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Playwright Michele Lowe Wins $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize

Michele Lowe The Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation and the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) are pleased to announce that playwright Michele Lowe has been awarded the 2010 Francesca Primus Prize for her play Inana. Lowe will receive her award at an upcoming ATCA conference. The Primus Prize is...

Cain Wins 2010 Steinberg/atca Award — Margulies And Zacarías Also Cited

March 27, Louisville, KY — Bill Cain’s “Equivocation” is the winner  the $25,000 2010 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. The largest such prize in the country, the Steinberg/ATCA recognizes the best American scripts which premiered professionally in the award year (2009) outside New York City. Playwright...

Theater Critics Honor Playwright Jason Wells With 2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces that Jason Wells has won its 2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented March 27 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky....

U.S. theater critics honor E.M. Lewis’ Song of Extinction

Playwright receives $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award; $7,500 Citations for Lee Blessing and Tracy Letts The American Theatre Critics Association has selected E.M. (Ellen) Lewis’ Song of Extinction to receive the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /ATCA New Play Award. The announcement was made April 4...