2018 Annual Parity Gala
 

Congratulations to the winners of our 2018 Annual Parity Commission

Parity Productions Awards 2018 Parity Commissions
October 1, 2018, American Theatre Magazine

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Liz Kerin

Liz Kerin (she/her) s a graduate of the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has a background in screenwriting as well as live theatre. Stop-Motion was selected for the Botanicum Seedlings development workshop at Theatricum Botanicum and was a semi-finalist at Premiere Stages and was selected for The Road Theatre’s annual playwright’s festival. Her work has been seen at New York University, FringeNYC, 440 Studios, The Producer’s Club, and with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Liz was featured on the Tracking Board’s Young and Hungry List, which names the top up-and-coming screenwriters in Hollywood, and her feature script PYONGYANG HOME VIDEO made the 2016 Hit List. She’s currently developing a television series and adapting a YA novel to screen. Liz's debut novel The Phantom Forest will be released by Inkshares in early 2019. Twitter: @Liz_Kerin.

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Azure D. Osborne-Lee

Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/him, they/them) is a current member of Trans Lab, which is supported by The Public Theater and WP Theater. Azure's work has been produced and/or developed by Trans Lab, The Tank, The Syndicate, The Flea Theater, BAX|Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BAM, JACK, Rising Circle Theater Collective, The Fire This Time Festival, Horse Trade Theater Group, The Castillo Theatre, The New Ohio Theatre, National Black Theatre, Freedom Train Productions, Downtown Urban Arts Festival, Lambda Literary, The Helix Queer Performance Group, and regionally. Winner of Downtown Urban Arts Festival’s 2018 Best Play Award and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest. http://azureosbornelee.com

2018 Host Committee
Ashley Garrett • Howard Goldberg and Jo-Ann Sickinger • Mary Francina Golden • Elizabeth Green ​Helen Mills and Gary Tannenbaum • Jann Leeming • Gregory Murphy ​• Devida Jenkins • Joan Kedziora Maritza and Tom McCaskill • Judith Polzer • Julie Sargent • Lisa Schiller • Kathleen Treat • Ludovica Villar-Hauser • George Weinhouse MD

 

Honorable Mention

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Shualee Cook

Shualee Cook (she/her) has been writing theatre in the Midwest for so long that she’s starting to forget how to speak Californian. She has been a resident playwright at Tesseract Theatre in Saint Louis, and Stage Left Theatre in Chicago. Plays in performance and development include Earworm, Cercle Hermaphroditos, An Invitation Out, Sunset Artists of the American West, Tempest In A Teapot, Osgood Rex, The Geography of Nowhere, and Music of the Goddess.

Moments from the Gala

Photography by Carlotta Brentan.

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