“Still,†a play by Jen Silverman, has been chosen as the winner of the 2013 Yale Drama Series, its organizers said on Monday. The play, about three women who are each dealing with challenges of childbirth â€" one whose child was born dead, one who is pregnant with an unwanted child and one who is a failed midwife â€" was chosen by Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “‘night Mother,†from nearly 1,100 entries.
Ms. Silverman will receive the David Charles Horn Prize, an award of $10,000, and “Still†will be presented in a staged reading at the Claire Tow Theater of Lincoln Center Theater and will be published by Yale University Press. The runners-up are Adam Szymkowicz for “Mercy,†Jennifer Blackmer for “The Human Terrain†and Catherine Treischmann for “The Most Deserving.â€
