Announcing the Winner of the Third Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers

The Triumph of Crowds by Brigid McLeer is the winner of the third Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. The award will presented, with a reading of the winning play directed by Fiona Templeton, on Monday, December 5th, at 8:00pm at the New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014. Entrance is free; contributions are welcome.

3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers now open!

The third cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers is now open. We are looking for a full-length work for live performance by a woman writer with an inquiring approach to language and content. The winner will receive a $2,500 cash prize, print publication of the winning text by Litmus Press, a staged… Continue reading 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers now open!

Call for entries for the 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers

The third cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, with publication by Litmus Press and production by The Relationship, opens soon! The winner of the biennial award will receive a $2,500 cash prize; print publication of the winning text by Litmus Press; a staged reading of the piece in New York this… Continue reading Call for entries for the 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers

In support of AFSCME Local 3299 and its workers, Nathaniel Mackey’s Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley is postponed

In a demonstration of support for AFSCME Local 3299 and its workers, the Department of English is canceling Nathaniel Mackey’s scheduled March 3, 2016 delivery of the 2015-16 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley. He will visit campus next November instead; we will let you know the exact date when it… Continue reading In support of AFSCME Local 3299 and its workers, Nathaniel Mackey’s Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley is postponed