6 Playwrights Receive 2023 Dramatists Guild Awards
This year’s recipients include Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
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Benjamin Benne, Mallory Jane Weiss Win Portland Stage Clauder Competition
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage’s upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne’s ‘Manning’ will get a full mainstage production.
AD Kate LoConti Alcocer to Step Down From Irish Classical Theatre
LoConti Alcocer will transition to the newly-created role of ICTC advisory director next season.
Alex Alpharaoh, Lisa Sanaye Dring Receive Antaeus NEXT Commissions
The commissions come with financial, dramaturgical, and logistical support for the development of original, full-length works.
Erica Ezold to Become People’s Light Managing Director
The theatre’s director of finance and operations will step into the leadership role on May 1.
Jeff Awards Launch Impact Fellowship Program
The program is currently accepting applications from Chicagoland theatre artists of color, two of whom will receive grants of $10,000.
The Devil Is Throwing a Party, and Phones Are Welcome
For Jennifer Chang’s world-premiere ‘The Devil Is a Lie,’ Quantum Theatre occupies a Pittsburgh landmark associated with one of its most notorious industrialists.
Drew Kowalkowski Named White Heron Managing Director
The former COO of Thompson Turner Productions will join artistic director Lynne Bolton and producing director/co-artistic director Michael Kopko in leading the summer theatre.
When the Process Is the Problem
After a back-and-forth over COVID vaccine policy sparked an HR investigation at New Dramatists, the fallout exposed the faultlines between the personal and the professional—and between artists and leadership.
Dante Green Receives BTE BIPOC Emerging Artist Initiative Fellowship
The flexible 3-year fellowship will culminate with Dante’s direction of BTE’s mainstage production of ‘Sanctuary City’ by Martyna Majok.
