Member Awards

Nominated for Best Toronto Playwright in NOW Magazine's best of 2015 Readers' Choice Awards.

Voting closes Sept. 15

To vote go to:

http://bestof.nowtoronto/com/2015/

www.shirleybarrie.ca

Our original musical satire, YOU WANNA HEAR LUCK? won the 2014 IMEA (International Music & Entertainment Award) for Outstanding Original Book of a Musical and its Nomination for Outstanding Original Score of a Musical. Book & Lyrics by Elly Rakowitz Helfeld & Ruth Pleva, Music by Herb Sweet & Ruth Pleva.

at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005, from Fringe Report for her play FLOWERS OF RED

Playwright Mary Steelsmith has been awarded a scholarship by the Dramatists Guild of America to attend their National Conference, July 16-19, 2015, in La Jolla California.

Here is a link to the full announcement:https://medium.com/@DGFund/writechange-mary-steelsmith-82698b0f8210

Awarded the 2004  Raymond Flores award in New York for her one act  play Lo Mein and Tequila.

Awarded the Finalist Mention of the Ist 14th April Contest on Theatre about Historical Memory, given by the Democratic Memorial of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Barcelona in 2008 for her play El Cobert

Shirley King's first play won a California Arts Council Award. Her plays, scenes and monologues have now received more than 170 productions/readings. In the past three years they have been performed in the US, Korea, England, Canada and Scotland.

Shirleyking950@yahoo.com

PO Box 1034

Benicia, CA 94510

707-745-3325

I'm thrilled that Genesis Theatrical Productions will be producing ZELDA AT THE OASIS (my play about Zelda Fitzgerald) at the Raven Theater, 6157 N Clark St, Chicago, IL (773-338-2177) August 6-23!
I plan to be there for the first two shows (August 6^th & 7^th) and would love to meet up with any Listers interested! For tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34415/1438401600000

For info about the script: http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/44453/zelda-at-the-oasis

Catherine Frid is Playwright in Residence at Mixed Company Theatre in Toronto, where she's working on a TYA play about youth anxiety. This residency is funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

My full-length play YEARS OF SKY, about a biracial couple who witness JFK's assassination in Dallas, won the 2015 New Works of Merit Contest, the 2013 Columbia-Greene Playwrights Contest and was chosen as a PlayLabs Play for the 20015 Great Plains Theatre Conference.