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ATCA Awards Stephanie Alison Walker 2019 Primus Prize

The award, given to an emerging woman playwright, recognizes Walker’s play ‘The Madres’ with a $10,000 honorarium.

The prize recognizes the writer for ‘How the Light Gets In’ and comes with $25,000.

Also cited were Noah Haidle’s ‘Birthday Candles’ and Jen Silverman’s ‘Witch,’ with the Osborn Award going to Spenser Davis’s ‘Plainclothes.’

This year I geeked out with fellow theatre folks, sampled local cuisine and culture, and took away a notebook full of practical tips.

The prize recognizes her play ‘Book of Will’ and comes with $25,000.

Nate Eppler and Michael Cristofer received prizes.

She will receive an award of $10,000 for her play ‘in a word.’

The workshop will bring together theatre critics in the Seattle region.

How theatre critics can use their words, and their status, to be more inclusive of both theatre artists and a diverse new generation of journalists.

A play based on his parents’ history has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s annual new play prize.