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DRAMATISTS
NEWS
Karin Rosnizeck and
Stefan Aleksander in
The Sculptress
by Guild
member,
Marilyn Millstone.
PHOTO: Ken Stanek
The Baltimore
Playwrights Festival
Xxx Season
Competition
Results
T
he Baltimore Playwrights
Festival proudly announces
the results of its Season XXX
competition for new works.
The Carol Weinberg Award for Best
Script, along with a $250 cash prize,
went to Stephen Schulze for his play
Abraham & Isaac. The Second Place
Award and $100 prize was won by
Kevin Kosic for Unraveled on the
Gravel: A New Musical, and the Third
Place Award and $50 prize went to
MARILYN MILLSTONE for The
Sculptress. Honorable Mentions went
to Alonzo LaMont for Zulu Fits,
COLIN RILEY for Web of Deceit, J-F
Bibeau for Self, Inc., and Nancy Murray
for Asking Questions.
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NOMINEES FOR THE 2011 LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS
CIRCLE AWARDS FOR THEATRICAL EXCELLENCE
Production
9 Circles, Alicia Adams & Jessica Hanna,
Bootleg Theater
Blackbird, Rogue Machine, Theatre/Theater
House of the Rising Son, Ensemble Studio
Theatre—LA, Atwater Village Theatre
Jerry Springer: The Opera, Chance Theater
Margo Veil, The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
and Evidence Room, Odyssey Theatre
Re-Animator: The Musical, Dean Schramm &
Stuart Gordon, Steve Allen Theater
Small Engine Repair, Rogue Machine, Theatre/Theater
The Cripple of Inishmaan, Center Theatre
Group and Druid and Atlantic Theater
Company, Kirk Douglas Theatre
Way to Heaven, Ron Sossi, Odyssey Theatre
Writing
JANE ANDERSON, The Escort, Geffen
Playhouse
David Harrower, Blackbird, Rogue Machine
at Theatre/Theater
JOHN POLLONO, Small Engine Repair,
Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater
CHARLAYNE WOODARD, The Night
Watcher, Center Theatre Group at the
Kirk Douglas Theatre
Writing (Adaptation)
DAKIN MATTHEWS, The Capulets & The
Montagues, Andak Stage Company at
NewPlace Studio Theatre
Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon & William J.
Morris, Re-Animator: The Musical, Steve
Allen Theater
Musical Score
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, AMANDA
GREEN, and TOM KITT, Bring It On:
The Musical, Center Theatre Group at the
Ahmanson Theatre
MARK NUTTER, Re-Animator: The Musical,
Steve Allen Theater
JEANINE TESORI and DAVID LINDSAYABAIRE, Shrek the Musical, DreamWorks
Theatricals, Neal Street Productions, and
Broadway/L.A. at the Pantages Theatre
RICHARD THOMAS and Stewart Lee, Jerry
Springer: The Opera, Chance Theater
Solo Performance
Tom Dugan, Nazi Hunter — Simon Wiesenthal,
Theatre 40 at the Reuben Cordova Theatre
John Fleck, Mad Women, The Katselas Theatre Company at the Skylight Theatre
Guy Hollingsworth, The Expert at the Card
Table, Menier Chocolate Factory at The
Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
John Leguizamo, Ghetto Klown, WestBeth
Entertainment at The Montálban
CHARLAYNE WOODARD, The Night
Watcher, Center Theatre Group at the
Kirk Douglas Theatre
Unique Theatrical Event
Standing on Ceremony, Joan Stein and
STUART ROSS in association with the
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lily Tomlin/
Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center at The
Renberg Theatre
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle was founded in 1969. It is dedicated to excellence in theatrical criticism, and to the encouragement and improvement of theatre in Greater Los Angeles.
