50/50 Applause Awards 2015
Theatres Plays and Playwrights
2015 ICWP 50/50 Applause Award Recipients' 2014-2015 Seasons
* Denotes ICWP members
** Denotes previous recipients
| Theater/Organization Name | Plays Produced in 2014-2015 Season | Playwright(s) |
| **16th Street Theater | The Gun Show | *EM Lewis |
| Berwyn, Illinois, USA http://wp.16thstreettheater.org/ |
Our Holiday Stories |
Elizabeth Berg, Tanya Saracho, Robert Koo |
| The Art of Disappearing | Stephanie Alison Walker | |
| Graveyard of Empires |
Elaine Romero |
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| Actors for Children Theatre | Monsters Under the Bed | Gay H. Hammond |
| Flatwoods, Kentucky USA | Shiver Me Timbers | Gay H. Hammond |
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Bread & Roses Theatre |
Miss Julie | adapted by Tessa Hart from the original by August Strindberg |
| Centaur Theatre | Venus in Fur | David Ives |
| Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Social Studies | Tricia Cooper |
| www.centaurtheatre.com | Terminus | Mark O'Rowe |
| The Goodnight Bird | Colleen Murphy | |
| The Envelope | Vittorio Rossi | |
| Triplex Nervosa | Marianne Ackerman | |
| **Cherry Lane Theatre | To The Bone | Lisa Ramirez |
| New York, New York, USA | Me, My Mouth & I | Joy Behar |
| www.cherrylanetheatre.org | Peerless | Jiehae Park |
| King Lear | Re-envisioned by Jesse Jou | |
| The idea of ME |
Kristina Poe |
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| Chicago Dramatists | The Mecca Tales | Rohina Malik |
| Chicago, Illinois USA | A Work of Art | Elaine Romero |
| www.chicagodramatists.org |
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| **Company One Theatre Boston, Massachusetts USA |
Astro Boy and the God of Comics | Natsu Onoda Power |
| www.companyone.org |
The Chronicles of Kalki | Aditi Kapil |
| Brahman/i | Aditi Kapil | |
| Shiv | Aditi Kapil | |
| Shockheaded Peter |
Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott | |
| Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them |
A Rey Pamatmat |
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| Court Theatre | Native Son | Nambi E. Kelley |
| Chicago, Illinois, USA | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| http://www.courttheatre.org/ | The Good Book | Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson |
| The Secret Garden | Marsha Norman | |
| Iphigenia in Aulis | Sophocles | |
| Delinquent Theatre Vancouver, BC, Canada www.delinquenttheatre.com/ |
Stationary | Christine Quintana |
| Dobama Theatre | Belleville | Amy Herzog |
| Cleveland Heights, Ohio USA | The Norwegians | C. Denby Swanson |
| www.dobama.org |
A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration | Paula Vogel |
| Slowgirl | Greg Pierce | |
| Becky Shaw | Gina Gionfriddo | |
| Superior Donuts | Tracy Letts | |
| **Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre | 100 Year |
Richard Dresser |
| Summit, New Jersey USA | The Most Deserving |
Catherine Trieschmann |
| www.dreamcatcherrep.org |
Rapture, Blister, Burn |
Gina Gionfriddo |
| Ensemble Studio Theatre New York, New York USA |
When January Feels Like Summer | Cori Thomas |
| ensemblestudiotheatre.org/ |
Winners | Maggie Bofill |
| Five Times in One Night |
Chiara Atik |
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| Entity Theatre Munich, Germany |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
William Shakespeare (abridged version by Conny Loder) |
| www.entitytheatre.com |
Sleeping Beauty--A Panto |
Anne Wollstein |
| The Memory of Water |
Shelagh Stephenson |
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| **Factory Space Theatre | An Unexpected Execution | Emma Willis |
| Sydney, NSW Australia | The Matilda Waltz | *Deborah Mulhall |
| www.factoryspace.org |
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| **Factory Theatre Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
The Art of Building a Bunker |
Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia |
| www.factorytheatre.ca |
