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Former Student Brenton Lengel '02 Speaks on Being a Playwright
Former Woodberry Forest School student Brenton Lengel '02 visited campus Monday to speak with students about his career as a playwright.
“I knew early on I wanted a career in the arts, and I originally thought that would be as an actor,” he told students in Brent Cirves’s introduction to drama class Monday. “I attended the University of Kentucky and in my senior year wrote a play after I realized I wanted to set my own creative vision rather than execute someone else’s vision.”
Brenton's first play, Trojan Men, was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2010 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Today Brenton serves as playwright in residence for State of Play Productions, the same theater company that produced North to Maine, a play based on many of his experiences while hiking the 2,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
Brenton attended Woodberry Forest for the 1999-2000 school year, acting in productions of Dracula and Cabaret. He says his participation in those shows inspired him to pursue a career in the arts.
Brenton met with drama, speech, and English students during his visit. Students in several of the classes had recently read parts of North to Maine and Snow White Zombie.
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