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The 2010 NEA New Play Development Program's Distinguished New Play grants have been announced. Five theaters will each receive a grant of $20,000 to support the early stages of development for a new play with strong potential to merit a full production.

The projects that have been awarded NEA funds include Tanya Saracho's The Albert Cashier Project (About Face Theatre, Chicago); Larissa FastHorse's Fancy Dancer (Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis); Tom Jacobson's West Hollywood Musical (Cornerstone Theater Company, Los Angeles); Emily Mann's Hoodwinked (McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton); and Danai Gurira's Zimbabwe Project (Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, Washington, DC).

The NEA grants will help to underwrite such development activities as dramaturgy, design workshops and consultations, read-throughs, public readings, workshop productions, and open rehearsals.