TCG Announces Twenty-Seven 2009 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards Totaling $ 772,000

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for not for profit professional theatre, is pleased to announce that in 2009, twenty-seven Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards were granted to theatres around the country.

The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award was piloted in 2006 with the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and launched nationally in 2007. The award provides Theatre Communication Group member theatres with financial resources to increase rehearsal time with the full production team, including the playwrights, onsite at the producing theatre. The total of awards to date is seventy-three ($ 2,292,000).

"There is no replacement for time when it comes to developing new plays. Our recent production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's break though trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays, is testament to that fact," said Emily Mann, McCarter Theatre artistic director. "In large part due to the extended rehearsal period provided by The Edgerton Foundation, The Brother/Sister Plays opened to great acclaim at McCarter Theatre. The plays then moved on to our partner, The Public Theater in New York, where audiences and critics alike hailed McCraney as one of the new voices of his generation."

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The 2009 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards were presented to:

Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA

Tennis in Nablus

by Ismail Khalidi

American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA

Red Sox Nation

by Richard Dresser, Robert Reale, & Willie Reale
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Concerning Strange Devices From the Distant West

by Naomi Iizuka

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh, PA

When January Feels Like Summer