Beginning Fall 2010, there will be no Showcase for you to participate in. Instead, you’re invited to present your work during a new reading series.

 Piggy-backing on MAPW alum Joellen Kubiak-Woodall’s reading series The Play Pen,the new series will be held 7:30-10pm on the first Tuesday of each month—October, November, and December for fall semester as well as February, March, and April for spring semester—at Johnnie McCracken's Pub, 15 Atlanta Street, Marietta, GA 30060  678-290-6641.

  If you’re interested in taking part in the new reading series, please do the following:

• sign up for one of the three dates for fall or spring semester by contacting Heather Cook,

  the series host,   at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , at least two weeks before the reading is scheduled to take place;

• give her a 100-150-word autobiography that she will read as your introduction; and

• limit your presentation to no more than ten minutes—including introduction—to present your work.

 If you decide not to take part in the reading series (and the decision is yours in consultation with your capstone committee), you have two other options. If your capstone is a script or screenplay, you’ll organize a dramatic reading of your plays or scripts. If your capstone takes some other form, you’ll take part in an oral defense. Both of these options are “public,” as is the new series. You may invite your families, friends, etc. to them.

 If you have any questions about the new procedure for presenting your work publicly, please don’t hesitate to contact me, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   office EB165   678-797-2039.