Member Awards

Laura Shamas won a 2023 Los Angeles New Play Project Playwright Award: $20,000 to the playwright for her play FOUR WOMEN IN RED. The nominating theatre, The Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, also won $20,000 to produce the play in 2024. www.lanpp.org

Winner of the 2007 Spokane Civic Theatre Competition for her one act play, No Smoking, a comedy about a smoking cessation clinic. See more on New Play Exchange. 

Winner of the 2010 GEVA Theatre Regional Playwright Competition for her play Mystic Castle, a full length drama about serial killer Arthur Shawcross. 

I have a play February 5th, THE FAN FROM SEVILLE, as part of an evening entitled GUILTY PLEASURES presented at the One Night Stand Theater in Aurora, Colorado.  They have a Facebook page.  If you live in the Denver area, check them out.  A wonderful quirky theater.

Also my book, DREAMING OF STORMS, which tackles the difference between artistic death and real death is due out March  3rd. 

Patricia Milton's comedy mystery "The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective," produced by The Public Theater, has been awarded Critic's Choice Best of Maine 2022 by BroadwayWorld.

The Public Theater "opened its 2022-2023 season with an especially stylish production of Patricia Milton's THE VICTORIAN LADIES DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE. This witty contemporary spin on the Victorian murder mystery confronts convention, gender bias, and a serial killer all in one fast-paced, delightful evening. Directed by Christopher Schario, the mystery unfolded in a heady concoction of suspense, thrills, and laughter."

Christine's new full length "Off the Map" is a 2022 Finalist in the Woodward/Newman Competition and Winner of the 2022 Susan Glaspell New Play Award.

The world premiere production of Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday will be produced August 11-13, 2022, 7 pm Central Time, at Market House Theatre in Paducah, KY. Please call the box office at (270) 444-6828 to purchase tickets. Pay which you wish, with minimum of $5. 

Susan's debut full-length play Not Just Cousins will receive a staged reading on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati, OH. This play is a must-see for women who grew up in the seventies and tried to "have it all" but then realized that the more things change the more they stay the same. Tickets are $10 and will be available on August 4, 2022 at www.cincinnatiarts.org 

"The Scholarship" by Cristina A. Bejan & James Brunt 

- Produced by Theatre29 Denver & Bucharest Inside the Beltway (Livestream, December 2021)
- Produced by Kibo Productions & Baron's Court Theatre (Rehearsed Reading, Peace Festival for Ukraine, London, UK, April 2022)

"Life According to Swami Shiva" by Cristina A. Bejan

-Produced by Milibo Arts Theatre, Colorado Women's Theatre Festival (Colorado Springs, CO, April - May 2022)

I am honored to be inducted into the Luther Smith East High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame on April 21st as an …”Outstanding Playwright and Creative Activist for social Justice for the Black Community”