Erika Dickerson-Despenza and her play "cullud wattah" have won the the 43rd Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and $25,000 The play is about a family of Black women struggling to survive during the Flint, Michigan water crisis. "I wrote this play specifically for Black women on the margins of the margins," Dickerson-Despenza says in her acceptance speech,...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:14PM on April 7, 2021