The 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright Sarah Mantell for their play IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT. Set on the precipice of the end of a world wracked by climate change, the play tells the story of a group of itinerant friends traveling together between warehouses, working night shifts and checking the address labels of the packages searching for people they’ve lost.  The cast of seven consists of women, trans and nonbinary actors, all over 50. Awarded annually since 1978, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international award recognizing women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. Women+ includes trans and nonbinary playwrights.  The members of the distinguished panel of Judges were writer Julia Cho (US), stage director Rebecca Frecknall (UK), choreographer/director Raja Feather Kelly (US), theatrical producer Eleanor Lloyd (UK), actor/director/writer Lucian Msamati (UK) and star of stage and screen, Amy Ryan (US).  The list of finalists are Anupama Chandrasekhar (India) The Father and the Assassin, Maryam Hamidi (UK) Moonset, Karen Hartman (US) New Golden Age, Katie Holly (Ireland) Her Hand on the Trellis, Kimber Lee (US) saturday, a.k. payne (US) Amani, Francisca Da Silveira (US) Pay No Worship, Zadie Smith (UK) The Wife of Willesden, Ruby Thomas (UK) Linck & Mülhahn. For more information, please visit www.blackburnprize.org. Press contact: DKC/O&M (212/695-7400)...