Get Lit! Festival 2019

Join Get Lit! in beautiful Coeur d'Alene on the campus of North Idaho College to hear from local playwriting professionals. Susan Hardie has performed in and directed scores of productions throughout Spokane and the region for nearly forty years. Her collaborative work with playwright Bryan Harnetiaux and performer David Casteal in the original play York traveled extensively throughout the country and earned a City of Spokane Arts Award. Bryan Harnetiaux has been a Playwright-in-Residence at Spokane Civic Theatre in Spokane, Washington, since 1982. Thirteen of his plays have been published including stage adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Killers, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Long Walk to Forever. Sandra Hosking is a professional editor, writer, playwright, and photographer based in Spokane. Her plays have been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere. Hosking holds an M.F.A. in theatre/playwriting from the University of Idaho and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Eastern Washington University.
Kathleen Jeffs is Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at Gonzaga University. Jeffs completed her D.Phil. at the University of Oxford and lectured on Golden Age drama at Oxford and Cambridge, and taught drama at the University of Sussex. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Jonathan Johnson, author of three collections of poetry, most recently May Is An Island and two memoirs. Johnson is a professor at EWU and his play about John Keats and Fanny Brawne, Ode, premiered in 2013 as part of the Get Lit! Festival. Johnson is currently teaching a special graduate-level playwriting course at EWU. 

We would like to thank North Idaho College for their sponsorship.