National KCACTF Honors Two Region IV Scripts​

KCACTF National has announced its top honors for playwriting, and our Region is proud to have hosted two of them!

William O’Neal II from Emory University was among the most-lauded playwrights from any Region, for his play To All the Strange Boys Who Had to Grow Up. That script was honored with:

  • The National Undergraduate Playwriting Awards – Second Place
  • The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Awards – Distinguished Achievement
  • The Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Awards – Distinguished Achievement

Syreeta Briggs from Savannah College of Art and Design was honored with the Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award for their play Teeth: A Morality Play… For an Orca-Struh uh Black Folk Tied uh Grinnin’.

CONGRATULATIONS TO WILLIAM AND SYREETA!