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Playwright Aleshea Harris Celebrated At Hermitage Greenfield Prize Award Dinner More than 130 guests gathered during a socially distanced evening to celebrate the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize at Michael's On East in Sarasota.by BWW News Desk More than 130 guests gathered to celebrate playwright Aleshea Harris, the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, on Sunday, April 11, at the annual Prize Dinner at Michael's On East in Sarasota. The event had been moved earlier that day from its original outdoor setting at The Ringling's Ca' d'Zan due to inclement weather. The fe...

'She was absolutely murdered': Parents of schoolteacher stabbed 20 times inside her Philadelphia apartment in 2011 say new evidence shows she never Googled suicide on her laptop as officials had claimed Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old elementary school teacher, was found dead on January 26, 2011 in the kitchen of her Philadelphia apartment She had been stabbed 10 times in the back of her neck and head and 10 times in her stomach, abdomen and chest  The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, before switching the cause of death to suicide  Cops claimed Greenberg had been alone and the do...

Playwright Aleshea Harris Awarded 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO), in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, has selected OBIE-winning playwright Aleshea Harris as the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, given this year in the artistic discipline of theater. Harris will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work, which will have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2023 in collaboration with the Hermitage’s presenting partner, Asolo Repertory Theatre (...

The nonprofit aims to unify the community through the arts. By Kay Kipling 12/18/2020 at 10:38am Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative president Michele Des Verney Redwine. The Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative, a nonprofit promoting using the unifying power of the arts to nurture inclusion and diversity, has been around since 2017. But it’s received a fresh burst of energy with the addition of several new board members recently, according to founder and artist Michele Des Verney Redwine. “We got some new board members in February, and we have done a lot of work since then,” says R...