Rona Siddiqui, winner of the Mark O'Donnell Prize
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alum Rona Siddiqui (cycle 21) received the 2025 Mark O'Donnell Prize, an annual prize awarded by The Entertainment Community Fund and Playwrights Horizons to “America’s most anomalous, singular and curious emerging writers, composers, directors and designers.”
Siddiqui is a composer and lyricist whose autobiographical show THE BROWN MUSICAL: A NEW BROWN MUSICAL, was developed at Playwrights Horizons. The award includes the use of The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center for one week to develop a reading of a new work, a cash prize, and counseling on affordable housing and obtaining health insurance.
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