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Susan Smith Blackburn Award
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women+ writing for English-speaking theatre. Named for Susan Smith Blackburn (1935–1977), alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer. Winners * 1978–79 Mary O'Malley * 1979–80 Barbara Schneider, for ''Details Without a Map'' * 1980–81 Wendy Kesselman * 1981–82 Nell Dunn * 1982–83 Marsha Norman * 1983–84 Caryl Churchill * 1984–86 Shirley Gee * 1986–86 Anne Devlin * 1986–87 Mary Gallagher * 1986–87 Ellen McLaughlin * 1987–88 Caryl Churchill * 1988–89 Wendy Wasserstein * 1989–90 Lucy Gannon * 1990–91 Rona Munro; Cheryl West * 1991–92 Timberlake Wertenbaker * 1992–93 Marlane Meyer * 1993–94 Jane Coles * 1994–95 Susan Miller; Kristine Thatcher; Naomi Wallace * 1995–96 Naomi Wallace * 1996–97 Marina Carr * 1997–98 Moira Buffini * 1997–98 Paula Vogel * 1998–99 Jessica Goldberg * 1999–00 Bridget Carpenter * 2000–01 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College), Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters (colleges), Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. Smith is also a member of the Five College Consortium, along with four other nearby institutions in the Pioneer Valley: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst; students of each college are allowed to attend classes at any other member institution. On campus are Smith's Smith College Museum of Art, Museum of Art and The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Botanic Garden, the latter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Smith has 41 academic departments and programs and is structured around a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Coles
Jane Coles is a British playwright. She won the 1994 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women+ writing for English-speaking theatre. Named for Susan Smith Blackburn (1935–1977), alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer. W .... Works Plays * ''Backstroke in a Crowded Pool'', 1993 * ''Cat with Green Violin'', 1991 * ''Crossing the Equator'', 1995 * ''Low Flying Aircraft'', 1999 * ''Cat With Green Violin'', 2004 * ''The Ultimate Fudge'' Criticism * References External linksJANE COLES, doollee {{DEFAULTSORT:Coles, Jane British dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (born Watford) is a British Sikh writer who has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her play ''Behzti'' (''Dishonour'') was cancelled by the Birmingham Rep after protests against the play by Sikhs turned violent and alleged death threats forced Bhatti to go into hiding. Life Bhatti's first play, ''Behsharam'' (''Shameless''), received criticism from the Sikh community when it opened in 2001. In 2005, ''Behzti'' won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman.'Bezhti' author wins prize for women playwrights Louise Jury, The Independent, 8 March 2005, retrieved 9 June 2009 In 2010, her follow-up to ''Behzti'' titled '' Behud'' (''Beyond Belief'') was co-produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade and was shortlisted for the John Whiting Award. In 2014, ''Khandan'' (''Family'') opened to sell-out audiences at the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. In June 2014, her first anthology of plays, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are ''Eurydice'' (2003), '' The Clean House'' (2004), and ''In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)'' (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play. In 2020, she adapted her play ''Eurydice'' into the libretto for Matthew Aucoin's opera of the same name. In 2015, she published a collection of essays, ''100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write''. Her most recent play, ''Becky Nurse of Salem'' (2019) premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She currently serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. In 2018, ''Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship'', co-authored by Max Ritvo, was published by Milkweed Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dael Orlandersmith
Dael Orlandersmith (born Donna Brown, 1960–) is an American actress, poet and playwright. She is known for her Obie Award-winning ''Beauty's Daughter'' and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, ''Yellowman''. Early life Orlandersmith, born Donna Dael Theresa Orlander Smith Brown in 1959, in New York City's East Harlem. She attended Hunter College but left to attend acting classes at the HB Studio and Actors Studio. She wrote of her work: "There is a theme throughout the work that I write...about childhood and the sins of the father, the sins of the mother, and how people take on the very thing they don’t like about their parents and they become them.” Career ;''Beauty's Daughter'' Her play ''Beauty's Daughter'' premiered Off-Broadway at the American Place Theatre from January 25, 1995 to March 26, 1995. Directed by Peter Askin it is a one-woman performance piece. As described by ''The New York Times'' reviewer, the show "aims at more than an extended poetry reading. Suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Gionfriddo
Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer. Her play ''Becky Shaw'' was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and her play ''Rapture, Blister, Burn'' was a 2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She has written for the television series ''Law & Order'' and " FBI: Most Wanted." Biography Gionfriddo grew up in Washington, D.C., where she attended Georgetown Day School.Cohen, Patricia"Onstage, Tackling Ambition and Crime"''The New York Times'', December 29, 2008 She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University and completed Brown University's MFA (MFA 1997) playwriting program where she studied with playwright Paula Vogel.Goodman, Lawrence"Art and Life"''Brown Alumni Magazine'', May/June 2013 In addition to writing her own material, she has also taught playwriting at Brown University, Providence College, and Rhode Island College. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island and currently resides in New York City, where she is a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Jones (writer)
