(L-R) Ryun Yu and Chelsea Kurtz in “How the Light Gets In” (Photo – Craig Schwartz)
Playwright E.M. Lewis and her play “How the Light Gets In” have received the 2020 Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
By News Desk
The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which comes with a $25,000 prize, recognizes playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2019. The 2020 awards were presented online May 13, 2020. (View video here).
The play by Oregon-based Lewis was produced by Boston Court Pasadena. The work centers on a travel writer who never travels, a struggling architect, a tattoo artist and a homeless girl find each other when one of them falls apart. Lewis remarked in her recorded acceptance speech that her play “is about finding the courage to reach toward each other in the darkest and most difficult times.”
Click for the full list of Steinberg/ATCA Award and Citations recipients.
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) was founded in 1974 and works to raise standards and public awareness of the functions and responsibilities of theater critics. It is the only national association of professional theater critics, with over two hundred members working in print, broadcast, and online media. ATCA is a chapter of the International Association of Theatre Critics / Association internationale des critiques de théâtre (IATC-AICT) a UNESCO-affiliated organization that sponsors seminars and congresses worldwide.
> E.M. Lewis will be joining Boston Court’s Literary Manager/Director of New Play Development, Emilie Pascale Beck, in a virtual conversation about the development of the play from initial idea to full production. Click to register here.
Source: americantheatrecritics.org
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