Neil Wechsler Wins Yale Drama Award
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Neil Wechsler’s “Grenadine” has been named the winner of the 2008 Yale Drama Series Award, the school announced Monday. As part of the award, established last year to support emerging playwrights, Yale University Press will publish Mr. Wechsler’s play and Yale Repertory Theatre will host a reading of it. The award comes with a $10,000 cash prize.
Mr. Wechsler, who lives in Buffalo, graduated in 1996 from Yale, where he studied philosophy and psychology.
The judge for the 2008 award was the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. Next year’s judge will be British playwright David Hare.
