Stephen F. Austin State University

Visiting playwrights Staci Swedeen of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. (far left), William M. Hoffman of New York, N.Y., (center) and Richard Strahle of Fort Collins, Colo. (far right) take in the scenery at the C.R. Dion Ranch outside of Nacogdoches. The SFA Friends of Theatre hosted a reception there for the playwrights, all of whom were in town to see the SFA School of Theatre's rehearsed readings of their plays during the recent Festival of New American Plays. Pictured with the playwrights are Scott Shattuck, director of the SFA School of Theatre; Betty Ann Taylor, president of the Friends of Theatre; and Susan Cox, past president of the Friends of Theatre.