Member Awards

After a staged reading of my play, Face, at the Cell Theater in New York City, I was nominated by in industry professionals for The Kilroy List of notable female playwrights.

A segment from my upcoming play, Andromeda Speaks, was performed at the 2017 NYNW Theater Festival and made it to the semi-final round.

The Very Perry Show written and performend by Kate Perry won best Comedy Show Award at The United Theatre Solo Festival in New York, November 2017.

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Diane Grant's two act comedy/drama The Last Of The Daytons won the SantaBarbaraPlayFest of 2017.

BLUEPRINT MEDEA was the premier winner of the Dan I Rodden Jr Play Award 2017.

ELEVATOR GIRL: 

2017 O'Neill finalist

Finalist, Boomerang First Flight

Semi-finalist, Austin Film Festival

HEARTS OF STONE:

Awarded NYSCA Individual Artist Grant

Honorable Mention, Panndora

BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART: 

Finalist, Santa Barbara Playfest

Nominated for the Susan Blackburn Prize (current)

MEET ME AT THE GATES, MARCUS JAMES

 Finalist, Anna Zornio Children's Theatre Playwriting Award                                    

 Purple Crayon Playground Festival, Northwestern, Evanston, OH                         April 2017

On November 12, 2017, Laura Shamas won the Von Marie Atchley Award for Excellence in Playwriting ($1,000) from Native Voices at the Autry (Los Angeles), for her short play SEEDS in Native Voices' 7th Annual Short Play Festival.

Michele D'Acosta, director, and Eliza Wyatt, writier won Best Animation Film, 2017, at Moondance International Film Festival. (a film sorry for planet earth) www.cookingtheearth.com

Diane Baia Hale has been named a winner for Capital Repertory Theatre's NEXT ACT! New Play Summit 6 for her historical drama THE MARBLE MUSE.  As part of the summit, a staged reading of the play will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 22 at Proctors GE Theatre in Schenectady, New York.

"UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour" has been named best nonfiction book of 2017 by Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival. 

UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour, follows the unmasked DONNA KAZ, and the masked APHRA BEHN through their often surprising 25 year journey. In a braided narrative that flips between 1977 and 1997, Donna Kaz describes, with an ironic and humorous voice, what it was like go from being on the arm of William Hurt and an insider on the sets of movies like Altered States and Bodyheat, to an anonymous outsider donning a scary gorilla mask to protest sexism at Broadway's Tony Awards. Donna Kaz hobnobs with actress Kathleen Turner and director Lawrence Kasden, while Aphra Behn organizes sticker campaigns focused at the big New York City theatres which produce season after season of only plays by white male playwrights. When the Roundabout Theatre's toilet stalls (in both women's and men's rooms) are plastered with Guerrilla Girls' stickers stating: In this theatre, the taking of photographs, the use of a recording device and the production of plays by women is strictly prohibited - the Roundabout announces their next season will include two plays by women. Aphra and the Guerrilla Girls take all the credit and go on to create comedic art and theater that blasts the blatant sexism of the theater world while proving feminists are funny at the same time.

FOR MORE INFO: https://www.amazon.com/MASKED-Memoirs-Guerrilla-Girl-Tour/dp/1510709436