Parity Productions Names Annual Commission Winners - October 22, 2019, American Theatre Magazine
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.
Gina Femia
Gina Femia (she/her) has written 32 full-length plays which include ALLOND(R)A (Winner: Leah Ryan Prize, Runner-up, Yale Drama Prize), We Are a Masterpiece (Winner: The Doric Wilson Award), The Mermaids’ Parade (Semifinalist, The Relentless Award, Finalist, Princess Grace Award), REBELS TIL DEATH (Reading, Playwrights Horizons), Annie and the Fat Man (Honorable Mention, The Kilroys), THIS HAPPENED ONCE AT THE ROMANCE DEPOT OFF THE I-87 IN WESTCHESTER (Workshop, Youngblood), Super, or, How Clark Graves Learned to Fly (semi-finalist The O’Neill and The Princess Grace Award)... Read more
Ashley Garrett and Alan Jones • The Georges • Howard Goldberg & Jo-Ann Sickinger • Mary Francina Golden & Kenneth Handal • Jann Leeming & Arthur Little • Helen Mills & Gary Tannenbaum • Gregory Murphy • Janice Orlandi • Judith Polzer • Lisa Schiller • Kathleen Treat • Ludovica Villar-Hauser • Mel Wymore
Honorable Mentions
We are always blown away by the talent that we see in our script submissions. To recognize just how many talented women, trans, and gender-expansive playwrights there are in our industry, starting 2019, Parity is recognizing multiple Honorable Mention playwrights. Check out 2019's Honorable Mentions below.
liz appel
Liz Appel (she/her) is a New Georges Affiliate Artist and has been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Award, Ashland New Plays Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn, and was a winner of the 2016 Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women. Her short play, Snow, was produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, and her one-act play, Remember, is published in Blackbird. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College.
amy berryman
Amy Berryman (she/her) is a writer and actor originally from Seattle. Her full length plays include Walden (Premiere Play Festival Runner Up 2019), The New Galileos (O'Neill Finalist 2019) Three Year Summer, and The Whole of You (commissioned by Rising Phoenix Rep). Her short play Winner was recently a finalist in the Sam French OOB Festival and her short film "You Are Everywhere" won "Best Short Drama" in the LA Short Film Festival 2018. amy-berryman.com
shanti reinhardt
Shanti Reinhardt (she/her) is from Kauai, Hawaii based in Los Angeles. Her latest play, Kill ‘Em With Aloha; Or, Da Big Mouth Pidgin English Play is currently in development with Ian Anthony Dale’s production company 20k based at CBS TVS. Her play, Otis was part of The Great Plains Theatre Conference 2018 and a Finalist for Ashland New Plays Festival 2018. Blunt Force was recently chosen to be part of NJ Rep’s 7th Theatre Brut Festival 2019.
paige zubel
Paige Zubel (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based playwright, dramaturg, and producer. Her plays have been developed and produced internationally with over 50 companies including Berridge Conservatory (Amos and the Stars, France), Normal Ave Productions (Dead Meat, NYC), and What If? Productions (A String Between Man and the World, NC). Her plays and prose have been published through houses including Smith & Kraus, One Act Play Depot, and Hashtag Queer. She is the Artistic Associate of Shakespeare in Clark Park, Resident Dramaturg of Paper Doll Ensemble, and a member of The Foundry, PlayPenn's emerging playwrights' lab.
Moments from the 2019 Awards Ceremony
October 16th, 2019 at Theaterlab. Photography by John Quilty.
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