The playwright, filmmaker and performance artist Keegon Schuett recently received the prestigious Yale Drama Series Prize for their play “this dry spell,” an acclaimed production that, as Schuett describes it, celebrates trans identity “at a time when many places would like to erase us.”
Schuett, a playwright, filmmaker, and performance artist from Memphis, Tennessee who currently works with a collective of writers through Voices of the South, was honored during a recent reception at Yale Schwarzman Center and presented with the $10,000 David Charles Horn Prize. Their play was selected from more than 2,000 plays from 55 countries.
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