The award-winning play A Maze, by PDS graduate Rob Handel, showed on the Powerhouse Mainstage July 20 – 31.  All members of the PDS community were invited to a special reception and performance. Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres were served and attendees had an opportunity to meet Rob Handel.

Rob Handel ‘86 was the featured speaker at Poughkeepsie Day School’s Class of 2011 Commencement in June. He is a founding member of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which has won two Obie Awards, and heads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. His plays Millicent Scowlworthy and Aphrodisiac are published by Samuel French. Honors include a 2007 Helen Merrill Award and the 2010 Whitfield Cook Award for A Maze, which will be produced this summer by New York Stage and Film at the Powerhouse Theater. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he taught at The New School, Purchase College, and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A graduate of Williams College, with an MFA from Brown University, he is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.

Read this recent article published in the Poughkeepsie Journal about A Maze.