GUEST CRITIC

We have been very fortunate to have had some excellent professional critics serve as Guest Critics for OCI. In the past few years, we have had Byron Woods from North Carolina, Andy Probst from New York City, and Christopher Rawson from Pittsburgh.

This year we are pleased to announce that Wendy Rosenfield, a theater reviewer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, will be joining us for a second time this year at festival. She also has a blog as the "Drama Queen at artsjournal.com. Here is a brief bio of Wendy Rosenfield:

Wendy Rosenfield is a freelance arts and lifestyle features writer and theater critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She was previously chief theater critic for the Philadelphia Weekly, where she also wrote a monthly column covering the area's theater scene. Her "Drama Queen" blog for ArtsJournal.com is an outgrowth of that column. She was chosen as a Fellow for the 2008 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at USC/Annenberg, and was a participant in the 1992 Bennington Writer's Workshop. She is a graduate of Bennington College, a wife, mother of two, vegan, occasional fiction writer, was proofreader to a swami (not a job she'd recommend), publications editor for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and a Brownie Girl Scout troop leader.

For more information about the National Critics Institute, contact:

Ralph Leary
Department of English
Clarion University
Clarion, PA  
16214
814-393-2533
E-mail: leary@clarion.edu