RAT RE: ICWP Annouces Award Winning Members

["Mary Lathrop" <lathrop@sprynet.com>]

For Immediate Release... International Centre for Women Playwrights members
reported 283 productions and readings in 2000. For a full list of member
productions, awards, and recent publications -- as well as a searchable data
base of member plays, more information about ICWP programs, information
about joining, and a link to our lively and supportive e-list ICWP-L --
please visit the ICWP web site at:

        http://www.internationalwomenplaywrights.org

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS

CONGRATULATES ITS 2000 AWARD WINNING MEMBERS!

Actors' Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest
  -Kathleen Warnock, finalist, Rocks in The Bed
All Out Arts Festival, NY, NY
  - Mrinalini Kamath, finalist, Hiding the Pink
Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Annual Festival
  - **Diane Grant, winner, Family Values
Arlene P. & William L. Lewis Playwriting Contest for Women
  - **Jamie Pachino, winner, Waving Goodbye
  - Olga Humphrey, finalist, F-Stop
Artists Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Playwriting Fellowship
  - **Mary Lathrop, winner, The Visible Horse
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) PlayWorks 2000
  - **Daphne Hull, winner, full-length, Eulogy: What I Would Have Said,
Given
the Gift of Articulation
  - Mrinalini Kamath, first alternate, one-act, To Err Is...
Carpetbag Theatre One-Act Play Competition
  - Nancy Gall-Clayton, 3rd place winner, Discovery
Charlotte Repertory, New Plays In America Series/2000
  - **Sandra Perlman, winner, The Beatrice Factor
Coe College Playwriting Competition
  - **Jamie Pachino, winner, Waving Goodbye
  - Rachel Rubin Ladutke, runner-up, The Belles of the Mill
Colorado Council for the Arts
  - **Jeannene Bybee, winner, $4000 playwriting fellowship
Drama Workshop Competition, Civic Center Studio Theatre, Des Moines, IA
  - **Shirley Barrie, first place winner, Revelation
  - Kristen Lazarian, second place winner, In the Church of the Pen
  - Nancy Gall-Clayton, third place winner and special honorable mention,
The Colored Door at the Train Depot
  - Ludmilla Bollow, finalist, Flickering Dreams
  - Mary Lathrop, finalist, The Six Basic Rules
  - Kristen Lazarian, finalist, Spring Forgets
  - Lindsay Price, finalist, Mind Over Matter
Embridge Festival, UK
  - Kristen Lazarian, Best Original Play, In the Church of the Pen
Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
  -Dori Appel, finalist, Freud's Girls
  - Mary Lathrop, finalist, Tales From The SaltMines
  - Dolores Whiskeyman, finalist, The Good Girl is Gone
George Kernodle New Play Competition
  - Nancy Gall-Clayton, second place winner, Discovery
  - Sandra Dempsey, 9th place winner, Armagideon
  - Ludmilla Bollow,10th place winner, Entrances & Exits
  - Dori Appel, honorable mention
  - Jennifer Bloomfield, honorable mention
Get to the Point Short Play Contest
  -** Linda Eisenstein, winner, Revelation 24:12
  -** Ellen Margolis, winner, Late
  -** Beth Campbell Stemple, winner, Happy Birthday
  -** Michael Wright, winner, The Ref
Herbert Mark Newman Theatre Contest
  - Donna Spector, finalist, The Golden Ladder
Jane Chambers Playwriting Competition
  - Laura Henry, finalist, student category, The Six That Fell
Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, $10,000 award
  -** Jamie Pachino, winner, Waving Goodbye
Last Frontier Theatre Conference Competition, U. of Alaska/Valdez
  - Carole Clement, finalist, Misunderstanding in Red and White
  - Ginny Foster, finalist, Time's Fool
Long Island City Arts Program
  - Jewel Seehaus-Fisher, finalist, Marriage Dreams
Midwest Theatre Network
  - Judy Freed (book), finalist, Sleepy Hollow
Moondance International Film Festival 2001 - Screenplay Competition
  - Eliza Wyatt, quarterfinalist, Crazy, But Stable
Moondance International Film Festival 2001 - Stage Play Competition
  - Rachel Rubin Ladutke, finalist, The Belles of the Mill
  - Mary Lathrop, finalist, The Visible Horse
  - Sandra Perlman, finalist, The Beatrice Factor
  - Michele Forsten, semi-finalist, Be My Baby
  - Sandra Perlman, semi-finalist, In Search of the Red River Dog
  - Olga Humphrey, semi-finalist, F-Stop
  - Paula Kamen, semi-finalist, Jane: Abortion & The Underground
  - Eliza Wyatt, semi-finalist, Blue Sky Thinking
  - Sandra Dempsey, quarterfinalist, Armagideon
  - Mary Lathrop, quarterfinalist, Dreams of Baby
  - Mary Lathrop, quarterfinalist, Tales from the Salt Mines
