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NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong> The American Playwriting Foundation<\/a> and Building for the Arts<\/a> have introduced that Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Laura Grill Jaye, recognized professionally as\u00a0Grill and Chowder<\/a>, have gained the Relentless Musical Award for his or her new musical\u00a0How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia<\/em>. They will obtain $65,000\u2014the most important money prize in American theatre offered to an unproduced work\u2014in addition to alternatives to have\u00a0How the White Girl\u2026\u00a0<\/em>developed at numerous theatrical establishments, together with a sequence of staged readings at Theatre Row<\/a>.<\/p>\n The annual Relentless Award<\/a> was created in honor of\u00a0Philip Seymour Hoffman<\/a>. It is offered this yr to a musical submission in honor of\u00a0Adam Schlesinger, the Oscar- and Tony-nominated, Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter (Fountains of Wayne, Cry-Baby<\/em>, My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Bedwetter<\/em>) who died of COVID-19 issues in 2020. Schlesinger had served as a creative advisor in the course of the creation of the Relentless Award in 2015.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Relentless Award\u2019s purpose is not just to honor Phil\u2019s and Adam\u2019s legacies, but to extend them through the launching of new works selected through the lens of their artistic sensibilities,\u201d mentioned choice committee chief David Bar Katz<\/a> in a press release. \u201cOur judges come together through this award to uplift artists whose work embodies Adam\u2019s and Phil\u2019s fearlessness, passion, humor, and relentless commitment to truth in art.\u201d<\/p>\n Grill and Chowder have written musicals concerning the physics of sunshine, the Armenian genocide, boys who eat grime, Nineteenth-century coal miners, and the e-book of Genesis. Their work has been seen or developed at Ars Nova<\/a>, New York Theatre Workshop<\/a>, SPACE on Ryder Farm<\/a>, and NYMF<\/a>. How the White Girl\u2026<\/em>is described as \u201can unabashedly nostalgic ode to the \u201990s, growing up gay, and the messiness of cultural memory.\u201d<\/p>\n The choice committee additionally acknowledged three finalists for the Relentless Musical Award: Hills On Fire<\/em> by\u00a0Joe Stevens and Keaton Wooden, Shoot for the Moon<\/em> by David Gomez and John-Michael Lyles, and XY<\/em> by\u00a0Oliver Houser.<\/p>\n The judges for the 2022 Relentless Musical Award included Rachel Bloom<\/a>,\u00a0James Iha,\u00a0Lynn Nottage<\/a>,\u00a0Thomas Bradshaw,\u00a0David Javerbaum,\u00a0Sam Hollander,\u00a0Brontez Purnell, and\u00a0Stephin Merrit.<\/p>\n