<p>"Eight Princeton undergraduates are spending the fall semester examining the plays of theater legend Edward Albee with a guest lecturer who is uniquely qualified to provide insights into the award-winning writer: Albee himself.</p>
<p>"The students are getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to listen to, laugh with and learn from one of the country's leading playwrights in "Albee on Albee," a course in the Program in Theater and Dance covering Albee's body of work, which spans five decades. </p>
<p>"We're getting inside his head," said Kelvin Dinkins, a junior who is an aspiring playwright. "It's eye-opening."</p>
<p>"Albee, who has won three Tony Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes, is on campus as the first recipient of the Princeton University/McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship, funded by the Ford Foundation. In addition to talking to Albee about past hits such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "A Delicate Balance," the students in the class will get a front-row seat to the creative process involved in preparing for the world premiere of Albee's new play, "Me, Myself and I," which is opening at the Berlind Theatre on Jan. 11.</p>
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<p>Albee is one of the greatest playwrights of his generation and will be speaking to larger groups of students outside this very small class. Those in his class are lucky indeed.</p>
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