Take Me Back to Jefferson | An adaptation of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" by Michelle Smith and Dean Gilmour |
| Twisted |
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman and Joseph Jomo Pierre | |
| The Unplugging | Yvette Nolan | |
| Morro & Jasp: 9-5 |
Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee | |
| **Forum Theatre | Gidion's Knot | Johnna Adams |
| Silver Spring, Maryland USA | How We Got On | Idris Goodwin |
| http://forum-theatre.com | The T Party | Natsu Onoda Power |
| Passion Play | Sarah Ruhl | |
| The Shipment |
Young Jean Lee |
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| GALA Hispanic Theatre | Cancun | Jordi Galceran |
| Washington, DC USA | Fábulas Mayas | Cecilia Cackley |
| www.galatheatre.org | Los empeños de una casa | Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz |
| Tum Tica: Una historia de müsica y historia | Cecilia Cackley |
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| Mariela en el Desierto | Karen Zacarias |
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| Las Polacas –The Jewish Girls of Buenos Aires |
Patricia Suárez-Cohen |
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| Globus Theatre | The Canada Show | Ryan Gladstone & Bruce Horak |
| Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada | Separate Beds | MaryJane Cruise |
| www.globustheatre.com | Do You Take This Man? | Sarah Quick |
| The Long Weekend | Norm Foster | |
| Sunshine Express | Sarah Quick | |
| Aladdin |
Sarah Quick |
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| **Golden Thread Productions | Mahmoud | Tara Grammy |
| San Francisco, California, USA www.goldenthread.org |
Dear Armen |
Lee Boudakian & Kamee Abrahamian |
| Isfahan Blues |
Torange Yeghiazarian |
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| Hartke Theatre, Catholic University of America | King Oedipus Zeus to Deus |
Sophocles, adapted by William Butler Yeats |
| Washington, DC USA | La Perdida | Kathleen Cahill |
| http://drama.cua.edu/hartke-theatre/index.cfm | Conversations I've Never Had | Kathleen Burke |
| The Mage Knights of Eternal Light | Amanda Zeitler |
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| The Revolutionists |
Lauren Gunderson |
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| **HERE New York City, New York, USA www.HERE.org |
Trade Practices |
Erin Courtney, Eisa Davis, Robert Lyons, Qui Nguyen, KJ Sanchez, Chris Wells |
| Send For The Million Men | Joseph Silovsky | |
| The Pigeoning | Robin Frohardt | |
| Teatro Hugo & Ines: Short Stories | Ines Pasic and Hugo Suarez |
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| Leisure & Lust |
Sara Farrington |
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| Ivy Theatre Company | Donkey Punch | Micheline Auger |
| New York, New York USA www.ivytheatre.com |
Incongruence: a (trans)gender Looking Glass | Carla Pridgen |
| Juan and Emmett | Alan Baxter | |
| The Perfect Wife |
Karen L. Lewis |
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| KELUARGA TEATER | TABLE CLOTH (Taplak Meja) | *Herlina Syarifudin |
| South Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia | VICTIMIZING GODDESS COKEK (Tumbal Dewi Cokek) | *Herlina Syarifudin |
| keluargateater.wix.com/jakarta |
3 in 1 ACTION OF MY NAME IS NAME | *Herlina Syarifudin |
| GRAY WHITE RAINBOW (Pelangi Putih Abu-abu) | *Herlina Syarifudin | |
| MY NAME IS NAME (Namaku Nama) |
*Herlina Syarifudin |
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| La Boite Theatre Company | Pale Blue Dot | Kathryn Marquet |
| Kelvin Grove Village, QLD Australia | A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
| www.laboite.com.au | The Wind in the Willows | adapted by Maxine Mellor |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | |
| Samson | Julia Rose Lewis | |
| Medea |
adapted by Suzie Miller |
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| Langham Theatrical Company Langham, Saskatchewan Canada langhamtheatricalcompany.ca/ |
