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.”
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Middle school is a tough gig just ask singer/songwriter Jill Sobule.
She poured her experiences into a musical called “F ck7thGrade” that was presented in its initial form in Pittsburgh at City Theatre Company’s 2018 Momentum Festival of New Plays.
Now, City Theatre will premiere a concert film of the musical, available for on-demand streaming beginning on Monday.
Sobule is best known for the 1995 single “I Kissed a Girl” not the Katy Perry hit with the same name and for “Supermodel,” from the soundtrack of the 1995 film “Clueless.”
Her website describes her songs as “at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic.”
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