Awards and Honors, Alumni News
Kempson '95 Receives PEN America Playwriting Award
Sibyl Kempson '95 is the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-career.
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This distinguished honor is awarded to a playwright working at the highest level of achievement in mid-career. According to PEN, Kempson receives this award, "For her fine craft, intertextual approach, and her body of work including Crime or Emergency and Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag."