2010 Yale Drama Series Award announced
Olivier Award–winning playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Hare has selected blu by Virginia Grise as the 2010 winner of the annual Yale Drama Series competition. Grise will be awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000; her play bluwill be published by Yale University Press and receive a reading at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven in September. Chosen from 960 submissions, blu is about a Mexican American family’s response to the loss of their oldest son in Iraq.
The Yale Drama Series is jointly sponsored by Yale University Press and the Yale Repertory Theatre, with generous support from the David C. Horn Foundation. Submissions for the 2011 Yale Drama Series competition must be postmarked no earlier than June 1, 2010, and no later than August 15, 2010. The competition is open to any original, unpublished, and unproduced full-length play in English.
Two new musicals selected for Yale Institute for Music Theatre
Two original music theater works will receive two-week workshops in New Haven June 13–27 as part of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre. The Daughters, with music and libretto by Shaina Taub, and Stuck Elevator, with music by Byron Au Young and libretto by Aaron Jafferis, were chosen from this year’s applications to the program.
Established by the Yale School of Drama and the Yale School of Music, the Yale Institute For Music Theatre seeks to identify distinctive and original music theater works by emerging writers and composers, and to serve those writers by matching them with directors, music directors, and actors/singers who can help them further develop their work. By limiting production resources and values, the workshop keeps the focus on the creative process of the artistic team.
Design professor honored for “sustained excellence”
Tony Award winner Ming Cho Lee, cochair of the design department at the drama school, received the Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design at the 2010 Theatre Development Fund/Irene Sharaff Awards on April 23, in recognition of his distinguished career that has “become an example to all designers of the beauty, feeling, and empathy that a designer creates through true mastery of this art.”
The Theatre Development Fund, the largest not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts in the United States, was established in 1968 to foster works of artistic merit by supporting new productions and to broaden the audience for live theater and dance.
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