6 Playwrights Receive 2023 Dramatists Guild Awards
This year’s recipients include Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
This year’s recipients include Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage’s upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne’s ‘Manning’ will get a full mainstage production.
The commissions come with financial, dramaturgical, and logistical support for the development of original, full-length works.
The program is currently accepting applications from Chicagoland theatre artists of color, two of whom will receive grants of $10,000.
The flexible 3-year fellowship will culminate with Dante’s direction of BTE’s mainstage production of ‘Sanctuary City’ by Martyna Majok.
The Tank is currently accepting applications from early-career producers for renewable $15,000 fellowships.
The HawtPlates and Same As Sister will develop new in-person performances, while Janani Balasubramanian and Joshua William Gelb will create new work for the URHERE virtual platform.
The festival will show readings of work by the Realm’s 2023 Writing Fellows.
The prestigious award comes with an unrestricted grant of $175,000.
The dramatists will present a reading with the other 2023 award winners at the Center for Fiction on March 30.