This award is given to an artist or individual whose work has set a high standard of individuality and self-styled creativity.

Playwright Jeannie Barroga lives in San Francisco and is currently TheatreWorks’ Literary Manager and a Spectrum Artist. A member of the Eureka PlayLab and Dramatists Guild, she founded the Playwright Forum in Palo Alto, now Theatre Works’ Discovery Project, and teaches playwriting primarily at Asian American Theatre. Last year, her plays received twelve productions, including the Bay Area tour of Kin, Eye of the Coconut, Walls (to be published by University of Massachusetts-Amherst Press), and Kenny Was a Shortstop and The Revered Miss Newton, both published in a book of her one-acts. In February, Rita’s Resources received a workshop production at Pan Asian Repertory in New York.

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