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New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is a regional public, pre-professional arts training center that offers students intensive instruction in culinary arts, dance, media arts: filmmaking & audio production, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design), visual arts, and creative writing, while demanding simultaneous academic excellence.

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Creative Writing Students Host Panel at Tennessee Williams Festival

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365 Days/365 Plays - Theatre Arts: Drama

Synopsis 365 Days/365 Plays is a groundbreaking collection of short plays by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Written over the course of a year—one play each day beginning Novemb...

Umbra Release Party - April 1st

Umbra Release Party Creative Writing April 1, 2026

Creative Writing Scholastic Winners

Scholastic Winners Creative Writing March 11, 2026

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