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Chances are the next Broadway hit will have originated at a regional theater taking a risk on an untested playwright. But once those playwrights are established, many of them start writing for TV. ....
The workplace comedy explores how each employee feels about their co-workers, customers, the around-the-clock work schedule, the corporate owner and the gentrifying neighborhood. ....
UpdatedFri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:16 am ET Reply (Full disclosure Cindi Sansone-Braff is my wife. Lucky me) Long Island born and raised successful Playwright Cindi Sansone-Braff has been almost fifty years in the making. Cindi graduated with honors from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in acting, directing, and playwriting. This last year due to Covid a new type of playwriting has evolved, Zoom Plays, and Cindi started writing them. Along with her new zoom plays Cindi had a very productive year having her plays produced. To the Zoom and Back,(for zoom) The Karma Bums, and Welcome to the House of Karma received stage readings by the Fishlicker Improv group in 2020. To the Zoom and Back, actually shared winning Audience Favorite Award, of the Think Fast Theater Festival 2021 and now it is a winner in the 2nd Act Players Spring 2021 Script Competition. No Rest for a Soul is in the Equity Library Theater Festi ....
Amy Crider, a Chicago playwright, is the winner of the sixth annual University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize, which comes with a $10,000 advance and a contract to publish in fall 2021, the University of New Orleans Press announced Wednesday. Crider won the Lab competition with her psychological thriller “Disorder”, which took shape from Crider’s personal experience. “In 1992, as a young woman, I had a fierce battle with bipolar disorder,” Crider said. “I experienced particularly paranoid mania. I was often lucid, of course, and I found myself thinking, ‘It’s a good thing I’m not involved in a murder right now, or I’d really be in trouble!’ I knew I wanted to write that story someday.” ....