The 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza for her play about the Flint, Michigan water crisis, cullad wattah. Awarded annually since 1977, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international prize honoring Women+ playwrights. On April 7, a livestream of the award ceremony honored Dickerson-Despenza and the other 9 Finalists. Award-winning star of stage and screen, and one of this year s Blackburn Prize Judges, Paapa Essiedu, announced the winning play, which comes with an award of $25,000 and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem De Kooning. What a play. Oh my God, what a play! When I say that this play hit me like a train. Like a ton of bricks. I don t think I slept for about three weeks after reading this play. It did something very significant to me. . Through its passionate exploration of the black female experience in America right now I feel like this play is going to be a classic of today and
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Award-winning playwright Tanya Shaffer to help deliver on Remote Theater s vision to engage global playwrights and showcase their work digitally around the world.
Santa Clara, CA, March 17, 2021 (PR.com) Remote Theater, a new theater company committed to pioneering the art of mixed-media live performance, has announced that award-winning actor/playwright Tanya Shaffer will be its first resident artist. In that role, she will work closely with the Remote team to develop new works and identify plays from geographic regions that are currently underrepresented on the American stage.
A long-time member of the Bay Area theater community now splitting her time between the Bay Area and Ann Arbor, Michigan, Shaffer’s plays have been produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, San Diego Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre (Seattle), and others, and have toured to more than 40 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Her musical The Fourth Messenger, a collaboration with co
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