The Lorraine Hansberry
Playwriting Award

An Anthology of Prize-Winning Plays

The Kennedy Center American
College Theater

An anthology of student-written plays celebrating the African American experience

Since 1977, the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award has honored student-written plays that best express the African American experience. For the first time, five of these full-length plays and six one acts or scenes from selected scripts have been collected in a single volume.

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