Harris Award
Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award
This award was created in 1997 to honor the late Aurand Harris (1915-1996) for his lifetime dedication to all aspects of professional theatre for young audiences.
A panel of judges named by the NETC Executive Board will administer this award. Two cash prizes will be awarded: First Prize of $1000, and Second Prize of $500. The judges may withhold prizes if in their opinion no play merits the award.
A staged reading of the prize-winning scripts may be given, followed by critique and discussion.
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2007 Aurand Harris Winners
- 2007 By Candlelight by Claudia Haas, (1st)
- 2007 Drama For Dionysus by Johanna Halperin, (2nd)
2006 Aurand Harris Winners
- 2006 Telling William Tell by Evan Guilford-Blake, (1st)
- 2006 Yorkshire Fairytale by Thomas H. Diggs, (2nd)
Previous Aurand Harris Winners
- 2005 The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Albert T. Viola, (1st)
- 2005 Alice in War by Steven Bogart, (2nd)
- 2004 No winners
- 2003 In the Garden of the Selfish Giant by Sandra Fenichel Asher
- 2002 The Life of Aesop by Kenneth Cavander
- 2001 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Mary and Andrew Arnault
- 2000 Riding the Wind by Carol Korty
- 1999 Searching for David's Heart by Cherie Bennett
- 1998 Devon's Hurt by Laurie Brooks Gollobin, (1st)
- 1998 The Printer's Devil by David Paul Simon, (2nd)
- 1997 Inauguration of Harris Award by Lowell Swortzell