AMERICAN THEATRE | Yale Drama Collection Prize, Joyce Awards, and Extra

BUFFALO, N.Y.: The Alleyway Theatre has named Karissa Murrell Myers the recipient of the 2024 Mazumdar New Play Award. Myers’s award-winning play Black Bear Island shall be produced by the Alleyway of their 2024-25 season.

A panel of 80 theatre artists decided 22 Mazumdar Award semifinalists over the course of a 12 months. The Alleyway inventive group then chosen Myers’s play along with finalists The Misplaced Girls by Nubia Monks; Six Males Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora; and Spouse of Headless Man Investigates Her Personal Disappearance by Yussef El Guindi.

Black Bear Island, a 2024 Nationwide Playwrights Convention finalist and Blue Ink Award semifinalist, follows a girl who returns to her hometown within the Pacific Northwest after the Mysterious demise of her estranged childhood sweetheart. The Alleyway’s manufacturing of Black Bear Island shall be produced in February 2025, directed by Daniel F. Lendzian.

Mazumdar is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, producer, and casting director and is the co-founding inventive director of Bramble Theatre Firm.

The Mazumdar New Play Award has been introduced yearly since 1989 in reminiscence of Canadian actor and playwright Maxim Mazumdar.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.: Keegon Schuett has been awarded this 12 months’s Yale Drama Collection Prize for his or her play this dry spell. This 12 months’s profitable play was chosen by playwright Jeremy O. Harris from over 2,000 submissions.

Schuett will obtain the $10,000 money award of the David Charles Horn Prize at a ceremony in October, the place the Yale Schwarzman Middle and Lengthy Wharf Theatre will maintain a staged studying of this dry spell. The play will then be revealed by Yale College Press.

“Keegon’s this dry spell is an imaginative portrayal of alienation, isolation, coNFLicted love, metamorphosis, hope, and sweetness,” Francine Horn, the director of the David Charles Horn Basis, stated in a press release. “It’s an uplifting, poetic piece that merited the Yale Drama Collection Prize.”

Schuett is a playwright, filMMAker, and efficiency artist from Tennessee who holds an MFA from Northwestern College. They’ve had a number of performs for younger audiences revealed by YouthPLAYS.

The Yale Drama Collection Prize is run by Yale College Press and the David Charles Horn Basis.

NEW YORK CITY: The Stage Administrators and Choreographers Basis (SDCF) has introduced the inaugural Abe Burrows Award for Assistant Administrators. The primary awardees are Violeta Picayo and Sharifa Essa Yasmin.

The brand new award for early-career administrators comes with an unrestricted comes with an unrestricted money award of $10,000. The awarded assistant administrators should help on work by a Stage Administrators and Choreographers Society member between June 2024 and December 2024.

The award is known as for the late director and author Abe Burrows, a Tony and Pulitzer Prize awardee.

Picayo is a director, choreographer, and actor whose directing credit embrace La MaMa, the Public Theater, American Repertory Theater, Portland Middle Stage, and a number of worldwide venues. She is an organization member of the SuperGeographics and an affiliate artist with SITI Firm.

Yasmin is a director, actor, and playwright who was beforehand a nationwide directing fellow with the O’Neill Theater Middle. She was the inaugural recipient of the SDCF Barbara Whitman Award in 2021 and her play Near House was named to the 2023 Kilroys Checklist. Yasmin holds an MFA from Brown College/Trinity Rep.

CHICAGO: The Joyce Basis has introduced the recipients of the twentieth annual Joyce Awards. The awards assist artists of shade all through the Nice Lakes area within the creation of latest works.

The artist-organization pairs will obtain a $100,000 fee, with not less than $30,000 serving as an artist stipend.

This 12 months’s awardees embrace Andrea Assaf and the Arab American Nationwide Museum in Dearborn, Mich. with the multimedia theatre manufacturing DRONE; musician and composer Marcus Elliott and the Detroit Parks Coalition; playwright and instructing artist Terry Visitor and the Chicago Kids’s Theatre with the musical Milo Imagines the World, primarily based on the ebook by Matt de la Peña and illustrator Christian Robinson; playwright Katie Ka Vang and Saint Paul’s Theater Mu with the theatre undertaking Hmong Futures; and artist Edra Soto with the Sculpture Middle in Cleveland.

The 2024 Joyce Awards have been decided by a panel of arts professionals, together with previous winners.

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