Bridget Carpenter took home the Kesselring Prize for playwriting--along with its $10,000 purse--in late November at the National Arts Club in New York City.(Awards & Prizes)

Bridget Carpenter took home the Kesselring Prize for playwriting--along with its $10,000 purse--in late November at the National Arts Club in New York City. Carpenter was nominated for the award--which honors promising new playwrights who have not yet received national attention--by Kentucky's Actors Theatre of Louisville for her play The Faculty Room.

Honorable mention and $2,500 went to Lynn Nottage for her play Intimate Apparel, nominated by South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif. Named for the author of Arsenic and Old Lace, the Kesselring Prize is given annually by the ...

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