Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, has announced the winners of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award. The award, founded in 2018, supports new, bold voices for the American theatre and is presented to unproduced full-length works that are wholly original and not adaptations or translations of existing works. The 2021 Grand Prize winner is Daniella De Jesús for her play, "Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back." She will receive a cash prize of $25,000, a staged reading and a possible full production of her play at Barrington Stage Company. The Burman Award is also presenting $5,000 prizes to Miki Kim for her play, "After the Fall," and Laura Winters for her play, "Just the Melody." Both plays will also receive staged readings at BSC. 
Additional finalists included "Lyons Pride" by Bleu Beckford-Burrell, "Flood" by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, "You’re Crazy" by Steph Del Rosso, "Campaign" by Laura Jacqmin, "2020: a going away party play" by Keyanna Khatiblou and "Spare Rib" by Winter Miller. The Adjudication Panel included Ken Cerniglia, dramaturg (Hadestown); Deadria Harrington, Producing Artistic Leader of The Movement Theatre Company; Eric Keen-Louie, Producing Director of La Jolla Playhouse; Natasha Sinha, Associate Artistic Director at Playwrights Horizons and Julianne Boyd, Founder/Artistic Director, Barrington Stage Company. The Burman New Play Award Project Coordinator was Megan Nussle. Press contact: Jim Byk/The Press Room (212/763-7724)...