[NEohioPAL]Sarah Morton Nominated for National Theatre Awards

[Suzanne Ledel Miller]

SAFETY, by Cleveland playwright Sarah Morton, has been nominated for the 
American Theatre Critics Association's New Play Award, which honors new 
plays outside of New York City, and its M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, which 
goes to an up-and-coming playwright.

SAFETY received its World Premiere at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights, 
Ohio from January 19 through February 10, 2001.

Since 1974, ATCA has selected new plays produced outside New York City for 
citation and excerpts in BEST PLAYS, the theater yearbook started in 1920 by 
Burns Mantle and now edited by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins. (If the nominated play 
will be produced in New York during 2001, it is ineligible for our awards.) 
Since 1986, ATCA has chosen three such plays for its annual New Play Awards, 
further distinguishing the top-ranked choice with a prize now worth $25,000. 
Since 1994,
ATCA also has awarded $1,000 to one up-and-coming playwright for its annual 
Osborn Award.

Six New Play finalists will be chosen in January, and three New Play winners 
will be announced in April in a stage ceremony during the visitors weekend 
of the Humana Festival. The Osburn Award to an up-and-coming playwright will 
be presented in mid-February.

Magical, humorous and engaging, SAFETY highlights life for the Arden family 
in the wilds of "exurbia."


Suzanne Ledel Miller
Public Relations Director
Dobama Theatre
1846 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Phone: 216-932-6838
Fax: 216-932-3259


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