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Ashlin Halfnight
Ashlin Halfnight’s plays include Second Life (2012 O’Neill Playwright’s Conference Finalist), A Hard Wall at High Speed (Directed by May Adrales, APAC, Nominated for Outstanding Premiere Production of 2011, NYITA), Balaton (Nominated for Best Play of 2009, NYITA), Good Pictures (Outstanding New Play – 2008 Talkin’ Broadway), God’s Waiting Room (Best Play, 2005 NYFringe), Diving Normal (Plays and Playwrights 2007), and Artifacts of Consequence. He is a Fulbright Award winner, is the recipient of a TCG Grant, The Ludwig Volgelstein Artist Grant, and the Howard Stein Playwriting Fellowship. In 2011, he was named one of nytheatre.com’s People of the Year for exceptional contributions to New York theater. He was an artist in residence at the National Theater of Hungary in 2005/2006, and received a New York residency with The Royal Court; he is also a proud member of MCC’s Playwrights’ Coalition, and a Resident Playwright at the Railroad Playhouse. Ashlin received a BA from Harvard and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia; he has lectured, taught or been on faculty at St. Andrew’s College, The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, The Studio New York, The Actor’s Studio, and at Brooklyn College’s MFA program. His plays have been translated and performed in Canada, The US, and Europe. His film Diving Normal (with Sandra Bernhard, Susie Abromeit, Tonye Patano) wrapped in the summer of 2012, and his upcoming films include Northbound (with Gordon Pinsent), Astraea, and Survival Box. In August of 2012, he workshopped a new play called Eighteen Down, based on the Hephaestus myth, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.