Oppenheimer Award
The Oppenheimer Award (also known as the Newsday George Oppenheimer Award or the Oppy) was named after the late playwright and Newsday drama critic George Oppenheimer. It was awarded annually to the best New York debut production by an American playwright for a non-musical play.[1] The selection committee has included playwrights Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, James Lapine, and Richard Greenberg. The award carries a $5,000 cash prize. The first award of $1,000, to the play Getting Out by Marsha Norman, was made in 1979, two years after Oppenheimer's death. It was discontinued in 2007.
Winners
- 1979 Getting Out, Marsha Norman[2]
- 1981 ‘Crimes of the Heart’, Beth Henley[3]
- 1983 "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday", Michael Brady
- 1985 "The Bloodletters" by Richard Greenberg
- 1988 "Mr. Universe" by Jim Grimsley
- 1989 "The Film Society" Jon Robin Baitz
- 1990 "Tales of the Lost Formicans", Constance Congdon
- 1991 "La Bête" by David Hirson
- 1992 "Marvin's Room", Scott McPherson
- 1993 "Joined at the Head" by Catherine Butterfield[4]
- 1994 "Pterodactyls" by Nicky Silver. "Why We Have a Body" by Claire Chafee[5]
- 1996 "Insurrection: Holding History", Robert O'Hara
- 1997 "The Grey Zone", Tim Blake Nelson
- 1999 "Wit" by Margaret Edson[6]
- 2002 "Brutal Imagination" by Cornelius Eady
- 2003 " Corner Wars" by Tim Dowlin[7]
- 2004 “The Flu Season” by Will Eno[8]
- 2005 "Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy", Mark Schultz
- 2006 "The Sugar Bean Sisters", Nathan Sanders
- 2007 Heddatron, Elizabeth Meriwether
Notes
- "Eady's 'Imagination' is Oppy Award Winner".
- New York Times SEP. 15, 1979
- The Plays of Beth Henley: A Critical Study, Gene A. Plunka
- Isenberg, Barbara (6 February 1994). "She Made Friends With Death : Catherine Butterfield wrote 'Joined at the Head,' a play about a brave friend dying of cancer. But that wasn't enough. She then decided she had to play the friend. It turned out to be good therapy and, incidentally, a hit". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- Nelson, Emmanuel S. (2009). Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. ABC-CLIO. p. 193. ISBN 9780313348600. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- Jones, Kenneth (November 15, 1999). "Edson to Accept Oppenheimer Playwriting Award Nov. 15". Playbill. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- Playbill Sep 16 2003
- Simonson, Robert (October 2, 2004). "Will Eno's Flu Season Wins 2004 George Oppenheimer Award". Playbill. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
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