A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Christmas | *Kris Bauske |
| **Latino Theatre Company /Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) |
Properties of Silence |
Theresa Chavez, Rose Portillo, and Alan Pulner |
| Los Angeles, California USA |
Mariela en el Desierto | Karen Zacarias |
| www.thelatc.org |
Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary | Marissa Chibas |
| Patience, Fortitude and Other Antidepressants | Mariana Carreno King |
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| Premediation | Evelina Fernandez |
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| Dancing in My Cockroach Killers | based on works by Magdalena Gomez, adapted by Rosalba Rolon | |
| Agua a Cucharadas (Water by the Spoonful) | Quiara Algeria Hudes |
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| La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inanztin | Evelina Fernandez |
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| La Olla | Evelina Fernandez | |
| Paloma |
Anne Garcia Romero |
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| Longacre Lea | Pol Pot & Associates LLP | Kathleen Akerley |
| Washington, DC USA www.longacrelea.org |
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| Luna Stage | Lines in the Dust | Nikkole Salter |
| West Orange, New Jersey USA | Tilt The Unlit Candle | Ben Clawson |
| www.lunastage.org | Perfect Ganesh | Terrence McNally |
| Tar Beach |
*Tammy Ryan |
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| Manbites Dog Theater | Best of Enemies | Mark St. Germain |
| Durham, North Carolina USA | I And You | Lauren Gunderson |
| http://manbitesdogtheater.org |
The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls |
Meg Miroshnik |
| Månteatern Lund, Sweden |
Utrop |
Based on book by Celine Curiol, adaptation by Hanna Schmitz |
| www.manteatern.se |
Bless | Emma Broström |
| Det finns inga fattiga barn |
Rasmus Lindberg |
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| NextStop Theatre Company | Gidion's Knot | Johnna Adams |
| Herndon, Virginia USA | Sylvia | A.R. Gurney |
| www.nextstoptheatre.org/ | Gutenberg! The Musical! | Scott Brown and Anthony King |
| Love, Loss and What I Wore | Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron | |
| The Secret Garden | Marsha Norman | |
| A Man For All Seasons | Robert Bolt | |
| Miss Electricity | Kathryn Walat | |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas |
Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer |
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| Northlight Theatre | The Commons of Pensacola | Amanda Peet |
| Skokie, Illinois USA | The Mouse Trap | Agatha Christie |
| http://www.northlight.org/ | White Guy on the Bus | Bruce Graham |
| Outside Mullingar | John Patrick Shanley | |
| Shining Lives: A Musical |
Jessica Thebus |
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| **OBSIDIAN Theatre Company | The Mountaintop | Katori Hall |
| Toronto, Ontario Canada www.obsidiantheatre.com |
The Wild Party |
Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe |
| **off the WALL Productions Carnegie, Pennsylvania USA |
The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs | Carole Frechette |
| www.insideoffthewall.com |
Or, | Liz Duffy Adams |
| Ghosts | adaptation by *Virginia Wall Gruenert (original by Henrik Ibsen) | |
| The Whale |
Samuel D. Hunter |
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| **Paul Robeson Theatre |
Shake Em On Down | R. Skye Kamiyo |
| Buffalo, New York USA www.aaccbuffalo.org |
Bitch |
Datra Martindale and Kim Williams |
| Burying The Bones |
M.E.H. Lewis | |
| Simply Annette |
Paulette D. Harris and Annette L. Christian | |
| How I Got Over |
Paulette D. Harris |
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| Performance Network Theatre | Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA | Gift of the Magi | Annie Martin |
| http://www.pntheatre.org | This Wonderful Life | Steve Murray |
| Yellowman | Dael Orlandersmith | |
| Stones in His Pockets | Marie Jones | |
