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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. 2008 STUDENT JANE CHAMBERS WINNER Good Egg by Dorothy Fortenberry
(Yale University). Good Egg explores the emotional and
ethical issues surrounding reproductive rights and genetic testing through
the story of Meg and Matt, two siblings, when Meg—who is the primary
caregiver to her brother Matt—decides to get pregnant and have her
embryos pre-screened for bi-polar disorder due to Matt’s struggle
with the illness. Dorothy Fortenberry’s plays include Good Egg,
Bibles and Candy, After the Flood, We’re Celebrities . . . We’re
Just Not Famous Yet, book and lyrics for the musical Bicycling for Ladies,
and the solo piece Paint Show. Her work has been developed at Arena Stage,
Ars Nova, Perishable Theatre, Studio 42, and The Tank, and produced by
Journeyman Productions and Vital Theatre Company. She served for two years
as an Artistic Associate of the Yale Cabaret, and has taught playwriting
in Washington, DC and New Haven, CT. She is the winner of the ASCAP Cole
Porter Prize in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and has been
nominated for the Weissberger Award and the Wasserstein Prize. 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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