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Dateline: 26th February, 2009

Moss Wins Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

Chloe Moss has won the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play This Wide Night, commissioned by Clean Break and first performed at the Soho Theatre, before touring to Live Theatre, Newcastle, and The Drum, Plymouth, as well as a number of women's prisons.

Moss won $20,000 and a special commendation award of $5,000 went to Lucinda Coxon for Happy Now? at the National Theatre.

The other finalists were:

• Anupama Chandrasekhar for Free Outgoing (India)
• Ann Marie Healy for What Once We Felt (U.S.)
• Michele Lowe for Inana (U.S.)
• Elizabeth Meriwether for Oliver! (U.S.)
• Lynn Nottage for Ruined (U.S.)
• Kaite O'Reilly for The Almond and the Seahorse (Wales)
• Amy Rosenthal for On The Rocks (England)
• Esther Wilson for Ten Tiny Toes (England)

The awards are given annually to recognize women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. The prize reflects the values and interests of Susan Smith Blackburn, noted American actress and writer who lived in London during the last fifteen years of her life. She died in 1977 at the age of 42.

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