| Salvage | Joseph Zettelmaier | |
| If You Give A Mouse a Cookie | Jody Davis | |
| Other Desert Cities |
Jon Robin-Baitz |
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| Perseverance Theatre | An Iliad | Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare |
| Juneau and Anchorage, Alaska, USA | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Christopher Durang |
| http://www.ptalaska.org | Chicago | Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse |
| A Christmas Carol |
Adapted by Michael Haney and Artlitia Jones | |
| The Mountaintop | Katori Hall | |
| The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | |
| Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England | Madeleine George |
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| Warriors | Dave Hunsaker | |
| The Blue Bear |
Luan Schooler and Leon Ingulsrud |
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| **Playground | Hella Love Oakland | Robin Lynn Rodriguez |
| San Francisco, California USA | The Empty Nesters | Garret Jon Groenveld |
| http://playground-sf.org |
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| **Playwrights Horizons | Bootycandy | Robert O'Hara |
| New York, NY, USA | Grand Concourse | Heidi Schreck |
| www.phnyc.org | Pocatello | Samuel D. Hunter |
| Placebo | Melissa James Gibson | |
| Iowa | Jenny Schwartz | |
| The Qualms |
Bruce Norris |
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| Poorboy Scotland, UK |
Pirates and Mermaids |
Sandy Thomson and Jeremiah Reynolds |
| www.poorboy.co.uk |
The SMA Room Seance | Ajay Close |
| **Port City Playhouse | Black Hole | Jean Koppen |
| Alexandria, Virginia, USA | In the Next Room | Sarah Ruhl |
| www.portcityplayhouse.org | Shining City | Conor McPherson |
| Stick Fly |
Lydia R. Diamond |
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| **Ragged Wing Ensemble El Cerrito, California USA www.raggedwing.org |
REDWOLF | Amy Sass and Anthony Clarvoe |
| RATS TEATER Stockholm, Sweden |
Ada- Byron Lovelace (Women in Science, trilogy) | Rebecca Forsberg |
| www.ratsteater.se |
On my street - (Antgoni in Husby trilogy) | Rebecca Forsberg |
| Haimon - (Antgoni in Husby, trilogy) | Rebecca Forsberg |
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| Antgones dairy - (Antgoni in Husby, trilogy) | Rebecca Forsberg |
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| Maryam (Women in Science, trilogy) |
Rebecca Forsberg |
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| Round House Theatre | FOOL FOR LOVE | Sam Shepard |
| Bethesda, Maryland USA | FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN | Will Power |
| www.roundhousetheatre.org/ |
THE NUTCRACKER |
Jake Minton and Phillip Klapperich |
| RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN | Gina Gionfriddo | |
| UNCLE VANYA |
Annie Baker (Original Male Playwright: Anton Chekhov) | |
| NSFW |
Lucy Kirkwood |
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| **Salvage Vanguard Theater Austin, Texas USA |
Bright Now Beyond |
Daniel Alexander Jones and Bobby Halvorson |
| www.salvagevanguard.org |
Am I White | Adrienne Dawes |
| Thr3e Zisters | Lola Pierson and Yury Urnov | |
| **Sarasvati Productions Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada http://sarasvati.ca/ |
Miss N Me | Catherine Banks |
| Shelterbelt Theatre | Mickey & Sage | Sara Farrington |
| Omaha, Nebraska, USA | The Other Sewing Circle | Marie Amthor Schuett |
| www.shelterbelt.org | In the Jungle You Must Wait | Jeremy Johnsons |
| Abby in the Summer |
A.P. Andrews |
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| South Baldwin Community Theatre | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| Gulf Shores, Alabama USA | Rapunzel | Karen Boettcher-Tate |
| www.sbct.biz |
Cinderella | Oscar Hammerstein II |
| Alert and Vertical | Laura Pfizenmayer | |
| The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon | |
| Southern Sirens | Alicia Lane Dutton | |
| The Ransom of Red Chief |
Pam Nagel and George Wingerter |
