Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
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2017-18
Anatomy of a suicide by Alice
Birch
2016-17
Dance nation by Clare Barron
2015-16
Sweat by Lynn
Nottage
2014-15
3 winters by Tena Štivičić
2013-14
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
2012-13
The flick by Annie Baker
2011-12
The nether by Jennifer Haley
2010-11
Hurt Village by Katori Hall
2009-10
The language archive by Julia
Cho
2008-09
This wide night by Chloë Moss
2007-08
Palace of the end by Judith
Thompson
2006-07 No first prize awarded. These
plays were awarded a tie:
Leaves by Lucy Caldwell;
Dead city : a modern
riff on Joyce's Ulysses by Sheila Callaghan;
O go my man by Stella Feehily
2005-06
Mammals by Amelia Bullmore;
The sugar wife by Elizabeth Kuti
2004-05
Behzti : (dishonour) by Gurpreet
Kaur Bhatti
2003-04
The clean house by Sarah Ruhl
2002-03
Yellowman
by Dael Orlandersmith
2001-02
U. S. drag by Gina Gionfriddo
2000-01
Humble boy by Charlotte Jones
1999-
2000
Fall by Bridget Carpenter
1998-99
Refuge by Jessica Goldberg
1997-98
Silence by
Moira Buffini;
How I learned to drive by Paula Vogel
1996-97
Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr
1995-96
One flea spare
by Naomi Wallace
1994-95
No 1st prize awarded; three top finalists:
My left breast
by Susan Miller;
Emma's child by Kristine Thatcher
1993-94 BACKSTROKE IN A CROWDED POOL by Jane Coles
1992-93
Moe's lucky
seven by Marlane Meyer
1991-92
Three birds alighting
on a field by Timberlake Wertenbaker
1990-91
Bold girls : a play by Rona Munro;
Before it hits home by Cheryl West
1989-90
Keeping Tom
nice by Lucy Gannon
1988-89
The Heidi
chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1987-88
Serious money by Caryl Churchill
1986-87 HOW TO SAY GOOD BYE by Mary Gallagher;
A narrow bed by Ellen McLaughlin
1985-86
Ourselves
alone by Anne Devlin
1984-85 NEVER IN MY LIFETIME by Shirley Gee
1981-82
Steaming by Nell Dunn
1980-81
My sister in
this house by Wendy Kesselman
1979-80 DETAILS WITHOUT A MAP by Barbara Schneider
1978-79
Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley