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    The Playwrights Company (1938–1961) was an American theatrical production company. Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert...
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  • and showcase works by Pittsburgh playwrights, ranging from August Wilson and George Kaufman to new unknown playwrights, and to "nurture a racially and...
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    the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets. The earliest playwrights in Western...
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  • Playwrights' Company Time Remembered (1957) - producer via the Playwrights' Company The Rope Dancers (1957) - producer via the Playwrights' Company Silent...
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  • Theodore Ward (category African-American dramatists and playwrights)
    writer, Ward composed more than thirty plays and co-founded the Negro Playwrights Company with Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Richard Wright. His best known...
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  • romantic comedy written by Samuel A. Taylor and produced by the Playwrights' Company. It ran on Broadway for a total of 318 performances, opening at the...
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    by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Playwrights Horizons' auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated...
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    Sidney Howard (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
    the Playwrights' Company founded in his honor the Sidney Howard Memorial Award. The award consisted of a prize of $1500 given to a young playwright without...
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    counterculture. It regularly staged works by playwrights associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. The modernist stage company The Living Theatre was in residence...
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  • off-broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons. The theater school was founded in 1983 when New York University approached then Playwrights Horizons artistic...
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    S. and The Culture Project. The company is also known for its "Tuesdays@9" cold reading series, where new playwrights, novelists, short-story writers...
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  • "Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award 2007". Australian Stage Online. 23 August 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2023. "Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award: Winners...
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  • in the Dark as an influence. Dream Girl was first produced by the Playwrights' Company, of which Rice was a member, with the author directing his then wife...
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  • the traveling theater group the Chicago Uptown Circuit Players and Playwrights Company and on Broadway with the Helen Hayes Repertory Theater. In 1963,...
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  • Playwrights Canada Press is a Canadian publishing house founded in 1984 by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. It was incorporated in 2000 as an independent...
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  • writer Tom Stoppard has won this award five times, more than any other playwright. Only seven other writers (Arthur Miller, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner...
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  • Sidney Howard Memorial Award (category Dramatist and playwright awards)
    short-lived theater prize established in 1939 by the Playwrights' Company. It was designed to support new playwrights who had no notable successes but had shown...
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    Theatre's production of King Henry IV in 1939. In 1940 he acted with the Playwrights' Company in Brooklyn. In addition to acting on stage, Genge directed Hamlet...
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    Toby Schmitz (category Australian dramatists and playwrights)
    Australian National Playwrights' Centre/New Dramatists Award for Chicks Will Dig You 2003 Shortlisted for the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award for Chicks...
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    The Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective was a group of professional women playwrights in New York active from 1971 to 1975. They wrote and produced...
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    of Randall Arney. Steppenwolf is an ensemble cast theatre company with actors, playwrights, producers, and directors in its membership. Notable past and...
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    Playwrights' Center is a non-profit theatre organization focused on both supporting playwrights and promoting new plays to production at theaters. It...
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  • from November 27, 1939 to February 24, 1940. It was produced by the Playwrights' Company and staged by Guthrie McClintic, with scenic design created by noted...
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  • The Hour-Glass. The company acquired rooms at 34 Lower Camden St., which they turned into a small theatre. In 1903 the playwrights and most of the actors...
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  • 2012 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and ran from August through October 2013 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, commissioned...
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  • professional theatre company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Plan-B develops and produces unique and socially conscious theatre created by Utah playwrights, and is a resident...
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  • Jonathan Marc Sherman (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
    1968) is an American playwright, poet, and actor. He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before...
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  • Padua Playwrights Productions, or Padua, is a Los Angeles-based theater company founded in 1978 by playwright and poet Murray Mednick and John Woodruff...
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  • William Shakespeare and other classics, with occasional works by modern playwrights. Most of Gorilla Rep's productions are performed outdoors, in various...
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  • Barrymore Theatre on September 30, 1953, in a production by The Playwrights' Company, directed by Elia Kazan with scenic and lighting design by Jo Mielziner...
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