Deb Margolin Wins Kesselring Prize for Playwriting

By: Nov. 29, 2005
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Nearly 200 avid theatre fans packed the National Arts Club in NYC on Sunday, November 20th for the 25th annual presentation of the Club's annual $15,000 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting to Deb Margolin, author of the play Three Seconds in the Key.

Prior to the presentation of the award during a banquet ceremony, an 8 member cast performed a staged reading of Three Seconds in the Key, Margolin's play about a terminally ill mother and her son, who while away the hours watching pro basketball on TV. Susan Greenhill, Edwin Lee Gibson, Michael Potts, Jeremy Bobb, C.K. Allen, Frank Mayers, Craig Alan Edwards and Malcolm Morano comprised the cast.

Michael Parva, artistic director of The Directors Company, directed the staged reading of Three Seconds in the Key for the National Arts Club.

Also on hand at the Kesselring awards program was playwright Tanya Barfield, who received the Kesselring's Honorable Mention, a prize worth $5,000.

Each year the National Arts Club bestows its Kesselring Prize (named after Joseph Kesselring, author of the ever popular play Harvey) on a playwright of exceptional promise who has yet to receive prominent national attention. Past recipients include Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, David Auburn, Melissa James Gibson, Nicky Silver and David Lindsay Abaire.

For more information about the Kesselring Prize and the National Arts Club, call 212 475 3424.

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