  - Valerie Von Rosenvinge, quarterfinalist, The Quarterly
2000 Nantucket Short Play Competition and Festival
  - Kristen Lazarian, semi-finalist, In the Church of the Pen
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
  - Ludmilla Bollow, 'best overall performance', The Beach Club
National Silver Jubilee Writing Competition, Aero Space Museum, Canada
  - **Sandra Dempsey, first prize, Wing and a Prayer
New Century Awards Competition 2000
  - Valerie von Rosenvinge, quarterfinalist, The Quarterly
New Harmony Project
  - Ludmilla Bollow, finalist, Dr. Zastro's Sanitarium for the Ailments of
Women -- Mental, Physical & Sexual
  - Nancy Gall-Clayton, finalist, The Colored Door at the Train Depot
  - Jamie Pachino, finalist, Waving Goodbye
Oregon Book Award
  - Sandra de Helen, finalist, The Bobbsey Twins Go to Hell
Oregon Writers Colony 2000 Writing Contest
  - Sandra de Helen, honorable mention, Switchblade
Original Theatre Company Ten by Ten Festival
  - Cass Erickson, finalist, Insomnia
Osborn Award, American Theatre Critics Association
  - Jamie Pachino, runner up, The Return To Morality
  - Jamie Pachino, nomination, Aurora's Motive
Pennsylvania Playhouse 2000 Original One Act Competition
  - Mrinalini Kamath, Audience Favorite Award, Hiding the Pink
Pentacle Theatre Playwrights Workshop
  - **Dori Appel, winner, Unsolved Crimes
Playwrights Forum Festival 2000 , Spokane Civic Theatre
  - **Jo J. Adamson, winner, Teotwawki
Religion & Theatre One-Act Play Competition, Association for Theatre in
Higher Education
  - **Mrinalini Kamath, winner, Confessions from the Afterlife
Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Contest
  - Daphne Hull, finalist, Eulogy: What I Would Have Said, Given the Gift of
Articulation
  - Olga Humphrey, finalist, F-Stop
  - Carole Clement, semifinalist, Babes in America
St. Lawrence Stage Company's Write On! Playwriting contest
  - **Jodi Miller, winner, Vladeck
Scene 4 Verse Play Contest
  - **Ren Powell, grand prize winner, Waltzing in Present Tense
Scott Manning Educational Scholarship
  - Kristan Ryan, recipient
Short Grain Contest
  - Jodi Miller, honorable mention, Vladeck
ShowOff Playwriting Festival (6th Annual), Camino Real Playhouse
  - Mrinalini Kamath, honorable mention, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
SNAP!fest 2000: New Works Festival
  - **Linda Eisenstein, winner, Three The Hard Way and Names of the Beast
  - **Dori Appel,  winner, Tea Time and Balance
  - **Paula Kamen, winner, A Cure for AIDS
Sonoma County Rep October Festival of New Plays
  - Kristen Lazarian, finalist, Spring Forgets
Stanley Drama Award
  - Judy Freed, semifinalist (book), Emma and Company
Theatre Oxford Ten Minute Play Contest
  - Nancy Gall-Clayton, semifinalist, Directions
Theatrix Third Annual "Drop Your Shorts!" Short Play Festival
  - Mrinalini Kamath, finalist, Burning Desire
Turnip Theatre Short Play Festival
  - Kathleen Warnock, finalist & Audience Favorite award, I'm Gonna Run Away
University of British Columbia Playwriting Competition
  - Jamie Pachino, honorable mention, Waving Goodbye
University of Maine 10 min. Play Contest
  - **Ludmilla Bollow, winner, Carry-On
Ukiah Players Theatre 2000 New American Comedy Festival competition
  - Carole Clement, semi-finalist, Babes in America
West Coast 10-Minute Playwriting Contest
  - Dori Appel, finalist, Balance
R. Joyce Whitley Festival of New Plays
  - **Carole Clement, winner, Passing Tense
Windmill Playwrights Festival
  - **Karin Diann Williams, winner, Justine
Women at the Door Festival, Famous Door Theatre
  - **Jamie Pachino, winner, Waving Goodbye
WriteAngle Ten Minute Play Contest
  - **Rachel Rubin Ladutke, winner, March, Prelude
  - **Anne Lower, winner, April, Interlude
  - **Gretchen Elizabeth Smith, winner, November, The History Of The Tango
Writer's Digest Drama Competition 2000 - top 100
  - Jamie Pachino, #13, Waving Goodbye
  - Ginny Foster, #21, Falling Star
  - Michele Forsten, #26, Be My Baby
  - Ginny Foster, #61, Eating Dust

**--indicates First Prize

For a full list of member productions, awards, and recent publications -- as
well as a searchable data base of member plays, more information about ICWP
programs, information about joining, and a link to our lively and supportive
mailing list ICWP-L -- please visit the ICWP web site:

        http://www.internationalwomenplaywrights.org

Best,

Mary Lathrop
ICWP Director of PR
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