{"id":5431,"date":"2010-03-04T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:03:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:03:02","slug":"Julia-Cho-wins-playwright-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=5431","title":{"rendered":"Julia Cho wins playwright honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Julia Cho has won the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Language Archive<\/strong>, her play about a linguist discovering that words may not be enough to save his crumbling marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The Language Archive will have i<strong>ts world premiere March 25-April 25<\/strong> at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif. South Coast Rep is producing the play by special arrangement with New York&#8217;s Roundabout Theatre Company, which commissioned it.<\/p>\n<p>Tony-winning director Doug Hughes (Doubt), one of this year&#8217;s judges, presented the award to Cho Wednesday at a private ceremony in New York.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cho, who has twice been a Blackburn finalist for her plays The Piano Teacher and 99 Histories<\/strong>, received the $20,000 cash prize and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning, which he created for the Blackburn Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its <strong>32nd year, the Blackburn Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding new English-language play by a woman.<\/strong> More than 90 scripts were submitted for this year&#8217;s prize.<\/p>\n<p>Created to encourage women playwrights, the Blackburn Prize reflects the values of Houston-born actress and writer Susan Smith Blackburn, who died in 1977. 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