The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards for Festival Year 2020
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award
Dream Hou$e
By Eliana Pipes, Boston University
Produced by California State University San Marcos
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The Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award
TumbleWEEDS
By Anuhea Brown, NYU
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Second Place
Saturday the 13th
By Isaiah Reaves, University of Iowa
The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award
How to Bruise Gracefully
By Brittany Fisher, the Juilliard School
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Second Place
Good Fit
By Nkenna Akunna, Brown University
Distinguished Achievement
Songs of a Caged Bird
By Christopher Lindsay, Brown University/Trinity Repertory
and
The Write Choice
By Daysha Veronica, UCLA
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The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award
Good Fit
By Nkenna Akunna, Brown University
Second Place
How to Bruise Gracefully
By Brittany Fisher, the Juilliard School
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Distinguished Achievement
Songs of a Caged Bird
By Christopher Lindsay, Brown University/Trinity Repertory
The David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
summertime: an interlude
by Aniello Fontano, University of New Mexico
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and
I’m Lot Lane (a solo effort)
By Keola Simpson and Members of ¡好 / Peligro! (or Aloha also means goodbye)
Produced by University of Hawaii at Manoa
and
How to Clean Your Room (and remember your trauma)
By J. Chavez, Western Washington University
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The KCACTF Musical Theatre Award
The Preparation to the Death of Mary Dyer
By Jeremy Geragotelis, University of Iowa
The Jean Kennedy Smith Award
Reap the Grove
By Caity-Shea Violette, Boston University
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Second Place
The Anxiety of Laughing
Andrew Justvig, University of California, Riverside
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and
Hard Places
Garrett Zuercher, Hunter College
Distinguished Achievement
Light Switch
By Dave Osmundsen, Arizona State University
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The Latinx Playwriting Award
Co-recipients
The Jersey Devil is a Papi Chulo
By Iraisa Ann Reilly, NYU
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and
Temporary
By Amy Toruño, University of Illinois
Distinguished Achievement
¡Nails! a happy gay latina play
By Eliana Pipes, Boston University
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and
En Las Sombras
By Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Ohio University
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The Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award
For outstanding play for young audiences
En Las Sombras
By Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Ohio University
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Second Place
Exotic Deadly or the MSG Play
By Keiko Green, University of California San Diego
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Distinguished Achievement
Good Heavens!
By Daniel Repp, Western Washington University
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The Planet Earth Arts Playwriting Award
Goods
By Lauren Ferebee, University of Arkansas
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The Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
[cowboy face]
By Elise Wien, Boston University
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Second Place
The Jersey Devil is a Papi Chulo
By Iraisa Ann Reilly, NYU
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and
Long
By Charlie Oh, The Juilliard School
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Distinguished Achievement
Good Heavens!
By Daniel Repp, Western Washington University
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and
The Migratory Patterns of the North American Monarch Butterfly and Development of Fatherless Sons or A Great Migration
By Preston Choi, University of California San Diego
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The Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award
The Migratory Patterns of the North American Monarch Butterfly and Development of Fatherless Sons or A Great Migration
By Preston Choi, University of California- San Diego
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Second Place
Jar of Fat
By Seayoung Yim, Brown University
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Distinguished Achievement
Exotic Deadly or the MSG Play
and
Hometown Boy
By Keiko Green
University of California San Diego
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The Paula Vogel Playwriting Award
Long
By Charlie Oh
The Juilliard School
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Second Place
How to Bruise Gracefully
By Brittany Fisher, the Juilliard School
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The National Undergraduate Playwriting Award
Good Heavens!
By Daniel Repp
Western Washington University
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Second Place
Radial Gradient
By Jasmine Sharma
Northwestern University
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Distinguished Achievement
Land of Opportunity
By Jeremiah Abdullah
University of Texas at Austin
The National Finalists of the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play
Omo Mi
by Sadia Alao, University of Maryland College Park
Outraged
by Jayne Deely, Indiana University Bloomington
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Theresa’s Breasts
by Amber Palmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Spencer
by Madison Miller, Texas State University
The National Finalists of the Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award
Bev Playing Bev in “The Money Shot”
by Amber Palmer, University of Wisconsin- Madison
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Limes in Santo Domingo
by Abi Mirikitani, University of Missouri
What We Will Be
by Samuel Kang, Adelphi University
Into the Mystic
By Kalina Gallardo, University of Texas at El Paso
