LRU Visiting Playwright-in-Residence to Speak to Hickory Community

The Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writers Series continues on Thursday, February 3, with LRU’s Visiting Playwright-in-Residence Amina McIntyre. McIntyre will speak at 7:00 pm in the Belk Centrum on campus. She has worked as an editor for the Infinite Field Magazine and is currently working as a playwright, freelance writer, and editor.

McIntyre is Lenoir-Rhyne University's first Visiting Playwright-in-Residence. While on campus she will be teaching an eight-week playwriting course for L-R students. This is an opportunity for students to write a 10-minute play with feedback provided by an accomplished writer.

In addition to productions of her short plays, Point of View and In Those Jeans, she has had a staged reading of her one-act Two Card Table and a Clothes Rack and a cold reading of her play Doin' The Work at the Indiana Theater Association ITWorks 2008, as well as poems in various publications. Her full-length play, Most Eligible Bachelor, was produced at Wabash College in April 2009.

A native of Atlanta, GA, McIntyre received a BA in Anthropology at Colby College, a MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University.