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NEW YORK CITY: <\/strong>The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize<\/a>\u00a0has introduced 10\u00a0finalists\u00a0for its prestigious playwriting award, the oldest and largest worldwide prize awarded to girls+ playwrights. Chosen from a gaggle of over 190 performs nominated from world wide, the\u00a02023 finalists\u00a0are Anupama Chandrasekhar\u00a0(India)\u00a0for The Father and the Assassin<\/em>, Maryam Hamidi\u00a0(U.Okay.)\u00a0for Moonset<\/em>, Karen Hartman<\/a>\u00a0(U.S.)\u00a0for New Golden Age<\/em>, Katie Holly\u00a0(Ireland)\u00a0for Her Hand on the Trellis<\/em>, Kimber Lee<\/a>\u00a0(U.S.)\u00a0for saturday<\/em>, Sarah Mantell<\/a>\u00a0(U.S.)\u00a0for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot<\/em>, a.okay. payne\u00a0(U.S.) for\u00a0Amani<\/em>, Francisca Da Silveira\u00a0(U.S.)\u00a0Pay No Worship<\/em>, Zadie Smith\u00a0(U.Okay.)\u00a0for The Wife of Willesden<\/em>, and Ruby Thomas\u00a0(U.Okay.) for\u00a0Linck & M\u00fclhahn<\/em>.<\/p>\n The submitting theatres of this 12 months\u2019s finalists are 59E59<\/a> (NYC), Hampstead Theatre<\/a> (London), Kiln Theatre<\/a> (London), Ma-Yi Theater Company<\/a> (NYC), Mermaid Arts Center<\/a> (Co. Wicklow, Ireland), National Black Theatre<\/a> (NYC), Playwrights Horizons<\/a> (NYC), The Citizens Theatre<\/a> (Glasgow), and The Public Theater<\/a> (NYC).<\/p>\n The winner, who can be named on the award presentation and forty fifth\u00a0anniversary celebration on March 27 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, will obtain a money prize of $25,000 in addition to a restricted version signed print by famend artist Willem de Kooning, created particularly for the Prize.\u00a0Each of the extra finalists will obtain awards of $5,000.<\/p>\n Based in Chennai, India, Anupama Chandrasekhar was the primary worldwide playwright-in-residence on the National Theatre, London, and a Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellow on the University of Chichester. Her performs have been translated into a number of languages and staged at main venues in India, Europe, and North America.\u00a0The Father and the Assassin<\/em>\u00a0opened on the National Theatre\u2019s Olivier Stage in London and was nominated for greatest play and greatest actor on the current London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. <\/p>\n Maryam Hamidi is a author for stage, display and radio, following an extended profession as an actor.\u00a0Born in Iran and raised in England, she has lived in Scotland for over 20 years. Maryam acquired the Playwright\u2019s Studio Scotland New Playwright\u2019s Award to develop\u00a0Moonset<\/em>, presently premiering in a manufacturing by the Citizens Theatre introduced on the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Maryam likes to collide genres to un-crack the enjoyment, ache and messiness of immigrant expertise, matrilineal ties and energy imbalances. <\/p>\n Karen Hartman\u2019s work launched VOLT at 59e59 Theaters in 2022, in an unprecedented competition of three simultaneous Off-Broadway premieres by a single creator:\u00a0New Golden Age\u00a0<\/em>(Primary Stages);\u00a0The Lucky Star\u00a0<\/em>(The Directors Company); and\u00a0Goldie, Max & Milk<\/em>\u00a0(MBL Productions). Also in 2022, the musical\u00a0Rattlesnake Kate<\/em>, e-book by Hartman, rating by Neyla Pekarek, gained eight Henry Awards together with Best New Play or Musical.<\/p>\n Katie Holly\u2019s first three performs,\u00a0Marion\u00a0<\/em>(2016), Sharon\u00a0<\/em>(2017), and\u00a0Crowman\u00a0<\/em>(2018), premiered at Cork Midsummer Festival and toured regionally and nationally.\u00a0Sharon<\/em>\u00a0was recorded and broadcast as a radio play on Ireland\u2019s nationwide broadcaster RTE Radio 1 and gained a New York Festival Silver Award for \u2018Best Digital Drama\u2019 in 2019.\u00a0She was commissioned by Cork County Council to put in writing and produce\u00a0Crossword (<\/em>Bealtaine Festival 2019) and\u00a0Pageant<\/em>\u00a0(Cork Culture Night 2020).<\/p>\n Kimber Lee\u2019s performs embody\u00a0the water palace\u00a0<\/em>(2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Special Commendation),\u00a0to the yellow home<\/em>\u00a0(La Jolla Playhouse),\u00a0untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play<\/em>\u00a0(2019 Bruntwood Prize International Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist, upcoming World Premiere at Royal Exchange Theatre and Young Vic, UK),\u00a0saturday<\/em>\u00a0(Colorado New Play Summit),\u00a0tokyo fish story\u00a0<\/em>(South Coast Rep, TheatreWorks\/SV, Old Globe),\u00a0brownsville music (b-side for tray)<\/em>(Humana Festival, LCT3, Long Wharf Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, Moxie Theatre, Shotgun Players), and\u00a0completely different phrases for a similar factor<\/em>\u00a0directed by Neel Keller (Center Theatre Group).