Play Produced in New York City Comes Back to Adrian College posted 9/14/09
"Writer's Block" written by Shaun Gunning ’94 back on campus after 15 years

ADRIAN, Mich. – Adrian College Theatre celebrates the sesquicentennial and homecoming by presenting a play written by Adrian College alumnus Shaun Gunning '94. The theatre department will perfrom Gunning’s play “Writer’s Block” at homecoming, Sept. 24-26, 2009.

A one-act version of the play was originally presented on campus in 1992 and this full length version premiered at the Mid-Town Manhattan International Theatre Festival in the summer of 2008.

Gunning had originally started to write the play in Professor Michael Allen’s playwriting class at Adrian College 15 years ago. He kept working on it throughout the years and finished it in 2007.

This comedy is about a playwright who can’t seem to get started on his next play. As his agent pressures him to meet his deadlines and he sits at the typewriter to start exploring ideas, those thoughts begin to come to life on the stage.

Gunning held a reading of the script in February 2008. A friend of his who is a producer was at the reading and suggested that Gunning submit the play to the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York. It was accepted and performed in NYC last summer.

Gunning graduated from Adrian in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Theatre and Religion.

The performances of "Writer's Block" are scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 24 at 8 P.M., Friday, Sept. 25 at 8 P.M., and Saturday, Sept. 26 at 2 P.M. For this special homecoming event, all seats will be $5.00 each. Downs Hall is located off S. Madison St. on the College campus. Further information may be obtained by calling Professor Michael Allen at (517) 264-3922.