![]() RE: So did you get to meet Lin-Manuel Miranda during the final stages?ĪT: I‘m still hoping to meet him, oh my God. (Tjeltveit added via email that in the final play she decided to put Persephone in a bright yellow crop top, but the Birkenstocks were still intact.) She has a thing for tote bags with vegetable puns on them that say things like “Kale yeah, I’m a vegan!” And she starts trying to get Hades out of his depression. So then I naturally sort of thought, well the god of death is Hades, which shifted into Hades and Persephone.Īnd then I had this idea about Persephone being this Carleton sweater and Birkenstock-wearing Instagram celebrity. So I was thinking about the Grimm Reaper and dehumanizing death, but it’s hard to separate associations (that exist) that are going to make people laugh. I’m stuck interning with the Grimm Reaper all summer. I had this sentence stuck in my head: “My friend got an internship with Google. RE: How’d you even start to come up with that?ĪT: In August I started to make a list of possible story ideas for the “Hamilton” contest and I kept playing around with this idea of the Grimm Reaper. She visits the underworld to help Hades, who’s depressed, to get out of his funk. RE: Can you explain what your play (“Five Steps”) is about? It was inspired by Greek mythology, right?ĪT: The way that I’ve been describing it to my friends is that Persephone is an Instagram self-care guru with a foolproof five-step process to improve your life. I’d been working on this longform short story that just wasn’t working and decided to stop freaking out about it and just have fun. This play was sort of a “Hail Mary” that I came up with 15 days before the deadline. I found out I got into Wesleyan in February. 1, and that was was also the due date for the “Hamilton” contest entry. RE: What was the application process like for the contest?ĪT: I applied to Wesleyan through early decision, which was due Jan. Wesleyan promotes it pretty heavily for applicants, and the president at Wesleyan called around 4 on Wednesday to tell me I’d won. Tjeltveit is thrilled at the idea of potentially staging her winning one-act play, “Five Steps,” someday, a possibility she hadn’t even considered when she submitted it.ĪT: This is the third year for the contest, but they just added two honorable mention prizes. She hasn’t really considered playwriting as a career but when asked responded, “Maybe!” and added that she usually writes “longform prose.” ![]() The grand prize is a full-tuition scholarship to Wesleyan, where she plans to major in English with a focus on creative writing. Here’s an Allentown kid who certainly didn’t throw away her shot.Įarlier this week, the most famous man in musical theater at the moment – Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created and starred in the outrageously successful “Hamilton: An American Musical,” a hip-hop play about founding father Alexander Hamilton – tweeted out a congratulatory message to one Anna Tjeltveit, a William Allen High School student who was awarded the grand prize for Wesleyan University’s “Hamilton” Prize for Creativity.Ĭongrats to Anna Tjeltveit / winner of this year’s #HamiltonPrize, along with honorable mention winners Cole Goco and Ben Togut / History has its eyes on ALL of you!
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