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| Stark Naked Theatre Company | The God Game |
Suzanne Bradbeer |
| Houston, Texas USA | Ho Ho Humbug |
Scott Burkell |
| www.starknakedtheatre.com |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Stage Kiss |
Sarah Ruhl |
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| Sterling Theatre Company | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Becky Shaw | Gina Gionfriddo |
| www.sterlingstudiotheatre.com |
Crimes of the Heart |
Beth Henley |
| Tarrant Actors Regional Theatre | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Fort Worth, Texas USA | The Mousetrap | Agatha Christie |
| www.thetart.org |
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| Teatro Paraguas | Death and The Maiden | Ariel Dorfman |
| Santa Fe, New Mexico USA http://teatroparaguas.org/ |
Not Quite Right | Elaine Jarvik and Robert F. Benjamin |
| Mariela in the Desert | Karen Zacarias | |
| Cascarones | Irma Mayorga | |
| 26 Miles | Quiara Algeria Hudes | |
| A Musical Piñata for Christmas II | Melinda Sena de Tarnoff |
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| Word Over All: Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda |
Dan Bohnhorst |
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| The Catastrophic Theatre | A Very Tamarie Christmas | Tamarie Cooper |
| Houston, Texas USA | Detroit | Lisa D'Amour |
| www.atastrophictheatre.com/ | The Blackest Shore | Mark Schultz |
| The Hunchback Variations |
Mickle Maher |
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| **The English Theatre Of Rome Rome, Italy |
World Premiere Adaptation of Hemingways Farewell To Arms | Dramaturgy Elizabeth Saragnese and Gaby Ford |
| www.rometheatre.com |
Frozen play | Byrony Lavery |
| The Road Theatre Company | Melissa Arctic | Craig Wright |
| North Hollywood | The Other Place | Sharr White |
| California USA |
The English Bride | Lucille Lichtenblau |
| http://www.roadtheatre.org | Mud Blue Sky | Marisa Wegrzyn |
| Things Being What They Are |
Wendy Macleod |
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| Theatre Inconnu | Alien Creature | Linda Griffiths |
| Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | Alice | Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Paul Schmidt, and Robert Wilson |
| www.theatreinconnu.com | Baby With The Bath Water | Christopher Durang |
| Cock |
Mike Bartlett |
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| **Theatre Passe Muraille | Life, Death and The Blues | Raoul Bhaneja |
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada www.passemuraille.ca |
My Treasure Island!!! |
Sara Levine (Adapted by Karen Woolridge) |
| The De Chardin Project | Adam Seybold | |
| R-E-B-E-C-C-A | Sara Farb | |
| The Sound of Cracking Bones / Le bruit des os qui craquent |
Suzanne Lebeau (translated by Julia Duchesne & John Van Burek) | |
| Hooked |
Carolyn Smart |
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| Ujima Theatre Company | Top Dog/Underdog | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| Buffalo, New York USA | Bourbon at the Border | Pearl Cleage |
| www.ujimacoinc.org | In The Red and Brown Water | Tarrell Alvin McRaney |
| The Process |
Aimee Levesque, Keller Vogelsang, Robert Bach, Wanda Wilson & Maria Laurendi |
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| WaterTower Theatre | Bonnie & Clyde | Book by Ivan Menchell |
| Addison, Texas USA www.watertowertheatre.org |
The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical | Book by Betsy Kelso |
| The Santaland Diaries | David Sedaris | |
| The Explorers Club | Nell Benjamin | |
| Sexy Laundry | Michelle Riml | |
| All My Sons | Arthur Miller | |
| O'Keeffe! | Lucinda McDermott | |
| Manicures & Monuments |
Vicki Caroline Cheatwood |
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| Windy City Playhouse | End Days | Deborah Zoe Laufer |
| Chicago, Illinois USA | Stick Fly | Lydia R. Diamond |
| www.windycityplayhouse.com/ |
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