2010 recipients

The Good Counselor by Kathryn Grant
First Prize for Excellence in Playwriting
As a public defender attempts to mount a defense for a woman accused of killing her baby, the argument spills over from the courtroom into the community and finally into the psyche of the defense lawyer who must come to terms with his preconceptions about the capacities of mothers. 
Zinzi by Phyllis MacBryde
Citation for Excellence in Playwriting
Ripped from her tribal roots in South Africa and cast into the fertile jazz world of post World War II Harlem, a young girl struggles to find her way amid the challenges of a racially divided America. 
Quick Cuts, now titled The Eighth Wonder by Bill Cosgriff
Citation for Excellence in Playwriting
A working–class family in upstate New York deals with divorce, poverty, adultery – and the trials of raising a developmentally-delayed child. A dramedy that moves from the hardscrabble world of lawn maintenance to the high precincts of the Parisian art world and back again.