New School for Drama playwright Paul David Young (’09) has been selected for an artist residency at the Millay Art Colony in the Berkshires in Austerlitz, New York. The Millay Colony selects six artists from a variety of disciplines to reside for a month on their seven-acre campus. Artists are given the opportunity to work on their individual projects with organizational support and also receive room, board, and private studio work-space.

In 1973 Norma Millay Ellis, sister of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, founded the Millay Colony for the Arts as a residency center for visual artists, writers, and composers. The first artists arrived in 1974 and lived and worked in a small building on the Millay estate. In 1976, a barn was soon renovated to accommodate resident artists, providing an inspiring and tranquil home with studios looking out on the estate’s meadows and forest. In addition to the residency program, the colony also has a workshop series, with five-day workshop-retreats in various topics such as writing, visual art, video-making, and even canning your own food.

Visit www.millaycolony.org  for more information.