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BUFFALO, N.Y.:<\/strong> The Alleyway Theatre<\/a> has named Karissa Murrell Myers the recipient of the 2024 Mazumdar New Play Award. Myers\u2019s award-winning play Black Bear Island<\/em> shall be produced by the Alleyway of their 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n A panel of 80 theatre artists decided 22 Mazumdar Award semifinalists over the course of a 12 months. The Alleyway inventive crew then chosen Myers\u2019s play along with finalists The Lost Women <\/em>by Nubia Monks; Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin <\/em>by Dianne Nora; and Wife of Headless Man Investigates Her Own Disappearance <\/em>by Yussef El Guindi.<\/p>\n Black Bear Island<\/em>, a 2024 National Playwrights Conference<\/a> finalist and Blue Ink Award<\/a> semifinalist, follows a lady who returns to her hometown within the Pacific Northwest after the mysterious dying of her estranged childhood sweetheart. The Alleyway\u2019s manufacturing of Black Bear Island <\/em>shall be produced in February 2025, directed by Daniel F. Lendzian.<\/p>\n Mazumdar is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, producer, and casting director and is the co-founding inventive director of Bramble Theatre Company.<\/a><\/p>\n The Mazumdar New Play Award has been introduced yearly since 1989 in reminiscence of Canadian actor and playwright Maxim Mazumdar.<\/p>\n NEW HAVEN, CONN.:<\/strong> Keegon Schuett has been awarded this 12 months\u2019s Yale Drama Series Prize<\/a> for his or her play this dry spell. <\/em>This 12 months\u2019s successful play was chosen by playwright Jeremy O. Harris from over 2,000 submissions.<\/p>\n Schuett will obtain the $10,000 money award of the David Charles Horn Prize at a ceremony in October, the place the Yale Schwarzman Center and Long Wharf Theatre<\/a> will maintain a staged studying of this dry spell<\/em>. The play will then be revealed by Yale University Press.<\/p>\n \u201cKeegon\u2019s this dry spell <\/em>is an imaginative portrayal of alienation, isolation, conflicted love, metamorphosis, hope, and beauty,\u201d Francine Horn, the director of the David Charles Horn Foundation, mentioned in a press release. \u201cIt is an uplifting, poetic piece that merited the Yale Drama Series Prize.\u201d<\/p>\n Schuett is a playwright, filmmaker, and efficiency artist from Tennessee who holds an MFA from Northwestern University. They have had a number of performs for younger audiences revealed by YouthPLAYS.<\/a><\/p>\n The Yale Drama Series Prize is run by Yale University Press and the David Charles Horn Foundation.<\/p>\n NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong> The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation<\/a> (SDCF) has introduced the inaugural Abe Burrows Award for Assistant Directors. The first awardees are Violeta Picayo and Sharifa Essa Yasmin.<\/p>\n The new award for early-career administrators comes with an unrestricted comes with an unrestricted money award of $10,000. The awarded assistant administrators should help on work by a Stage Directors and Choreographers Society<\/a> member between June 2024 and December 2024.<\/p>\n The award is called for the late director and author Abe Burrows, a Tony<\/a> and Pulitzer Prize<\/a> awardee.<\/p>\n Picayo is a director, choreographer, and actor whose directing credit embrace La MaMa,<\/a> the Public Theater,<\/a> American Repertory Theater,<\/a> Portland Center Stage,<\/a> and a number of worldwide venues. She is an organization member of the SuperGeographics and an affiliate artist with SITI Company.<\/a><\/p>\n Yasmin is a director, actor, and playwright who was beforehand a nationwide directing fellow with the O\u2019Neill Theater Center.<\/a> She was the inaugural recipient of the SDCF Barbara Whitman Award in 2021 and her play Close to Home <\/em>was named to the 2023 Kilroys List.<\/a> Yasmin holds an MFA from Brown University\/Trinity Rep.<\/p>\n CHICAGO:<\/strong> The Joyce Foundation<\/a> has introduced the recipients of the twentieth annual Joyce Awards. The awards assist artists of colour all through the Great Lakes area within the creation of latest works.<\/p>\n The artist-organization pairs will obtain a $100,000 fee, with at the least $30,000 serving as an artist stipend. <\/p>\n This 12 months\u2019s awardees embrace Andrea Assaf and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich. with the multimedia theatre manufacturing DRONE<\/em>; musician and composer Marcus Elliott and the Detroit Parks Coalition; playwright and instructing artist Terry Guest and the Chicago Children\u2019s Theatre<\/a> with the musical Milo Imagines the <\/em>World<\/i>, primarily based on the guide by Matt de la Pe\u00f1a and illustrator Christian Robinson; playwright Katie Ka Vang and Saint Paul\u2019s Theater Mu<\/a> with the theatre mission Hmong Futures<\/em>; and artist Edra Soto with the Sculpture Center in Cleveland.<\/p>\n The 2024 Joyce Awards have been decided by a panel of arts professionals, together with previous winners.<\/p>\n
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