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front row left to right: E. Ramshaw, N. Carroll, J. Daniszewski, G. Collins, M. Miller, G. Escobar, T. Shelby; back row left to right: N. Brown, C. Lozada, V. T. Nguyen, E. Alexander, K. Lytle Hernández, K. Merida; N. Barnes; attending virtually (clockwise): L. Bollinger, D. Remnick, K. Boo, A. Applebaum (absent: S. Coll) (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Katherine Boo, Gail Collins and John Daniszewski, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Sylvia Khoury

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Selling Kabul
Citation
A riveting portrait of an Afghan family under extreme wartime duress that explores the agonizing personal choices and human costs of those who aided the effort in Afghanistan at their own peril.
Tags: 2022
Categories: Drama

Kristina Wong

Publication
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
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A humorous and moving performance piece detailing how the author became the founder of a homemade face mask operation in the early months of the COVID epidemic, reflecting on the significance of women of color performing an historically gendered and racialized form of labor at a time of rising anti-Asian bigotry.
Tags: 2022
Categories: Drama

James Ijames

Citation
A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes "Hamlet" to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty.
Tags: 2022
Categories: Drama
Publication
Fat Ham

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti

Publication
with eyes the color of time
Citation
Premiered on August 6, 2021 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, N.Y., a vibrant composition, inspired by works in The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, that distinctly combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism.
Tags: 2022
Categories: Music