Yale Student Wins Playwriting Award.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 February 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Student Wins Playwriting Award(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08022007 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale University Drama School student Tarell Alvin McCraney has won the first annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Vineyard Theater in New York City.

McCraney is a third-year MFA student in playwriting and author of the acclaimed play "The Brothers Size," a drama that was performed at the Public Theater during this winter's Under the Radar Festival and last summer, in London. According to a review by Jason Zinoman in The New York Times, the play is "an absorbing and emotionally resonant drama set in the bayou country of Louisiana and loosely based on West African myths.... there is evidence in his...