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Ariel Stess Wins 2025 Yale Drama Series Prize For KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA
by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2025

Playwright Ariel Stess will receive one of the world’s most prestigious playwriting awards, the Yale Drama Series Prize, for her play, KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA.

Jeremy O. Harris Reveals 2024 Yale Drama Series Winner Keegon Schuett's THIS DRY SPELL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 23, 2024

Jeremy O. Harris has revealed Keegon Schuett as the 2024 Yale Drama Series winner for the play THIS DRY SPELL. Schuett will be honored for his work that captures the magic in everyday life. Learn more.

Jeremy O. Harris Selects 2023 Yale Drama Prize Winner, BATTHOUSE
by Stephi Wild - Mar 17, 2023

The 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world's most prestigious playwriting awards, now in its sixteenth year, will be presented to Jesús I. Valles for their new American play, Batthouse, a new work that was selected from more than 1,500 entries.

Jeremy O. Harris Announced as Next Presiding Playwright for 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 10, 2022

The 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize has chosen Jeremy O. Harris, the Yale alum and Tony-nominated author of Slave Play, as the presiding playwright for its landmark 15th anniversary year. As his first order of business, Harris is assembling an international group of readers to help evaluate submissions as part of a larger effort to infuse the process with a more global point-of-view.

JAR OF FAT by Seayoung Yim Announced as Winner of 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 23, 2022

The 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious playwriting prizes, will be awarded to Seayoung Yim for her play Jar of Fat.

Rachel Lynett's APOLOGIES TO LORRAINE HANSBERRY (YOU TOO AUGUST WILSON) Wins 14th Annual Yale Drama Series Prize
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 8, 2021

This year the Yale Drama Series Prize once again saw a robust and talented group of applicants dedicated to writing for the theater, receiving over 2050 submissions from 60 countries.

Lily Padilla's HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF Wins Yale Drama Series Prize
by Julie Musbach - Mar 1, 2019

One of the theater world's most prestigious playwriting prizes, the Yale Drama Series Prize, will be given to Lily Padilla for her play How to Defend Yourself. The 2019 award recipient was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. The winning play will receive a private staged reading at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theater in the fall.

10th Annual Yale Drama Series Award Recipient Revealed
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 28, 2016

One of the theater world's most prestigious playwriting prizes, the Yale Drama Series Prize, will be given to Emily Schwend for her play Utility.  The 2016 award recipient was chosen by playwright Nicholas Wright, who has served as judge for the 2015 and 2016 competitions.

Barbara Seyda to Receive 9th Annual Yale Drama Series Award
by Tyler Peterson - Apr 15, 2015

One of the theater world's most prestigious playwriting prizes, the Yale Drama Series Prize, will be given to Barbara Seyda for her play Celia, A Slave: 26 Characters Testify. The 2015 award recipient was chosen by playwright Nicholas Wright, who serves as judge for the 2015 and 2016 competitions.

Janine Nabers' SERIAL BLACK FACE Wins 2014 Yale Drama Series
by BWW News Desk - Mar 26, 2014

Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman has selected playwright Janine Nabers as the winner of the 2014 Yale Drama Series for her play Serial Black Face, chosen from 1638 entries from 41 countries. As winner of the competition, Serial Black Face will be published by Yale University Press, receive a staged reading at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theater, and Ms. Nabers will be presented with the David Charles Horn Prize, a cash award of $10,000.

Clarence Coo to Receive 2012 Yale Drama Series Award, 9/18; Marsha Norman to Judge in 2013
by Kelsey Denette - Sep 17, 2012

Playwright Clarence Coo will be presented with the Yale Drama Series Award this Tuesday, September 18 at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theater.

Shannon Murdoch Wins 2011 Yale Drama Series Award
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 22, 2011

Shannon Murdoch, an Australian playwright, has won the 2011 Yale Drama Series competition for her play New Light Shine, a work about four small-town lives linked through a violent crime and their hopeless attempts to erase the past and build new lives.