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| | Playbill News: Taylor Mac First Winner of P.S. 122'S New Ethyl Eichelberger Award |
 | | Taylor Mac has been named the first recipient of the Ethyl Eichelberger Award, a new prize to be given out annually by downtown Manhattan theatre institution P.S. Eichelberger was the trail-blazing New York performance artist who died in 1990 at the age of 55. |
 | | An Obie-winner, Eichelberger trained with Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company and later worked on his own, writing nearly 40 plays portraying women such Jocasta, Medea, Nefertiti, Clytemnestra, and Lucrezia Borgia. |
 | | Finalists for the Ethyl Eichelberger Award were Theater Askew, Bradford Louryk, Julie Atlas Muz, Radiohole, Lavinia Co-op, David Neumann, John Collins and Mac. |
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