October 30, 2002
Contact: Leslee Caul (fax 509-963-1767/e-mail: caull@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - For the second year in a row, Josh
Schulz, a Central Washington University senior theatre arts performance
and theatre management major, has won Spotlight Playwriting Award at
the Theatre of Puget Sound’s Annual Expo. He received two of the four
awards presented this year.
The two plays are “Zonks,” the story of a divorced couple
fighting for custody of the family pet, a duck, and “This Is My Wife,”
a play about an African-American man trying to register his children
for school, only to find that the “quota” has been filled.
“The skills I have learned in the playwriting class, under
the direction of Wesley Van Tassel, have been invaluable to me,” says
Schulz. “I feel like I have a really strong foundation on which to
build my career.”
Schulz has had eight of his plays produced at the CWU Dr.
Betty Evans Original One-Act Festival and the 10-Minute Play Festival.
Central Theatre Company, the university’s theatre club, produced
another of his plays, “The Law of Relatives.”
An active theatre major, Schulz is co-founder and president
of Mayhem Central, a professional improvisational troupe, and is an
officer in the Central Theatre Company. Schulz has also appeared in
several CWU productions. His favorite roles include Milt in “Laughter
on the 23rd Floor,” Freddie in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” and, most
recently, Angus in “Macbeth.”
After a Christmas-time wedding and spring graduation, Schulz
plans to continue his playwriting career in Seattle. He is the son of
Keith and Carol Schulz of Mukilteo.
