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Subject: The 2008 Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards


The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards 2008

The National Student Playwriting Award
House Full of Letters by Kit Steinkellner
UCLA

The National Finalists of the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play
Dust by Rob Smith, Carnegie-Mellon University
dReamtRippin' by Thomas Michael Campbell, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Burying Barbie by Christopher Dimond, Carnegie-Mellon University

The National Finalists of the KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award
Without Parachutes by Eric Levitz, Johns Hopkins University
Sharing This Room With You by Nicholas Schwab, University of Wyoming
Parkersburg by Laura Jacqmin, Ohio University
Cold Soup by Christin Siems, Southern Methodist University
The Professor by Rocio Carolina Rios Schaaf, Suffolk University

The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award
The Aperture by Sean Christopher Lewis, University of Iowa

2nd place
House Full of Letters by Kit Steinkellner, UCLA

Honorable Mention
Herschel in History by Cary Gitter, NYU

The Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award
Sick by Zayd Dohrn
NYU

The David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
Elephant's Graveyard by George Brant
University of Texas at Austin

2nd Place
Jimmy Cory, Kevin Daly
Indiana University

3rd Place
Sow\and Weep by Nitzan Halperin
Boston University

The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award
Donalyn Elder's Mythology of Grass, Part I: Miracle on Monroe
by Jerome Augustus Parker
UCLA

2nd place
Inked Baby by Christina Anderson, Brown University

Honorable Mentions
Fati's Last Dance by France-Luce Benson, Carnegie-Mellon University
The Strangest Fruit by Ronald McCants, University of California-San Diego


The Quest for Peace Playwriting Award
Beautiful American Soldier by Dano Madden
Rutgers University
Premiered at The University of Tulsa

2nd Place
The Near East, Alex Lewin
University of California- San Diego

The National Science Playwriting Award
the outstanding student-written play on issues surrounding Global Warming
Twenty Moments in the Space Between by Jennifer Fawcett, University of Iowa

2nd Place
The Attic Dwellers by Jennifer Barclay Newsham, University of
California-San Diego

(Next year's award: to the outstanding student-written play concerning
Women in Modern Science 1928-2008)


The Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
Well Plotted by Stephen Lewis, Catholic University of America

2nd place
Burying Barbie by Christopher Dimond, Carnegie-Mellon University

The Paula Vogel Playwriting Award
Good Worker by Isaac Holter, The Theatre School of DePaul University

2nd place
The Devil's Teacup by Nathan Warren Lane, Playwrights' Theatre of
Boston University

The KCACTF Latino Playwriting Award
Aurora by Leonard Madrid, University of New Mexico

2nd Place
Blu  by Virginia Grise, California Institute of the Arts

The KCACTF Musical Theatre Award
Dani Girl Book and Lyrics by Christopher Dimond, Music by Michael Kooman
Carnegie-Mellon University

2nd place
Strange Day and Newscast by Aaron Fischer and Rebekah Melocik,
University of Southern California

The KCACTF Theater for Young Audiences Award
Katrina: the Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back by Jason Tremblay
University of Texas at Austin

And

Ashes, Ashes by Eve Tulbert
University of Texas at Austin




Gregg Henry, Artistic Director
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington DC
ghenry at kennedy-center.org






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