This
year’s Yale Drama Series Prize has been awarded to Jacqueline
Goldfinger for her play “Bottle Fly.” She will receive $10,000, and her
play will receive a staged reading in London. “Bottle
Fly” is a multigenerational family drama set in the Florida Everglades.
“Its voice is passionate and straight-from-the-heart; the world it
shows us is earthy, cruel and hilarious,” Nicholas Wright, the
playwright who selected the winner, wrote in a statement. This
is the award’s 11th year, and it is sponsored by the David Charles Horn
Foundation. “Bottle Fly” will be published by the Yale University
Press, and a staged reading will take place in November, at the National
Theater Studio. The
runners-up were Andrew Rosendorf, for “Cottontail,” and Carla Grauls,
for “Natives.” One of last year’s runners-up, “The Wolves” by Sarah
DeLappe, went on to become a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Another one of Ms. Goldfinger’s plays, “The Arsonists,” was developed at the Kennedy Center in Washington and is currently running in Philadelphia. International New York Times
