DATE: April 11, 2016 CONTACT: Name: Elana Gartner/Deborah Magid/Kris Bauske Phone: 01-407-461-7627 Email: awards@womenplaywrights.org <http://www.womenplaywrights.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=%2fRAlX0lhZFsVZjKvflHnLkiOmiy4qdNMFd5yOR1iNRgj2fTFcpK4rvXo94u%2bZ8UQKnPxKvjSdBwokeMjcedQZOlnZaQnCCuqP1Ijp%2b5%2fLvE%3d> Web address: http://www.womenplaywrights.org <http://www.womenplaywrights.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=%2bYqJhJCRMpX7C4YRNhfVYBOizaL%2bxPl8RuIkA81UBZnq3xUOOAOZAHMAOBbt0Cadc%2fJwtxe4YqUg0Gj78Qace2q3Jk0Ms1uPzNgfssAQnok%3d> Twitter: @icwp #icwp5050 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WomenPlaywrights <http://www.womenplaywrights.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=u7%2fmYOvJLvDdaaerJqGadQdiUTW4GRLUXUe4gTTXN8P26xDl8k2XDlZCa3ftIiQWWDvM5hBBkGlNlFUbKRIq6EpeMqIc4epbdj%2bVJPj4czg%3d> Nominations Opening Soon: 2016 ICWP 50/50 Applause Award for Theatre Gender Parity Around the Globe (The World) – The International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) is proud to sponsor the fifth annual 50/50 Applause Award, celebrating theatres which achieved gender parity among their produced playwrights in a given theatre season. The nomination window for the 2015/16 season is about to open! Nominations for the 2015/16 theatre season will be offered via web form May 2–20, 2016. Anyone may participate. The public is encouraged to nominate any theatre which meets the criteria for the award, and artistic directors and theatre employees may self-nominate. Please share this information with your theatre friends around the world! Eligibility requirements for the award are available at http://www.womenplaywrights.org/award <http://www.womenplaywrights.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=gMo31lp5Px9RnYQz5yrnZGgf7UqqJOFRKtYFZfNzkp7Dyoxn85Zk73XPT6BYJYADOQbcFnQL%2b7E0Lfi16ZEW%2bIs7CUrnpiiraAyKIYBtlTc%3d> Contact us if you need translation assistance. The 2015/16 Season awards will be announced in September 2016. Start verifying information now, and be ready to submit when the nomination window opens May 2nd! For more information about the award and previous recipients, go to http://www.womenplaywrights.org/50/50-Awards-History <http://www.womenplaywrights.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=JBj2RF6k0D77narHW%2fIE7CtOSLcqB8Iw45ZwDCdB2AWu1SrvKX4bvw7Ac0VAfqnjGvlQ9xwloPDp6PerzouSEH7llfAcfOwZSE33xngE%2bJw%3d> ABOUT ICWP Established in 1989, The International Centre for Women Playwrights is an organization that exists to bring attention to the achievements of women playwrights and to provide a place for peer support, knowledge-sharing, and play publication. It is the goal of ICWP to enable women playwrights to have their plays professionally produced on the major stages of world theatres and to receive just recompense for their efforts. When the numbers are no longer tragically skewed against women, we will no longer be needed. We work for that day! http://www.womenplaywrights.org <http://www.womenplaywrights.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=%2bYqJhJCRMpX7C4YRNhfVYBOizaL%2bxPl8RuIkA81UBZnq3xUOOAOZAHMAOBbt0Cadc%2fJwtxe4YqUg0Gj78Qace2q3Jk0Ms1uPzNgfssAQnok%3d> Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, Broadway actor/singer, poet, and all-round energetic sort, D.S. Magid is a member of Cleveland Play House Playwrights’ Unit and the Dramatists Guild, and is a Cleveland Public Theatre Artist. She co-founded ICWP's 50/50 Applause Award for gender parity in theater while serving on their Board of Directors. Magid's works have been seen worldwide and comprise long, short, drama, comedy, musical, SciFi, rock opera, chamber opera, and “Richard Wagner’s Entire Ring Cycle in Ten Minutes with Sock Puppets.” Her theater musings can be found at miseentheatre.wordpress.com <http://miseentheatre.wordpress.com/>. Find my plays on the New Play Exchange. WHENCE YOU CAME, A PLAY FOR WOMAN AND MEDIA, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity NYC, June 12–July 10 and the William Inge Festival, April 20-24, 2016. Vermont Studio Center residency, Winter 2016. ADVENTURESS ADVENTUROUS and FOR LOUVRE OR MANET, March 3-6, 2016, Monster Box Theatre 365 Women A Year Festival. DENIAL (IS NOT A RIVER IN EGYPT), February 29 The Bechdel Group NYC, November 5-15 Santa Fe Playhouse Playwrights’ Workshop. LITANY (one of the CPH Centennial Plays), October 24-25, Cleveland Play House. Creede Repertory Theatre/Human Stage Winter Playwrights’ Retreat 2016. GRINGO CHIEF and THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN BEING HAPPY, November 2015, Los Alamos Little Theatre’s 8x10s. MAY SARTON DREAMS DEEP, Santa Fe Playhouse Benchwarmers production, June 11-28 2015, 365 Women A Year at The Lambs reading May 26. Playwright-Observer at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, July 2015.“Mickle Maher Gives Me Hope,” The Dramatist June-July 2015 issue. Participant, Directors Lab: Melbourne, TheatreWorks Australia October 2015. Interview and excerpts from THE CONSEQUENCE OF IMPRESSION by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, the MDQ Podcast, 2016. RESEARCH, grant/residency at Maine Women Writers’ Collection, and Named-Researcher status in NYPL Berg Collection’s May Sarton collections.