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October 2023

Les Bailey Writers Series

OlyFed is pleased to sponsor the Les Bailey Writers Series event at St. Martin’s University.

  • 11 Oct 2023 7:00pm

Worthington Center at Saint Martin's University

5000 Abbey Way SE
Lacey, WA 98503

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Writing your Story

This event will be held on Wednesday, October 11th, 7 p.m., Worthington Center. Event is free and open to the public. 

We hope you can join us for this year’s event featuring Bryan Willis.

Bryan Willis serves as Artistic Director for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance at Seattle Repertory Theatre. His plays have appeared throughout the U.K., China, Israel, Japan, Canada and U.S., including New York Theater Workshop, Milwaukee Rep, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Riverside Studios in London and Seattle’s ACT. Bryan’s work has also been featured on NPR and BBC Radio. He has worked in new play development in New York at Playwrights Horizons and later served in the literary department at Lincoln Center as NYU’s Playwright-in-Residence while completing his MFA in Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts. Bryan has had the honor of collaborating on plays, screenplays, radio plays and operas with Kenneth Lonergan, Jim Lynch, Peter Mountford (novel adaptation for German radio) and composer Timothy Brock. He received a gold medallion from the Kennedy Center, where he served on the National Selection Team for the American College Theatre Festival. He lives in Olympia with his amazing wife, Margo, at Willoughby, Significantly Close to the Sea.

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