Finalists For The 2011-2012 Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize Announced
T
he Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced Ten Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating its 34th year. The ten Finalists for the 2011-2012 Susan
Smith Blackburn Prize, chosen from over 100 submitted plays, are: JOHNNA ADAMS
– Gidion’s Knot (U.S.); Alice Birch – Many Moons (U.K.); MADELEINE GEORGE - Seven
Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (U.S.); Jennifer Haley – The Nether (U.S.); Nancy
Harris – No Romance (Ireland); Zinnie Harris – The Wheel (U.K.), Jaki McCarrick – Belfast Girls
(U.K.), MOLLY SMITH METZLER – Close Up Space (U.S.); Meg Miroshnik - The Fairytale
Lives of Russian Girls (U.S.); Alexis Zegerman – The Steingolds (U.K.).
The Winner of the 2011-2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize will be named at the Awards
Presentation on February 28th in London.
*Guild Members names appear in bold
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23rd Annual
Glaad Media Award Nominees
Outstanding Los Angeles Theater
Bonded by DONALD JOLLY
House of the Rising Son by TOM JACOBSON
Killer Queen: The Story of Paco the Pink Pounder by Peter Griggs
No Word in Guyanese for Me by WENDY GRAF
Who’s Your Daddy? by Johnny O’Callaghan
Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway
Maple & Vine by Jordan Harrison
Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical by Stephan Elliott and ALLAN SCOTT
Sons of the Prophet by STEPHEN KARAM
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
by TONY KUSHNER
Unnatural Acts: Harvard’s Secret Court of 1920 conceived by Tony Speciale
Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off Broadway
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen
Southern Comfort book and lyrics by DAN COLLINS, music by JULIANNE WICK DAVIS
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) by HOLLY HUGHES
The Escape Artist book by John Kelly, songs by John Kelly & Carol Lipnik
The Momentum by Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O’Donnell & JORDAN SEAVEY
2011
CARBONELL AWARD NOMINEES:
Best New Work
Brothers Beckett, David Michael Sirois, Alliance Theatre Lab
Captiva, CHRISTOPHER DEMOS-BROWN, Zoetic Stage
The Cha-Cha of the Camel Spider, CARTER W. LEWIS, Florida Stage
Stuff, MICHAEL MCKEEVER, Caldwell Theatre Company
Albany, GA – BearManor Media proudly announces the release of
its new book, Ponies & Rainbows: The Life of James Kirkwood, by
Sean Egan.
In 1975, JAMES KIRKWOOD had two shows playing on
Broadway, while his latest novel, Some Kind of Hero, saw reviewers
comparing him to Saul Bellow and Joseph Heller. One of those
shows, A Chorus Line, won him a Pulitzer Prize for his co-writing
contribution and went on to become the biggest stage phenomenon in history. Kirkwood led a life that was as gripping as any of
his novels or plays. The son of silent screen stars, his riches-torags childhood was littered with trauma, including finding the
dead body of his mother’s fiancé when he was twelve. This definitive biography is the
result of over seven years of research in which more than 60 of Kirkwood’s family, lovers,
colleagues, friends and adversaries were interviewed. In a sweeping narrative that takes in
Hollywood in the Twenties, the boom era of New York nightclubs in the Forties, and the
Eighties AIDS holocaust, Ponies & Rainbows both details a remarkable life and seeks to
re-establish an even more remarkable talent.
To learn about this or other BearManor Media titles, visit their website at www.
bearmanormedia.com
Frances
Ya-Chu Cowhig
Named 2011
Wasserstein
Prize Winner
December 29, 2011 merging playwright Frances Ya-Chu
Cowhig received the 2011 Wasserstein Prize in recognition of her
work to date and her promise, as exemplified
in part by her play 72 Transformations. The
Wasserstein Prize is given by the Educational
Foundation of America (EFA) to encourage
the work of a young woman playwright in
honor of the late Pulitzer and Tony Awardwinning playwright, WENDY WASSERSTEIN, who died in 2006. The $25,000
prize is awarded to a young woman who has
not yet received national attention. The Wasserstein Prize is funded by the Educational
Foundation of America (EFA) and administered by Theatre Development Fund.
The previous winners of The Wasserstein
Prize were LINDA RAMSEY (2007),
LAURA JACQMIN (2008) and Marisa
Wegrzyn (2009).
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