Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) has announced this year’s recipients of their annual Awards, honoring playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists who show promise in their writing to invest in the future of theater through their stories. Brittany K Allen is the winner of the Georgia Engel Comedy Playwriting Prize. The $10,000 Award is given annually to a female-identifying playwright in honor of their work in comedy. The Award was spearheaded in 2020 by Georgia’s close friends, writer/producer Phil Rosenthal and actress Monica Horan Rosenthal (Rosenthal Family Foundation), producer Dori Berinstein, and actor John Quilty (the Founding Committee). The inaugural winner was Bess Wohl. The 2021 Thom Thomas Award winner is Avi Amon. This $10,000 award is given to a former DGF Fellow and commemorates playwright Thom Thomas’s endless passion for nurturing the next generation of dramatists and his appreciation of DGF’s support of writers. The Award is made possible through the generous support of his longtime friends and colleagues, Iris Rainer Dart and Helen Lee Henderson. Emily Gardner Xu Hall is honored with the Stephen Schwartz Award. The Award is a  $10,000 Award given annually to a musical theatre writer whose voice is seen as critical to the continued success of the craft, in unconditional support of their work. The Stephen Schwartz Award debuted in 2019 with past recipients Khiyon Hursey (2020) and Oliver Houser (2019). Paulo K Tiról is the recipient of the first-ever Benjamin Indick Award. This award honors a mid-career lyricist, librettist or book writer for musical theater with $1,000, in honor of the late science fiction writer. For more information on the DGF Awards, visit https://dgf.org/grants/awards/. Press contact: Alyson Ahrns/Dramatist Guild Foundation (alyson@dgf.org)...