History Matters awards North Central College student with Judith Barlow Prize Gelaine Vestal Updated 4/29/2021 1:55 PM History Matters: Celebrating Women's Plays of the Past, a New York City nonprofit, has announced the winner for this year's Judith Barlow Prize. The annual prize is awarded to a student playwright for an exceptional one-act play inspired by the work of an historic female playwright. The first-place winner of the prize receives a $2,500 award and a reading of their work along with a $500 award to the participating professor. North Central College's Gelaine Vestal won for the student's play, "The Shop," inspired by Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal" and sponsored by professor Laura Lodewyck. A reading will be scheduled and announced in the coming months.