Charles Leipart Wins 2016 Best One-Act Play Contest

The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival has awarded Charles Leipart as the winner of the 2016 Best One-Act Play Contest. His winning play "Cream Cakes In Munich" will be given a staged reading as part of the festival and the play will be published in Bayou Magazine.

In addition, the prize comes with a $1,500 cash award. "Cream Cakes in Munich" is a study for a large theatrical work about politics and power, Motherland/Fatherland. "I'm thrilled and extremely honored to have my play associated with the name of Tennessee Williams, one of the world's great playwrights and one whom I greatly admire," said Mr. Leipart.

Charles Leipart received a 2015 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation LGBT Playwriting Award for A Kind of Marriage. His original portrait of Pamela Harriman, Swimming at the Ritz, developed with award-winning BBC director David Giles, began a UK National Tour in March 2011 supported by the Arts Council England; American premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company, Jan 2015. Charles's adaptation of Helene Hanff's comic memoir, Underfoot in Show Business, received its world premiere at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, UK. Awards: The Kleban Foundation Award for Librettist 2001. Finalist for the Fred Ebb Award in Songwriting 2005, 2006 & 2008. Winner of the Global Search for New Musicals, Cardiff, Wales, 2005 (Frog Kiss). Charles is a former Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation and a graduate of Northwestern University. www.charlesleipart.com

Celebrating 30 years of theatrical, literary, and cultural offerings, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival hosts a stellar lineup at its annual event March 30-April 3, 2016, in locations throughout the city's iconic French Quarter and beyond. Guests enjoy a packed tableau of events to celebrate our patron playwright, his works, and literary life, as well as contemporary artists.