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Please note: We are currently re-organizing and are not accepting new applications. We will update our website when we are ready to announce our new programming.
Open Meadows Announces 2023 winners for the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award
Open Meadows Foundation is proud to announce three awards to playwrights honoring works focusing on lesbian voices and viewpoints.
Lesbian nurses in the Vietnam war face angry crowds when they arrive in Vietnam and then again arriving home in the United States. Each day offers another reminder that they are not welcome anywhere. These women have only themselves to rely upon in these troubled and confusing times towards the end of the war.
A terminally ill embalmer faces the dead regularly but is experiencing what can only be described as an existential crisis as she faces her own mortality. She and her sister wrestle with their relationship while she finds herself falling in love with a former crematorium worker.
The Nancy Dean award for Lesbian Playwrights is to honor a woman who was at the forefront of Lesbian, queer, gay, genderqueer, gender-nonconforming, trans, intersex and people of color movements. We honor her focus and writing on Lesbian relationships before the time of the Stonewall rebellion. Her writings were the precursor to social change. In that spirit of struggle and often hidden desire we encouraged the submission of new plays that address the conflict of lesbian, queer or gay, trans, and nonbinary women struggling to live and love their best lives. In these times of social definition and refinement, the age-old conflict of acceptance and the right to live our authentic lives, we continue to fight and are emboldened by each new generation. We understand people have their own language for their gender and sexuality. We are open to submission from women who are lesbian, queer or gay, trans and nonbinary.
Congratulations to the award winners and we look forward to the production of these inspirational plays.
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Please e-mail questions or comments to openmeadowsfdn@gmail.com
Please note: We are currently re-organizing and are not accepting new applications. We will update our website when we are ready to announce our new programming.
Open Meadows Announces 2023 winners for the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award
Open Meadows Foundation is proud to announce three awards to playwrights honoring works focusing on lesbian voices and viewpoints.
- Ann Meredith - Forgotten Angels-A Matter of Honor, $5000
Lesbian nurses in the Vietnam war face angry crowds when they arrive in Vietnam and then again arriving home in the United States. Each day offers another reminder that they are not welcome anywhere. These women have only themselves to rely upon in these troubled and confusing times towards the end of the war.
- Hannah Kennedy - When We Die (What Will Become of Us?), $2500.
A terminally ill embalmer faces the dead regularly but is experiencing what can only be described as an existential crisis as she faces her own mortality. She and her sister wrestle with their relationship while she finds herself falling in love with a former crematorium worker.
- Odalys Nanin - Garbo’s Cuban Lover, $2500
- Shaulee Cook – Your Romeo, $1250
The Nancy Dean award for Lesbian Playwrights is to honor a woman who was at the forefront of Lesbian, queer, gay, genderqueer, gender-nonconforming, trans, intersex and people of color movements. We honor her focus and writing on Lesbian relationships before the time of the Stonewall rebellion. Her writings were the precursor to social change. In that spirit of struggle and often hidden desire we encouraged the submission of new plays that address the conflict of lesbian, queer or gay, trans, and nonbinary women struggling to live and love their best lives. In these times of social definition and refinement, the age-old conflict of acceptance and the right to live our authentic lives, we continue to fight and are emboldened by each new generation. We understand people have their own language for their gender and sexuality. We are open to submission from women who are lesbian, queer or gay, trans and nonbinary.
Congratulations to the award winners and we look forward to the production of these inspirational plays.
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Please e-mail questions or comments to openmeadowsfdn@gmail.com