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O'Neill Playwright Wins Award

Jennifer Haley presented her play at the 2011 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference

 

Jennifer Haley's play The Nether, which was part the the 2011 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the O'Neill Center announced on Facebook.

According to the Playbill article regarding the announcement, the $20,000 award is given to female playwrights "who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre."

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