Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Announces 2019 Finalists
Among the finalists are Heidi Schreck, Lauren Yee, Martyna Majok, Hilary Bettis, Lily Padilla, and Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Among the finalists are Heidi Schreck, Lauren Yee, Martyna Majok, Hilary Bettis, Lily Padilla, and Jackie Sibblies Drury.
A winner will be selected in early March.
The $25,000 prize goes to a play about gender expectations, to have its premiere next spring at Playwrights Horizons.
The 10 finalists are women playwrights from the U.S. and the U.K.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright receives a $25,000 award for her play about America’s industrial decline.
The Croatian playwright has won the biggest and oldest prize for female playwrights.
Nominees for the women-only playwright honor include Lisa D’Amour, Clare Barron, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Lindsey Ferrentino, Heidi Schreck and Ruby Rae Spiegel.
Meg Miroshnik creates piece featuring young Russian girls after noticing a lack of females in Russian theatre.
Cheryl L. West is unafraid to go where her work take her, whether it’s the front lines of the HIV/AIDS crisis or the lives of generations of black women.