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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Quiara Alegrķa Hudes Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hudes Residency at CPH May 1-5 as Part of New Ground Theatre Festival<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CLEVELAND, OH (April 17, 2012) – Playwright Quiara Alegrķa Hudes, who will be coming to Cleveland Play House for a week-long residency as part of New Ground Theatre Festival, has just been awarded the 2012
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play <i>Water By the Spoonful</i>. The Pulitzer is given “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life,” and includes a prize of $10,000. Hudes will be at
Cleveland Play House for a week-long residency May 1 – 5, 1012, as the winner of the first annual Roe Green Award, which brings a leading American playwright to Cleveland to develop a new project culminating in a public reading as part of New Ground Theatre
Festival. <span style="color:black">Hudes will also teach a Master Class with CPH Playwrights’ Unit, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University theatre students.</span> The reading of Hudes new play, tentatively titled
<i>Daphne’s Dive</i>, is open to the public and takes place on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre at PlayhouseSquare. Tickets are pay-what-you-can and can be purchased in advance by phone at 216-241-6000 or
online at <a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com">www.clevelandplayhouse.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lisa Craig<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Public Relations Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cleveland Play House<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1901 East 13<sup>th</sup> Street # 200<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cleveland OH 44114<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Direct: (216) 400-7022<o:p></o:p></p>
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