The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting (Est. 2013)
This award honors the memory of Marina Keegan ’12, a gifted playwright. Graduating seniors in English and Theater and Performance Studies, as well as seniors in other departments who have studied playwriting at Yale, are invited to submit a portfolio of dramatic writing for consideration – two plays, at least one of them full-length.
2024
Mikayla Johnson, Saybrook College
Mikayla Johnson’s beautiful play East of Mercy, ached with the deepest look at the nature of family and memory, definitions of home, the diasporas of Blackness; the almost molecular forgiveness that comes with maternal love.
Hank Graham, Davenport College
Hank Graham is honored for his consistently excellent work, including his thesis work The Mourning Show.
2023
Elliot Lewis, Branford College
2022
Gabrielle Poisson, Pauli Murray College
Charlotte Foote, Jonathan Edwards College
2021
Marty Chandler, Ezra Stiles College
2020
Walker Caplan, Branford College
Carrie Mannino, Trumbull College
2019
Alexis “a.k.” Payne, Berkeley College
Rachel Calnek-Sugin, Silliman College
2018
Alexa Derman, Berkeley College
2017
2016
Dave Harris, Jonathan Edwards College
2015
Eric Sirakian, Jonathan Edwards College
2014
2013