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4 unusual facts about M. Elizabeth Osborn


M. Elizabeth Osborn

In the 1970s, she was an Assistant Professor of Theatre at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Seattle-based playwright Keri Healey is the 2013 Osborn Award winner, honored for her play Torso. Darren Canady, an assistant professor at the University of Kansas (KU), received the award in 2012 for his play about rural African-American life, Brothers of the Dust.

She was always highly appreciative of theater artists, as typified by her obituary tribute to director colleague John Hirsch in the New York Times.

Rebecca Gilman

The Glory of Living (2001), a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize and won an M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, an After Dark Award, a Jeff Citation, the George Devine Award, and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright



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