Philip Dawkins playscript collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Collection includes playscripts drafts and background notes. Playscripts include manuscript edits and sometimes feedback notes from others.
Dates
- Creation: 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.
Extent
0.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Playscripts by Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins.
Organization
Materials are arranged alphabetically.
Collection Stack Location
1 13 1
Provenance
Gift, Todd Bauer, 2012.
Processed by
Catherine Grandgeorge, 2022.
- Title
- Philip Dawkins playscript collection, 2004-approximately 2012
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- ©2022.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org