MSU College of Law Announces Writer in Residence

Sandra Seaton, a playwright and librettist, will be the first writer in residence at Michigan State University College of Law.  Seaton's works include The Will, The Bridge Party, A Bed Made in Heaven, and A Chance Meeting, and the libretto for From the Diary of Sally Hemings in collaboration with composer William Bolcom.  During her residency, Seaton will be writing works dramatizing legal issues, including a play that focuses on African American students at a Midwestern university during the civil rights movement of the sixties. She will also conduct panel discussions and workshops examining the treatment of moral and legal issues in her own plays and other dramatic works. The project will be coordinated by Prof. Nicholas Mercuro, who teaches Law and Economics at the law school.