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William C. Kovacsik

William C. Kovacsik

Chair, Dramatic Writing
Tisch Asia

Phone: +65 6500-1763
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Office: Room 03-07

Biography

WILLIAM C. KOVACSIK holds a Bachelor of Arts from Drew University, as wellas a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law and an M.F.A. in Playwritingfrom Carnegie Mellon University. He was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon from1994-2001, teaching all undergraduate courses in Playwriting. He has also taught at Ball State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Mr. Kovacsik’s play The Masrayana was co-produced by the Prop Theatre and the Rasaka Theatre Company. The Masrayana received praise from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, and went on to win the Joseph Jefferson Award forBest New Play in Chicago, 2005-2006. Its Asian premiere was produced by TheOpen Stage in Summer 2010. His play Morisot Reclining, which details the stormy relationship between Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, was staged by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Companyin the spring of 2009. It was nominated for a Henry Award for Best New Play bythe Colorado Theatre Guild and an Ovation Award by the Denver Post. Morisot Reclining will be published during the winter of 2011 by Next Stage Press.

Mr. Kovacsik’s full-length play Scales of Justice was named Best Play at the 1999 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, where it was praised by critics from the Newark Star-Ledger and the Village Voice. Scales of Justice had its professional premiere at the Long Beach Playhouse, and was subsequently published by Playscripts, Inc.

Mr. Kovacsik’s script Pillar of Salt won an international playwriting prize offered by Hanover College and the Eli Lily Foundation for plays dealing with spirituality. His play Slice of Immortality has been presented as a reading by the Lark Theatre in New York, the Carnegie Mellon Summer Showcase of New Plays, and the Showcase of Western Plays co-produced by the Arvada Center and Red Rocks College in Denver. His script The Run of the River was named Best Play of the 1995 Pittsburgh NewWorks Festival by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. His short plays have been regularly performed at the Samuel French Short Play Festival and Pittsburgh NewWorks. His ten-minute plays A Mighty Fortress and Bringer of Light were producedby the Short & Sweet Festival in Singapore in 2009 and 2010, with both plays being performed in the Gala Finals.