USITT Announces 2016 Young Designers & Technicians Awards
Recent graduates and students in their final semester of graduate programs are lauded for their work behind the scenes.
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Recent graduates and students in their final semester of graduate programs are lauded for their work behind the scenes.
Three new works will be developed at Loyola University.
Grant winners include dramaturgs from Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Canada.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Qui Nguyen are this year’s finalists.
The company named the writers who will be part of its new-work development program for 2016–17.
Ten female playwrights from the U.S. and the U.K. are nominated, with the winner to be announced Feb. 22.
The new-play incubator and creative home opens its doors for emerging artists to develop work.
Monetary awards will be given to each playwright and to the theatres producing the premiere productions of their plays.
The awards are bestowed to musical theatre librettists and lyricists in honor of ‘Chorus Line’ lyricist Edward L. Kleban.
The new artistic director’s first initiative is to make ACT a creative home for local performers.