Australian Playwright Named Winner of Yale Drama Series Honor

Shannon Murdoch, an Australian playwright, has won the 2011 Yale Drama Series competition for her play "New Light Shine," a work about four small-town lives linked through a violent crime and their hopeless attempts to erase the past and build new lives. Award-winning playwright John Guare chose the work  from submissions received from 20 countries on six continents.  When announcing this year's winner…

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