As reported in this morning's New York Times, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Lidless is the winner of this year's Yale Drama Series contest. David Hare—whose many works for stage and screen include Plenty, Amy’s View, Stuff Happens, The Blue Room, The Vertical Hour, The Reader, and The Hours—served as judge for this year’s competition and selected Cowhig's work among 650 entries.
Cowhig’s play, which concerns the meeting of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and his female U.S. Army interrogator 15 years after his detention, will be performed as a staged reading by the Yale Repertory Theatre and will be published by the Press later this year. Cowhig is a graduate of Brown University and International School of Beijing, and will receive her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin this May.
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