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The Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Contest 2009 The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award recognizes plays & performance texts created by women that present a feminist perspective & contain significant opportunities for female performers. This annual award is given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers who, through her plays A Late Snow, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, My Blue Heaven, Kudzu, & The Quintessential Image, became a major feminist voice in American theater. Sponsored by the Women and Theater Program with generous support from the Association for Theater in Higher Education, private donors, and Georgetown University, the Jane Chambers winner receives $1000 and a rehearsed reading of the winning play at ATHE’s annual conference. Click here for Submission Guidelines for the 2009 contest. 2007 STUDENT JANE CHAMBERS WINNER CONFESSIONS OF A RELUCTANT CAREGIVER by Merri Biechler (M.F.A. Program, Ohio University). This moving play chronicles the writer’s experience as caregiver to her mother and father before their deaths due to cancer. Selected as a Kendeda Finalist, Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver has received readings in New York and Atlanta, and will participate in the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab. Biechler, whose The Bathtub Playwon the 2005 Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award, brings a professional background in acting and was a founding member of the Edge Theater, together with Peter Hedges, Mary-Louise Parker and Joe Mantello, her undergraduate classmates. For more information on Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver, contact <merri.biechler@gmail.com>. Jane Chambers Selection Committee Maya Roth, Georgetown University, Chair Priscilla Page, New WORLD Theater, Univ. Mass-Amherst, Co- Chair Jen-Scott Mobley, CUNY, Student Contest Chair Maria Beach, Freelance Dramaturg, Austin-TX Kimberly Dark, Touring Artist & Teacher, San Diego Sara Chambers, Bowling Green State University Season Ellison, Student, Bowling Green State University Sara Freeman, Illinois Wesleyan University Marietta Hedges, Catholic University Rebecca Hewitt, Student, University of Texas at Austin Erith Jaffe-Berg, University of California-Riverside Frazer Lively, Wesleyan College Piia Mustamaki, Student, Rutgers University Ken Nielsen, Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY Graduate Center Janice Perry, Touring Artist & Independent Scholar, Vermont Erika Rundle, Mount Holyoke College Sarah Sexton, Actors Theatre of Louisville Sophia Skiles, Mount Holyoke College Gretchen Smith, Southern Methodist University Arden Thomas, Stanford University Michele Volansky, Washington College Chris Woodworth, Lock Haven University
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