Jon is currently in his seventh year as the head of the MFA Playwriting Program at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Jon's students have won several national awards and received productions of their plays in New York, Baltimore, D.C., and Seattle. Information on the Playwriting Program at CUA may be found at http://drama.cua.edu/graduate/mfa-playwriting.cfm.
Current MFA thesis productions, both included in the Mainstage Season at CUA Drama, are THE LANGUAGE OF INFINITY by Rachel Barclay (November 2011) and ALIEN INVADERS by Frank DiSalvo (February 2012). Go here for tickets.
We are especially excited by the news that an unprecedented two out of five students (Bob Bartlett and Tim Guillot) have won slots in the 2011-2012 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, with readings of their plays to be performed at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City and in the Kendeda Festival at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, in February of 2012. More information on the Kendeda plays may be found here.
Below is a recent list of CUA Playwriting student and alumni accomplishments, which I will keep updating with regularity. For a complete list of accomplishments, beginning with my arrival at Catholic University in 2004, contact me directly. 
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MFA Playwriting Program, Student and Alumni Activities - Catholic University Drama
2012
Rachel Barclay:
Teaching Playwriting, Imagination Stage, Washington, DC
Bob Bartlett:
Performance of WHALES, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Program, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta
Performance of KANSAS, id theatre, NYC
Performance of KANSAS, First Draft, Washington, DC
Assistant Professor of Theater, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
Frank DiSalvo:
Production of ALIEN INVADERS, Catholic University of America
Teaching Playwriting, Imagination Stage, Washington, DC
Teri Gillmor:
Performance of BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Rebecca Gingrich-Jones:
Production of SHE SAID/SHE SAID, Bread & Water Theatre, Rochester, NY
Timothy Guillot:
Performance of WE FIGHT WE DIE, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Program, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta
Performance of WINTER'S TALE (Adaptation), American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Robert Montenegro:
Performance of BRIDE AND GROOM IN THE GRAVEYARD, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Stephen Spotswood:
Performance of COLD NOVEMBER LIGHT, Theatre J, DC
2011
Rachel Barclay:
Production of THE FIELD, Complete Theatre Company, NYC
Kennedy Center National JFK Scholarship
Production of THE LANGUAGE OF INFINITY, Catholic University of America
Performance of TREES ARE LIVING LEGACIES at JFK 50th Anniversary Celebration, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
Bob Bartlett:
Performance of WHALES, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Program, Lark Play Development Center, NYC
Performance of WHALES, DC Writers’ Showcase, National New Play Network, Kennedy Center
Performance of WHALES, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Performance of FALLOUT, Baltimore Playwrights Project
Performance of WHALES, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, ID
Runner-up, KCACTF Mark Twain Award for WHALES
Runner-up, KCACTF David Mark Cohen Award for WHALES
Finalist, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award for WHALES
Director of MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS, Quotidian Theatre Company, Bethesda, MD
Rebecca Gingrich-Jones:
Performances of UNFORGIVABLE, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2; Theatre J, Washington, DC
Production of SHE SAID/SHE SAID, Catholic University of America Production of THE FURIES, Active Cultures Theatre, Washington, DC
Reading of SHE SAID/SHE SAID at First Draft, Washington, DC
Finalist for Wordbridge Playwrights Laboratory
Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Play Competition, for SHE SAID/SHE SAID
Timothy Guillot:
Performance of WE FIGHT WE DIE, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Program, Lark Play Development Center, NYC
Performance of WE FIGHT WE DIE, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Program, Center Theatre Group with Fox Theatricals, Los Angeles
Production of INSURGENT SONATA, Capitol Fringe Festival, Washington, DC
Production of WE FIGHT WE DIE, Mead Theatre Lab Program, DC, funded by a Creative Communities Fund Grant
Performance of NOWHERE, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Performance of WE FIGHT WE DIE, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Production of REQUIEM: FOR THOSE WE HAVE LOST, Catholic University of America
KCACTF Musical Theatre Award for LISTEN TO ME
Finalist, Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award for WE FIGHT, WE DIE
3rd place in the Larry Neal Writer's Competition, for WE FIGHT WE DIE Audience Services Manager, Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
Company Member, Forum Theatre, Washington, DC
Deborah DeGeorge Harbin:
Production of RUR: REBOOT, Run of the Mill Theatre, Baltimore
Production of CHIQUITA, Double (XX) Fest, Stone Soup Theatre, Seattle
Production of HYPOCHONDRIA, Double (XX) Fest, Stone Soup Theatre, Seattle
Production of HELLO KITTY’S GOT CLAWS, Milligan College Festival of One Acts, TN (also directed)
Play Commission: FERTILE GROUND - Stories From Messiah College’s First 100 Years, Messiah College, PA
Playwriting Instructor, Milligan College Summer Arts Academy, TN
Steve Lewis:
Production of YOUTHTOPIA, Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD Production of TRUST FALL, Boston Theatre Marathon, Boston Playwrights Theatre
Teaching Writing for Young Playwrights' Theater, Arena Stage, Imagination Stage, Writopia Lab, and UMUC
Glenn Mas:
Theater Arts Program Coordinator of the Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines
Matthew Smith:
Production of PASTORAL SMUT, in the play anthology VARIATIONS ON CHAOS, Run of the Mill Theatre, Baltimore
Performance of HAPPY THE MAN, Run of the Mill Theatre, Baltimore
Emily Bentley Solomon:
Finalist, 2010 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition, for WHICH WAY IS NOT DEATH
Semi-Finalist, Nicholls Screenplay Fellowship, for WHICH WAY IS NOT DEATH
Stephen Spotswood:
Production of THE APOCALYPSE PROJECT, Mead Theatre Lab Program, funded by a Creative Communities Fund Grant
Production of A CRE@TION STORY FOR NAOMI, DC Arts Center
Production of THE RESURRECTIONIST KING, Active Cultures Theatre, Washington, DC
Performance of FISTFUL OF SAND, American College Theatre Festival, Region 2
Performance of THE AARONSVILLE WOMAN, Abingdon Theatre, NYC
Winner of the Christopher Brian Wolk Award, for THE AARONSVILLE WOMAN