<\/p>\n Sarah Mantell\u2019s performs embody\u00a0Everything That Never Happened<\/em>,\u00a0The Good Guys<\/em>,\u00a0Tiny<\/em>,\u00a0In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot<\/em>, and\u00a0Fight Call<\/em>. They have been produced and developed on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena, Playwrights Horizons, The Playwrights Realm, Artists Repertory Theatre, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The Yale Cabaret, and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Sarah is beneath fee with Playwrights Horizons and Geva Theatre Center and has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Wildacres, Hedgebrook, Jentel, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, in addition to a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, Toulmin grant, Edgerton Foundation grant, and first runner-up for the Leah Ryan FEWW award.<\/p>\n A.okay. payne is a playwright, artist-theorist, and theatermaker with roots in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Amani\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>premiere is presently operating via March 5 in a co-production by the National Black Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.\u00a0Payne\u2019s work has been finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, winner of the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, and 3x semi-finalist for the O\u2019Neill National Playwriting Conference.<\/p>\n Francisca Da Silveira is a Cape Verdean American playwright and Boston native whose performs have been developed with Theatre 503 (London), the Traverse Theatre, Company One Theatre (Boston), The Fire This Time Festival (New York), the Playwrights Realm (New York), the Public Theater, the New Group, Colt Coeur, and La Jolla Playhouse.\u00a0Not-For-Profit (Or The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Play)<\/em>\u00a0was featured within the Playwrights\u2019 Realm\u2019s INK\u2019D Festival in 2021 and in La Jolla Playhouse\u2019s DNA New Works Series in 2021.\u00a0Pay No Worship<\/em>\u00a0will obtain a world premiere manufacturing at Philadelphia\u2019s InterAct Theatre Company in spring 2023.<\/p>\n Zadie\u00a0Smith is a novelist and essayist born in North London to an English father and a Jamaican mom. Her books embody White Teeth<\/em>, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time<\/em>. She has additionally printed three collections of essays\u2014Changing My Mind<\/em>, Feel Free<\/em>, and\u00a0Intimations<\/em>\u2014and a group of brief tales, Grand Union.\u00a0<\/em>Her first play The Wife of Willesden<\/em>, which debuted at London\u2019s Kiln Theatre in 2021, is a reimagining of\u00a0the Wife of Bath\u2019s Tale\u00a0from\u00a0Geoffrey Chaucer\u2019s\u00a0The Canterbury Tales<\/em>.\u00a0The manufacturing will play within the U.S. at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., then at Brooklyn Academy of Music, starting in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ruby Thomas is an actor and author from London. Her performs\u00a0Either\u00a0<\/em>(2019) and\u00a0The Animal Kingdom\u00a0<\/em>(2022) have been produced by Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and her brief play\u00a0Romy & Me\u00a0<\/em>was a part of the Living Newspaper on the Royal Court (2020). She was chosen for the Channel 4 Playwrights\u2019 Scheme (2020), acquired a Jerwood Commission from the Royal Court (2021) and was nominated for the George Devine Award (2022) for\u00a0Linck & M\u00fclhahn<\/em>. The premiere manufacturing of\u00a0Linck & M\u00fclhahn\u00a0<\/em>is presently operating via March 4 at Hampstead Theatre.<\/p>\n Founded in 1978, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is awarded yearly to have a good time\u00a0girls+\u00a0who’ve written excellent works for the English-speaking theatre. Women+ consists of girls, transgender, and non-binary playwrights. An worldwide panel of six judges chooses the successful play from among the many finalists.<\/p>\n The judges for the forty fifth Susan Smith Blackburn Prize\u00a0are author\u00a0Julia Cho<\/a>\u00a0(U.S.) (earlier winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for\u00a0The Language Archive<\/em>),\u00a0<\/em>stage director\u00a0Rebecca Frecknall\u00a0(U.Okay.), choreographer\/director\u00a0Raja\u00a0Feather Kelly<\/a>\u00a0(U.S.), theatrical producer\u00a0and president of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT)\u00a0Eleanor Lloyd\u00a0(U.Okay.),celebrated actor\/director\/author\u00a0Lucian Msamati\u00a0(U.Okay.), and stage and display actor Amy Ryan\u00a0(U.S.).<\/p>\n