Directed by Anita Montgomery
March 12-13, 2011
In The Bullitt Cabaret
Running Time: 2 hours

A catapult for new theatrical work, sending amazing plays into the national spotlight. Now, for the seventh year, ACT's New Play Award provides an emerging playwright a personal artist's grant of $2,500, a 10 day workshop with actors, director and dramaturge at ACT, plus a weekend of FREE public readings and discussions with the playwright and director.

This year's winner is Emily Schwend, for her play South of Settling.

In an increasingly loud, volatile and histrionic social landscape, Schwend's subtle, gentle portrait of quiet strength, endurance and purposeful generosity in small town middle America pinpoints a human need; to listen intently for fear of missing life's grace notes.     

Past Recipients of the New Play Award 
2010 - David Weiner - Extraordinary Chambers (produced at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in 2011)
2009 - Zakiyyah Alexander - Sweet Maladies (presented by The Hansberry Project)
2008 - Yussef El Guindi - Language Rooms (produced at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2010 - and see El Guindi's newest world premiere, Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, on ACT's Mainstage in 2011!)
2006 - Laura Schellhardt - The K of D (produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 2011)
2005 - Elizabeth Heffron - Mitzi's Abortion (produced at ACT in 2006)

A Central Heating Lab Event