SANDRA SEATON

Dates at Hedgebrook
May 1997 (Owl Cottage) 

Genres
Playwright, Librettist, Academic/Critical Writing

Selected Publications and Productions

• A Bed Made in Heaven (play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson). East Lansing, MI. (January 2006)
• Reflections on the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Spoken Word performance with choral accompaniment. Wharton Center. East Lansing, MI. (January 2005).
• Sally (one-woman play). New York State Writers Institute. Albany, New York. (February 2003)
• Room and Board (play). East Lansing, MI. (May 2002).
• From the Diary of Sally Hemings (song cycle; libretto by Sandra Seaton). Premiered at Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress (March 2001).
• Do You Like Philip Roth? (play) East Lansing, MI. (May 2001)
• The Bridge Party (play) Michigan State University (January 2000)
• The Will (play). Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing, Michigan. (May 1999)

Honors, Awards and Acknowledgements

• Faculty Prague Summer Seminar (2005)
• Residency, Ragdale Colony (2006, 2004, 2002)
• Visiting Writer, Cranbrook Schools (2003)
• Visiting Writer, Writers Institute at SUNY Albany (2003)
• Residency, Yaddo Colony (2002)
• Consultant. Library of Congress. The work of artist Ollie Harrington, Berlin, Germany, 1995.
• Kellogg Foundation Research Grant, 1994-1995
• Theodore Ward Playwriting Prize for New Works by African- Americans, for The Bridge Party. Columbia College, Chicago. (1989)

Short Bio
Sandra Seaton is a playwright and librettist. Her plays have been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, and East Lansing. Her libretto for composer William Bolcom's song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemings has been sung in such venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, and Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. You can visit her website at http://www.grad.cmich.edu/seaton. 

Contact Information
sandra.c.seaton@cmich.edu