An American student at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia, which is located in Singapore, has won a playwriting contest in the United States with a piece of work that started out as a class assignment.
Josh Billig’s one-act play, Outside Sitka, won the 24th annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival 2010 Playwriting Contest. The festival is an annual five-day celebration held in New Orleans in late March to honour the late Putlizer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams.
Billig, 28, said his play was conceived during an assignment for a one-act play. He set it in rural Alaska where a couple runs a methamphetamine laboratory.
‘The man wants to quit and start life anew but his partner is a former prostitute so when he wants to clean up, it means she has to return to prostitution,’ he said.
See the full article from “AsiaOne”
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