Dan O’Brien and Suzan-Lori Parks Named 2014 Recipients of the Horton Foote Prize
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Dan O’Brien and Suzan-Lori Parks have been awarded 2014 Horton Foote Prizes for their plays The Body of an American and Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3), respectively. O'Brien received the prize for Outstanding New American Play, and Parks was honored with the prize for Promising New American Play. The prize awards excellence in American theater.
O’Brien and Parks will be honored at a private reception on October 6 at The Lotos Club in New York City. Each playwright will be presented with $15,000 and a limited edition of Keith Carter’s iconic photograph of Horton Foote, which is found in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
O'Brien was nominated by Portland Center Stage, and Parks was nominated by The Public Theater. Fifty-eight resident theaters throughout the country were invited to submit a produced or unproduced play for consideration. Nominated playwrights must be the author of a minimum of four original full-length plays that have been fully produced by professional theaters.
