In Ryan's play, when single mother Christine meets Gabriel, one of the "lost boys" from Sudan, in the produce section of a Pittsburgh Whole Foods where he works, the two form a relationship that changes both their lives.

Ryan was selected by a nationwide committee of critics, which also announced an additional commendation to playwright Dominique Morisseau for Follow Me to Nellie's, her portrait of how a Mississippi brothel and its outspoken madam become entwined in the civil rights struggle to register black voters in 1955.

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