NEW YORK CITY: Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson has been named the 2022 recipient of the annual Horton Foote Prize for her play the ripple, the wave that carried me residence. The award acknowledges excellence in American theatre within the title of the late Pulitzer-winning playwright.
In an in-person celebration on Oct. 24, Anderson can be introduced with award, and can obtain $50,000 and a restricted version of Keith Carter’s iconic {photograph} of Horton Foote. She can be introduced the award by Pulitzer-winning playwrights Paula Vogel and Lynn Nottage, who’ve additionally served as Anderson’s lecturers and mentors.
The ripple, the wave that carried me residence is one girls’s account of her household’s function within the political struggle for the combination of swimming swimming pools in Kansas within the Nineteen Sixties. Commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, it was co-nominated by Berkeley Rep and the Goodman Theatre. The play is now in its world premiere at Berkeley Rep via Oct. 26, with productions to observe at Oregon’s Portland Center Stage in October, Chicago Goodman’s Theatre in January 2023, Kansas City Rep in March 2023, and Yale Rep in April 2023.
Said choose chair Sharon Washington in a press release, “I was immediately struck by the poetry of Christina’s play. ‘I inherited the weight of water. The heaviness, the consequence of it — not the joy.’ What do you do with dreams that are not your own? What is your responsibility to the community? To yourself? Her words flow over and through you, carrying us on a beautifully sensory experience that lingers long after the last word is spoken. Completely compelling. Bravo!”
The celebration can even embody the inaugural Horton Foote Prize Gratitude Gift, which is able to award a 501c3 nonprofit group that has a optimistic influence via the work of the theatre, as chosen by the honorary chair. The first $10,000 reward can be awarded to Theatre Gap Initiative, a college-prep program for highschool grads planning to use for Bachelor of Fine Arts and conservatory applications. The intention is to award to a Black, Indigenous, or person-of-color pupil from an economically challenged background. Theatre Gap Initiative gives college students intensive coaching in performing, dance, and voice and steerage via the faculty utility course of. The program is being led by theatre educator Corey Mitchell.
Anderson was chosen based mostly on a creative judges panel that included playwright Sharon Washington; creative director of New York Stage and Film, Christopher Burney; scenic designer Wilson Chin; and freelance director and theatre guide Seema Sueko.
Anderson is a playwright, screenwriter, and educator, and was nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for co-writing the e book of the Broadway musical Paradise Square. Other performs written by Anderson embody How to Catch Creation, pen/man/ship, Man in Love, and Good Goods. Anderson’s work has appeared on the Goodman Theatre, the Public Theater, and Yale Repertory Theatre, amongst others. Select awards embody the 2021 Prince Prize, United States Artists Fellow, and the MacDowell Fellowship. Anderson has additionally taught playwriting at Rutgers University, Wesleyan University, David Geffen School of Drama, and SUNY Purchase College, and she or he served because the interim head of playwrighting at Brown University.
The Horton Foote Prize is based and funded by the Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation of Austin.
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