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Erika Dickerson-Despenza wins 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Award by Jonathan Mandell

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

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