Philip Dawkins playscript collection

Collection

Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawkins

Staff Only

Scope and Content of the Collection

Collection includes playscripts drafts and background notes. Playscripts include manuscript edits and sometimes feedback notes from others.

Dates

2004-approximately 2012

Creator

Dawkins, Philip (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The Philip Dawkins playscript collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Philip Dawkins playscript collection is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections at reference@newberry.org.

Biography of Philip Dawkins

Formerly Chicago based playwright and educator.

Dawkins’ plays include Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens Theater), Le Switch (About Face Theatre, The Jungle), The Homosexuals (About Face Theater), and Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches, the Musical with composer David Mallamud (Children’s Theater Company, Minneapolis), as well as many plays for young audiences and performers. He has taught playwriting at his alma mater, Loyola University, Chicago, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Victory Gardens Theater, the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and as a teaching artist of ten years in the Chicago Public Schools.