Rachel Calnek-Sugin, Silliman College

Rachel Calnek-Sugin, a playwright whose tender first work, FLUSH, looked with insight, compassion, and tenderness at very young women in a high-school setting, that moment when young women come into a power that takes away their power; and whose next play asks questions about the women partners of male white supremacists, the lies they tell themselves; the playwright succeeds in finding both the banality and the humanity in them.