Playwriting Residencies

Since 2002, the William Inge Center for the Arts has hosted outstanding playwrights as part of the Inge House Playwrights-in-Residence. To date, over 50 playwrights have lived in Independence for extended residencies at the William Inge Family Home. They each received a play development workshop of one of their scripts and distraction-free time for writing.

The residency hopes to provide the opportunity to develop a playwright’s new plays in the same surroundings that inspired young William Inge to his Pulitzer Prize winning work. 

The residency is supported in large part by a Projects for the Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Independence Community College and the William Inge Festival Foundation.

We are not accepting applications at this time.

The William Inge Center for the Arts at Independence Community College is best known for the annual William Inge Theater Festival, the Official Theater Festival of the State of Kansas, now in its 42nd season. During April 17-19, 2025 ICC will again celebrate an acclaimed playwrights as Honoree. For more information, visit our website at www.ingecenter.org or email info@ingecenter.org.

 Spring 2025 Playwright in Residence

Bruce Walsh

Bruce Walsh’s plays include Grown-Ass Louis, Berserker, and Prospect Hill.  Since receiving his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University in 2017, his work has been produced around the country, winning the Heideman Award, the Gary Garrison National Ten... Read more

Past Playwrights-in-residence

In alphabetical order.