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Katori Hall Awarded Lark’s PONY Fellowship

Katori Hall
Katori Hall

The Lark Play Development Center has announced that playwright Katori Hall will be the 2009-10 PONY Fellow, with the benefits — valued at $80,000 — including housing in the PONY apartment in the heart of the theatre district in midtown Manhattan for one year, a living stipend, and artistic support from the Lark as a member of the Playwrights Workshop led by Arthur Kopit and advised by such playwrights as David Henry Hwang and Tina Howe.

Hall is currently at Juilliard and the playwright-in-residence at Woman’s Project. Her plays include Hoodoo Love, Remembrance, Hurt Village, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Mountaintop, On the Chitlin’ Circuit, Oreogirl, and Freedom Train.

In addition, a special PONY Jury Award of $5,000 was given to Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays (In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size, Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet) will play the McCarter Theatre later this month.

For more information, visit www.larktheatre.org.