Archives: Playwriting Award Winner

Evelyn in Purgatory

Five public school teachers are caught in the limbo of the disciplinary “Rubber Room,” waiting for their cases to be heard and their fates decided. Poignant and funny drama, it’s like The Breakfast Club for teachers, as thy share secrets with each other and begin to look into their own hearts. Winner of the 2012 Essential […]

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Slaying Holofernes

2019 | By: Emily McClain | Directed By: Peter Hardy | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

World premiere opens Friday, July 26, 2019 This passionate and provocative drama spans four centuries as it tells the tales of two remarkable young women: Amanda, struggling for justice and recognition in the offices of modern-day Atlanta, and the amazing true story of Artemesia Gentileschi, a painter in Renaissance Italy who took her rapist to trial. A […]

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Babyshower for the Antichrist

2019 | By: Ben Thorpe | Directed By: Shannon Eubanks | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

by Ben Thorpe, directed by Shannon Eubanks. World premiere opens Friday, August 2, 2019. A horror comedy about a small group of incompetent devil-worshippers who are preparing for the birth of the Dark Lord when an newcomer arrives, thinking she’s been invited to an old friend’s baby shower. Girl talk and plans for the “Hell Feast” […]

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Qualities of Starlight

2010 | By: Gabriel Jason Dean | Directed By: Peter Hardy | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

The World Premiere of a twisted family comedy about a successful young astronomer who brings his wife home to the north Georgia mountains and the simple country household in which he grew up and where his parents are now addicted to crystal meth. Winner of the 2010 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award.

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A Thousand Circlets

2011 | By: Theroun D'Arcy Patterson | Directed By: Betty Hart | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

A classic new American drama which tells the story of a prominent African-American family that has reached the pinnacle of their professional success, poised to achieve their greatest triumph – only to face the threat of having it all torn down by the illness of the father and the passions of the past. Winner of […]

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Stray Dogs

2013 | By: Matthew Myers | Directed By: Peter Hardy | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

Stray Dogs,written by Matthew Myers and directed by Peter Hardy, is a comedy-romance about cops and criminals – sort of like Quentin Tarentino only much sweeter.

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Built to Float

2018 | By: Rachel Graf Evans | Directed By: Peter Hardy | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

The magical realist tale of two sisters, trying not to drown in the haunted legacy of their troubled family. by Rachel Graf Evans directed by Peter Hardy World Premiere opens Friday, July 27, 2018. Built to Float press kit This is the story of Tess, who quietly crusades to keep it together, working full time […]

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Woke

2018 | By: Avery Sharpe | Directed By: Ellen McQueen | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

By Avery Sharpe Directed by Ellen McQueen World Premiere opens Friday, August 3, 2018. Woke follows two friends from different backgrounds who are trying to navigate the already rocky transition from high school to college. When a calamitous event captures national attention, they are forced to wrestle with their different understandings of social awareness. Through […]

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World Premiere: ANOTHER MOTHER

2017 | By: G. M. Lupo | Directed By: Peter Hardy | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

By G. M. Lupo Directed by Peter Hardy ANOTHER MOTHER press kit with photos World premiere opens August 4, 2017 Winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award, this play follows the journey of Genevieve as she pieces together the mysterious identities and relationships between her biological mother, her birth mother and the mother who […]

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When Things Are Lost

2016 | By: Derek Dixon | Directed By: Amber Bradshaw | Georgia Playwright, Playwriting Award Winner, World Premiere

Click here for an interview with Derek Dixon If someone you loved went missing, how far would you go to find them? A man goes on a dream quest to figure out what happened to his best friend, who seems to have disappeared. Derek Dixon’s WHEN THINGS ARE LOST is a funny and moving play about […]

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