Posted on Monday, November 7, 2005
F.J. Hartland, playwright and 1980 ¾¨Ó㴫ý graduate, will speak at the Bleasby Colloquium Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"Hartland is an award-winning playwright with plays produced and work-shopped in Off and Off-Off-Broadway in New York and Pittsburgh," said Dr. Andrew Ade, assistant professor of English at ¾¨Ó㴫ý and coordinator of this event. "Two of his plays have been published by Samuel French. His latest play, 'Postcards from a Dead Dog,' won the top prize at the 2005 Pittsburgh New Works Festival, an annual showcase of new plays that has produced his works in each of the last seven years. Hartland is also director of theater arts and associate professor of English at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson."
This colloquium is the second in a series of events scheduled for the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at ¾¨Ó㴫ý from 1954-75.
Contact Ade at (724) 946-7349 or e-mail adeaw@westminster.edu for more information.
