Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, December 06, 2001

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U. Penn student's Web site aids new writers
By Samantha Melamed, Daily Pennsylvanian (U. Pennsylvania)

(U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA -- Before last year, a banana harvester from Hawaii might never have believed that theater groups across the country would be producing the play he wrote. But they are, thanks to Playscripts.com, an online publishing company that has enlisted playwrights from Luxembourg, South Africa and Canada, as well as across the United States. University of Pennsylvania student Jon Rand and his older brother Doug started the company in March of 2000. Since then, they have been inundated with hundreds of submissions. There are currently about 45 plays available on the site, and the company has already sold the rights to those plays for nearly 500 different productions....

 



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