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		David Muschell, Professor of English, teaches Scriptwriting, the Teaching Creative Writing Seminar, and other creative writing courses. He coordinates the undergraduate creative writing program and is the drama editor for Arts & Letters.
	At work in the office Read a feature about David’s teaching at GCSU	David Muschell’s plays have received over a dozen national and regional awards, including New York’s MultiStages New Play Festival, Buffalo’s Alleyway Theatre’s New Play Award, The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild’s Marilyn Hall Award, and the Southern Playwrights Competition.  His work has been produced by many theatre companies and university theatre departments, including Polaris North in New York, Colorado Christian University in Denver, and St. Thomas Moore College in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  In the summer of 2005, Muschell traveled to Jacksonville State University to see the production of his play Heroes, which won the Southern Playwrights Competition in 2004.  This summer (2006), he plans to return to Denver to see a production of Spoiling Prayers.
	Available from The Jesus Trip The Golden Nest Read On-line: Excerpt from The Jesus Trip “Shooting the Dog: A Play in One Act”	Thirteen of Muschell’s plays have been published, and his most widely produced, Mixed Emotions, has been seen in over twenty-three states, Canada, and Japan.  He has also written eight films for industry. In addition to plays and scripts, he has written two books about the origins of words: Where in the Word? and What in the Word? Muschell holds an MFA in playwriting from Goddard College.
	Read the full text on-line	“…characters literally take over the page, and I let them talk and fight and work things out. Of course, I’m very consciously involved in their conversations, crises, and conversions, but I also want to be surprised as I write. Where they go may be inevitable, but I don’t want it to be predictable.” –David Muschell, “On Writing” (from Critique Magazine)

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