Tena Stivicic Wins Blackburn Drama Prize
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The playwright Tena Stivicic was to be awarded the 37th annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize on Monday night for her play “3 Winters,” a dark, era-hopping drama about a Croatian family in post-World War II Zagreb. At a ceremony at Playwrights Horizons, Ms. Stivicic was to receive $25,000 and a numbered print by the artist Willem de Kooning.
The Blackburn, the oldest and largest prize awarded to female playwrights, is given annually to an English-language theater work of outstanding quality.
The play had its premiere in December at the National Theater in London. Writing about the show last month, Ben Brantley said it “considers the moral price exacted for survival through decades of divisive political foment” with the “layered, quotidian naturalism of fat family sagas like Thomas Mann’s ‘Buddenbrooks’ or Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet chronicles.”
Six shows that have or will play New York were among the finalists for the award. They include Lisa D’Amour’s “Airline Highway,” coming to Broadway this spring; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “The World of Extreme Happiness,” now playing at City Center; and Lindsey Ferrentino’s “Ugly Lies the Bone,” scheduled as part of the Roundabout Underground season in September. Clare Barron’s “You Got Older,” Heidi Schreck’s “Grand Concourse” and Ruby Rae Spiegel’s “Dry Land” have finished their New York runs.
Winning the Blackburn prize can be a major boost to a playwright’s career. “The Nether,” by Jennifer Haley, the winner of the 2011-12 prize, is now being mounted at the Lucille Lortel in an MCC Theater production. Annie Baker won the 2012-13 prize for “The Flick,” which later won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Willem de Kooning
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Erik Piepenburg
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Playwrights Horizons
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Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. Writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs: script and score evaluations, commissions, readings, musical theater workshops, Studio and Mainstage productions.
Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theater Row. The current building was built on the site of a former burlesque.
André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981 to 1991, followed by Don Scardino who served through 1995.
Playwrights Horizons' auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Ticket Central, a central box office that supports the off-Broadway performing arts community.
In its 43 years, Playwrights Horizons has worked with over 375 writers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2005, it was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
TIM SANFORD
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LESLIE MARCUS
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