Maister is in his third year as associate director of the University's International Theater Program.