Announcing the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights

Dead Youth, or The Leaks by Joyelle McSweeney is the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. Runners-up are Afall / Trauma by Angela Rawlings and Gagged by Hannah Silva. The award will presented, with a reading of the winning play directed by Fiona Templeton,  on Monday October 14th at 6:30pm at the New Ohio Theatre,154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014.