Awards
Jamie McKittrick in Metro Theater Company’s production of The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus, 2019. Directed by Julia Flood. Photo by Jennifer A. Lin.
Eric Coble, Playwright of The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus
Jamie McKittrick in Metro Theater Company’s production of The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus, 2019. Directed by Julia Flood. Photo by Jennifer A. Lin.
Metro Theater Company has two exciting announcements!
Playwright Eric Coble recently won the American Alliance for Theatre & Education's Distinguished Play Award for The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus! Did you see our production of his incredible play in 2019 featuring Jamie McKittrick as Dust Cloud? Be sure to watch this wonderful Educate.Today video (registration is free to view) featuring some of the creators behind The Girl Who Swallowed at Cactus (including Eric Coble).
Pearl Cleage, author of the book In My Granny's Garden, has won a lifetime achievement in theatrical writing award from the Dramatists Guild of America! Previous recipients include A.R. Gurney, Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Joseph Stein, Horton Foote, August Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, and Arthur Miller. You may have seen our recent production of In My Granny's Garden, which was inspired by the book by Pearl Cleage and Zaron Burnett Jr. and illustrated by Radcliffe Bailey.
Rosemary Newcott, Director of Metro Theater Company’s production of In My Granny’s Garden shared, “No one is more deserving of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Pearl Cleage’s plays are lyrical and riveting and always explore truths in ways that are both revelatory and entertaining. It has been my great honor to know her and to be present for all of her Alliance world premieres. I have also been blessed to direct some of her work for young audiences… most recently a play based on a delightful picture book, In My Granny’s Garden, penned by Pearl and her husband, Zaron Burnett Jr. Congratulations to Pearl! So well deserved.”
Pearl Cleage. Photo courtesy of the Alliance Theatre.
L to R: Jimmy Bernatowicz, Colin McLaughlin, Syrhea Conaway, Alicia Revé Like, Jenise Sheppard, Camille Sharp. Metro Theater Company’s production of In My Granny’s Garden, 2022. Directed by Rosemary Newcott. Photo by Jennifer A. Lin.
L to R: Alicia Revé Like and Jenise Sheppard. Metro Theater Company’s production of In My Granny’s Garden, 2022. Directed by Rosemary Newcott. Photo by Jennifer A. Lin.