Jamie Pachino Wins 2009 Primus Prize

Jamie Pachino has won the 2009 Francesca Primus Prize for her play Splitting Infinity. The award, presented by the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation and the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA), is presented annually to a woman theater artist and includes a $10,000 cash prize.

Splitting Infinity focuses on a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist, who pursues evidence of God through physics, and who must navigate intricate relationships with a rabbi and young graduate student.

The play was commissioned by the Steppenwolf Theatre and premiered at the Geva Theatre. Subsequent productions have been seen at San Jose Rep and Florida Stage, among others. Pachino’s other plays include Waving Goodbye, The Return to Morality, Aurora’s Motive, and Race.

Along with news of the prize, it’s been announced that Jennifer Haley and Kathryn Walat have won Primus Citations for their plays Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and Bleeding Kansas, respectively.