Member Awards

The Nearly Final Almost Posthumous Play of the Not Quite Dead Sutton McAllister by Kris Bauske was selected for the 2015 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival. It will be produced at Stageworks Theatre over Labor day weekend 2015. All of the five full-length plays selected for TBTF this year were written by women.

THE GATEKEEPER,a  short comedy, and winner of the all the awards in the 2011 Fringe of Marin, San Rafael, CA has been named one of the best plays of the Fringe in it's 25 year history.

In November, Kras will attend the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, a prominent writing residency in Lasswade, Scotland established in 1982 to provide a peaceful setting where published writers can work without disturbance.  The fellowship is sponsored by the patronage of Drue Heinz of the H.J. Heinz Company.

Carolyn Kras has been awarded a Fulbright LUSK Award to be Playwright in Residence at Sell A Door Theatre Company in London from September 2015 to June 2016.  The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding and cultural exchange.  Kras will write a new play dramatizing a royal scandal to explore parallels related to contemporary sexual assault cover-ups. 

As the winner of the DISQUIET Short Play Award, Carolyn Kras received funding to attend the 2015 DISQUIET International Literary Program, which brings writers from around the world together with Portuguese writers for two-week intensive workshops in the art and craft of writing.  She will also receive a staged reading of her winning play, Reticence.

The 2015 New Play Festival of The Players Theatre in Sarasota, FL has selected "The Nearly Final Almost Posthumous Play of the Not-Quite-Dead Sutton McAllister" as a finalist.  The play will be given a reading in July.  The winning play will receive a full production in The Players 2016/17 season.

Jewish Plays Project selected THE OWL GIRL as one of top ten unpublished new Jewish plays of 2015.

http://www.jewishplaysproject.org/new-gallery-1

http://www.jewishplaysproject.org/raymond

 EL COBERT (The JunkRoom)  synopsis - Two sisters and a brother that live very different styles of life get together for the sorting out and emptying of the junk room that will precede the sale of their family home in nowadays Catalonia ( unfortunately  Spain yet).

As they do so, the “ghosts” of the Spanish Civil War and of Franco’s dictatorship that have left a deeply entrenched imprint of frustration and powerlessness in the previous generations and that remain in force nowadays due to the unconscious attitude and incapacity to confront the past of both many of the family members and the society around them, are invoked to show a pattern of repeated tensions and failed conducts that prevent communication and acceptance between the three brothers and sisters and symbolically of modern Catalan society in their efforts to lead creative and rewarding lives.

The women who participated in my workshop "El Despertar de la Diosa", i.e. Latina women in Chicago, proposed me for this award, which I received, without my being aware of it!