Charlotte Jones is a British actress, screenwriter and playwright. Career Her first play ''Airswimming'' debuted in 1997 at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Her other plays include ''In Flame'', ''The Dark'', ''The Lightning Play'', and ''Humble Boy''. Charlotte Jones wrote the book to the 2004-2006 West End musical, '' The Woman in White'', in collaboration with the David Zippel and Andrew Lloyd Webber.Bird, Allen''The Woman in White'' londontheatre.co.uk, 20 September 2004 thisistheatre.com, accessed 17 March 2016 She has created the '' |
Bridget Carpenter
Bridget Carpenter (born in New York City) is a television writer and playwright. Biography She received an M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995.Rodriguez, Bill"Bridget Carpenter swings into Trinity" providencephoenix.com, May 11–18, 2000 Her plays have been produced at venues including Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and La Mama ETC, New York. She lives in Los Angeles. She has written the book for a musical version of the book (and films) ''Freaky Friday''. The musical premiered in October 2016 at the Signature Theatre, followed by a run from January to March 2017 at the La Jolla Playhouse under the direction of Christopher Ashley. Awards She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony, for her work on the first season of ''Friday Night Lights''. She was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series the following year at the February 2008 ceremony, for her work on the second season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Goldberg
Jessica Goldberg (born 1975) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and television writer. In 1999, she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, '' Refuge''. Goldberg is the creator of the Hulu series '' The Path'' and served as the showrunner for the Netflix series '' Away''. Early life and education Goldberg is from Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was raised Jewish and grew up in Woodstock, New York. Goldberg is a graduate of the dramatic writing program at New York University, and of the Juilliard School. Career She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South and a recipient of the Le Compte de Nouy stipend, the first annual Helen Merrill Award, and a 2000 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Award. She was also a resident at New River Dramatists, a member of the PEN American Center. Her play ''What You Need'' was commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company. ''Refuge'' premiered at Playwrights' Horizons and won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright who received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ''How I Learned to Drive.'' A longtime teacher, Vogel spent the bulk of her academic career – from 1984 to 2008 – at Brown University, where she served as Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor in Creative Writing, oversaw its playwriting program, and helped found the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. From 2008 to 2012, Vogel was Eugene O'Neill Professor of Playwriting and department chair at the Yale School of Drama, as well as playwright in residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Biography Early years Vogel was born in Washington, D.C., to Donald Stephen Vogel, an advertising executive, and Phyllis Rita (Bremerman), a secretary for the United States Postal Service Training and Development Center. Her father was Jewish, whereas her mother was Roman Catholic. She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1969 to 1970 and 1971 to 1972, and is a graduate of The Catholic U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Buffini
Moira Buffini (born 29 May 1965) is an English dramatist, director, and actor. Early life Buffini was born in Cheshire to Irish parents, and attended St Mary's College at Rhos-on-Sea in Wales as a day girl. She studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College, London University (1983–86).http://www.proscenium.org.uk/productions/assets/0306-dinner/programme.pdf She subsequently trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. Career For ''Jordan'', co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe play. Her 1997 play ''Gabriel'' was performed at Soho theatre, winning the LWT Plays on Stage award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. Her 1999 play ''Silence'' earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. ''Loveplay'' followed at the RSC in 2001, then ''Dinner'' at the National Theatre in 2003 which transferred to the West End and was nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Carr
Marina Carr is an Irish playwright who has written almost thirty plays, including '' By the Bog of Cats'' (1998). Early life and education Carr was born in Dublin, Ireland, but spent the majority of her childhood in Pallas Lake, County Offaly, adjacent to the town of Tullamore. Carr's father, Hugh Carr, was a playwright and studied music under Frederick May, while her mother, Maura Eibhlín Breathnach, was the principal of the local school and wrote poetry in Irish. It was said that "there were a lot of literary rivalries." As a child, Carr and her siblings built a theater in their shed.Marina Carr. Plays One. London: Faber &Faber, 1999. p. 185 Carr attended University College Dublin, studying English and philosophy. She graduated in 1987. In 2011, she received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from her alma mater. Career Carr has held posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and has taught at Trinity College Dublin, Princeton University, and Villanova Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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