Award-winning playwright D.W. Gregory will teach two playwriting workshops at the International Thespian Festival at Indiana University-Bloomington, June 21-26.

She will teach Cracking the Ten-Minute Play – Strategies for Writing and Teaching the Short Form on June 22 and The Well-Developed Scene: Getting Inside Your Character, on June 23.

“I’m thrilled to be going back to ITF,” Gregory said. “I’ve been continually amazed by the talent and dedication of the students I’ve met there. Some of the performances I’ve seen at the festival rival anything you’d find on professional stages.”

Gregory is best known for her drama Radium Girls (Dramatic Publishing), which has received nearly 3,000 productions around the U.S. and abroad and is among the ten most produced plays in U.S. high schools. In 2025, Playbill magazine listed it among the 20 most produced plays in the U.S.

She is also the author of other works for high school actors, including Salvation Road and Penny Candy, both published by Dramatic Publishing, and for middle schools, Secret Lives of Toads (Dramatic Publishing) and Miracle in Mudville, from YouthPLAYS.com.

The International Thespian festival is a theatre conference for members of the International Thespian Society,  a theatre honor society for middle and high school students in the United States and Canada. Held annually since 1941, the festival hosts more than 4,500 participants.

With a focus on performance, technical theatre, and education, the festival includes full-length high school productions on the Main Stage  as well as workshops led by industry professionals. Past presenters have included composer Stephen Schwartz and actress-writer Shaina Taub, author of Suffs.

The festival is  produced by the Educational Theatre Association, which is the parent organization of the International Thespian Society. Held on the Indiana University campus, it will move to Louisville, Kentucky, in 2027 to accommodate growth to more than 5,000 attendees.