Finalists Named for Humanitas/CTG Playwriting Prize

Center Theatre Group has announced the 10 finalists who have been chosen for the first annual Humanitas/CTG Playwriting Prize. The award will be given to the best new and unproduced play written by a Southern California playwright.

The finalists and their selected works are Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief), Linda Bannister and James E. Hurd Jr. (Turpentine Jake), Aleta Barthell (Window of Shame), Louisa Hill (Lord of the Underworld’s Home for Unwed Mothers), Jennifer Lane (Harlowe), David Myers (How to Conquer America: A Mostly True History of Yogurt), Dan O’Brien (Scarsdale), Steve Totland (You Are Here), Stephanie Alison Walker (The Madres), and Marlow Wyatt (SHE).

The winning playwright will receive a $5,000 cash prize and an additional $5,000 will be given to a Southern California theater to subsidize the play’s world-premiere production. Two runners-up will each be awarded a cash prize of $2,000. The winning and runner-up plays will be developed with CTG’s literary staff, led by CTG’s Director of New Play Development Pier Carlo Talenti, and presented in staged readings at the Kirk Douglas Theatre Rehearsal Room from February 12-14, 2016.

Winners will be announced January 11.