Virginia Grise

NEW: 2009-10 Jerome Fellow Virginia Grise has received the 2010 Pierre Cardin Theater Award from the Princess Grace Foundation. More

Karen Hartman

NEW: Core Writer Karen Hartman's Goldie, Max, and Milk, developed at the Playwrights' Center in 2007, will receive a National New Play Network rolling world premiere at Florida Stage, Jewish Theatre San Francisco, and Phoenix Theater.

Kevin Anthony Kautzman

NEW: Iris, adapted by 2009-10 Jerome Fellow Kevin Anthony Kautzman from Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0, will premiere at Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis this October. More

--Players Guild Theatre will premiere Kevin Anthony Kautzman's Then Waves in its New Play Conservatory this summer. The play was developed in the 2009-10 Ruth Easton New Play Series. More

--Kevin Anthony Kautzman has received a Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin. The prestigious program provides a three-year, full-time residency with remission of all required tuition and fees, a $25,000 fellowship, and up to $6,000 in personal development funds. More

John Olive

--Sideways Stories from Wayside School, adapted by Core Writer and Playwrights' Center co-founder John Olive, has upcoming productions at Springer Opera House, South Coast Repertory, and Raleigh Little Theater.

--Jason and the Golden Fleece will run at Nashville Children's Theater January 18-February 6, 2011.

--The Magic Bicycle, commissioned by First Stage Children's Theater in WI, will have its world premiere there in January 2011.

Adam Kraar

--Core Writer Adam Kraar's play Empire of the Trees has been nominated for Outstanding Full-Length Script by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. More

Rhiana Yazzie

--Pangea World Theater produced the world premiere of Ady by 2009-10 Jerome Fellow Rhiana Yazzie. More

Janet Allard

--Pool Boy, by Core and Jerome Alum Janet Allard, was produced by Barrington Stage Company in MA. More

Peter Gil-Sheridan

--What May Fall, by Jerome Alum Peter Gil-Sheridan, was produced by Fordham Alumni Theatre Company in New York. More

Sherry Kramer

--Core Alum Sherry Kramer's When Something Wonderful Ends will run September 1-5 at the Dorset Theatre Festival. More

Catherine Filloux

--Dog and Wolf had a reading August 14 by Still Waters in a Storm as "part of an innovative tour by the playwright to bring a theater experience to areas where theatergoing isn't necessarily part of the everyday culture, and to focus on the neighborhood's feelings and concerns surrounding issues raised in the play." Dog and Wolf was developed in the 2008-09 Ruth Easton New Play Series. More

Lee Blessing

--Lee Blessing's Wood for the Fire is one of twelve plays composing Tricycle Theatre's epic The Great Game: Afghanistan, which played to rave reviews in London last year and will tour the United States this summer. More

--Interact Theatre Company's production of When We Go Upon the Sea ran at 59E59 in New York through July 3. More

--When We Go Upon the Sea, developed in the Playwrights' Center's Ruth Easton New Play Series in 2008, had its world premiere at the Interact Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA in April and May. More

Monica Raymond

--Jerome Alum Monica Raymond's radio play The Telemarketer was produced by San Francisco's Shoestring Radio Theatre. More

Andrew Kramer

--A Map of Our Country, by Core Apprentice Andrew Kramer, ran at the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in July. More

Kristoffer Diaz

--The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has commissioned Kristoffer Diaz to write a play for its decade-long commissioning, production, and public dialogue initiative American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. More

--Jerome Fellow Kristoffer Diaz was named a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. More

Jeremy Kareken

--Sweet, Sweet Motherhood, by Jeremy Kareken in collaboration with Prof. Lee M. Silver, had its world premiere at HERE Arts Center, directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon. The play was co-commissioned by the Playwrights' Center and Guthrie Theater and was featured in PlayLabs 2006. More

Cory Hinkle

--Cory Hinkle's The Killing of Michael X, A New Film by Celia Wallace was featured in Playwrights Foundation's 2010 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. More

Dan Dietz

Carlyle Brown

--Carlyle Brown received a 2010 Otto Rene Castillo Award for political theater. More

Mat Smart

--Mat Smart's Samuel J. and K., developed at the Center in 2009, was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. More

--The 13th of Paris had its Southeastern Premiere at the Warehouse Theatre in South Carolina May 7-23. More

Stephanie Fleischmann

--The Secret Lives of Coats, written by Stephanie Fleischmann and composer Christina Campanella and developed at the Playwrights' Center at PlayLabs 2008 and in October 2008, was produced by Whitman College in Washington in May. More

Susan Miller

--Anyone But Me, the webseries co-written and co-produced by Core Writer Susan Miller, is a Webby Official Honoree in the categories of Writing and Drama! It also nabbed a Streamy for the performance of actress Rachael Hip-Flores.

Karen Zacarias

--Legacy of Light completed a run at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. More

--Core Writer Karen Zacarias has received a Steinberg Citation for her play Legacy of Light. More

Winter Miller

--In Darfur, a collaboration between playwright Winter Miller and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, ran through April 18 at Theater J in Washington, D.C. The play was co-commissioned by the Playwrights' Center and developed in PlayLabs 2006. More

Allison Moore

--Allison Moore's Collapse, developed at the Playwrights' Center in fall 2009, will premiere at the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, CA from January 28-March 6, 2011 as part of the National New Play Network program. It will then go on to Curious Theatre Company in Denver, CO and Kitchen Dog Theater Company in Dallas, TX. More

Tom Poole

--Tom Poole's Safe as Houses, read at the Playwrights' Center in fall 2009, ran at Joking Envelope in Minneapolis, MN, April 1-17. More

Kira Obolensky

--Kira Obolensky's Hiding in the Open, based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Sabina Zimering, was produced by the History Theatre in St. Paul, MN. The production was directed by Playwrights' Center Resident Director and Lab Producer Hayley Finn. More