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WP Theater has awarded Lab residencies to fifteen theatre artists, including playwrights GETHSEMANE HERRON-COWARD, NAMBI E. KELLEY, Haruna Lee, ZIZI MAJID,and Daaimah Mubashshir.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced that DG member DAEL ORLANDERSMITH and Michael John Garcés have been awarded 2020 Doris Duke Awards for Excellence in Theatre.

The Jeff Awards have been presented annually since 1968 to honor achievement in Chicago theatre, with the organization adding a Non-Equity Wing to their awards in 1973. DG members nominated for the Jeff Awards’ 2020 Libby Adler Mages Award for New Work include LEE EDWARD COLSTON II for The First Deep Breath at...

Playwrights Christin Eve Cato, Julissa Contreras, Candice D’Meza, Shenny De Los Angeles, and DG Member RACHEL LYNETT have been chosen by Darrel Alejandro Holnes, the Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Pregones/PRTT as the recipients of the Greater Good Commission.

DG member STEPHANIE ALISON WALKER has been named the recipient of the 2019 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The Madres, which received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere in 2018.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB) presents their first Virtual Playmakers’ Intensive, May 25 through May 31. This workshop will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube Live with all performances beginning at 7:30 PM (EDT).