All Stories About The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

Ro Reddick, Hannah Doran Both Win Blackburn Prize

The time the judges honored both Reddick’s surreal ‘Cold War Choir Practice’ and Doran’s gritty ‘The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights.’

Her play ‘cullud wattah’ is honored, with Kimber Lee’s ‘The Water Palace’ and Ife Olujobi’s ‘Jordans’ also specially commended.

This year’s finalists include Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Miranda Rose Hall, Jiehae Park, and Beth Steel.

The British playwright will receive $25,000 and a de Kooning print.

Ten female playwrights from the U.S. and the U.K. are nominated, with the winner to be announced Feb. 22.