Jay Eddy‘s (GRS’23) Driving in Circles has been awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, and it is a co-recipient of the KCACTF Musical Theatre Award. The piece was also recognized with Distinguished Achievement in the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting. Driving in Circles is also one of two works named as a winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2022 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater. Richard Rogers, who was elected to the Academy in 1955, endowed these awards in 1978 to nurture talendted composers and playwrights by enabling their musicals to be produced by nonprofit theaters in New York City.
J.C. Pankratz (GRS’23) is a national finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play for their play Seahorse (recognition will be announced at the National Festival in April); their play Eggtooth was recognized for Distinguised Achievement in the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award. Seahorse was also awarded one of Synecdoche Works’ first Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowships for Works in Heightened Language. The fellowship recognizes exceptional full-length or one-act plays; Seahorse was selected from more than 350 submissions from all around the globe.