Marilyn Schotland

HONORS & AWARDS

• Winner – Jewish Plays Project & Plays2Gather OOF!: On One Foot 10 Minute Play Festival for “Zay Gezunt, Havana!” (2024)
• Playwright Observer – National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (2024)
• The National Partners of the American Theatre Julie Jensen Playwriting Award – Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for “Perihelion” (2023)
• Playwriting Fellow – Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices (2022)
• Featured Script – ‘Scripts About Astronomy’ on New Play Exchange for “Perihelion” (2021)
• Semi-Finalist – Jewish Plays Project for “The Dybbuk on Orchard” (2021)
• The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry – University of Michigan Hopwood Awards (2018)
• Nominee – Bettering American Poetry Anthology for “Salt Ritual in B-Minor” (2016)

SELECTED WORKS — PLAYS

• “Somewhere Someone is Traveling Furiously Towards You” – read on New Play Exchange
• “Perihelion” – read on New Play Exchange
• “The Dybbuk on Orchard” – read on New Play Exchange

SELECTED WORKS — POETRY

• “Boychik” published as part of the Summer Micro Chap Series by Ghost City Press (2019)
• “Photograph of My Mother in Havana with Rabbits” & “The King of Swords” published in Crab Fat Magazine (2019)
• “No More Laurel Trees Until I Have Evaporated” published in “The Anatomy of Desire: An Anthology of Distance” (2018)
• “Sebastian Redux” published in Glass Poetry Press (2018)
• “The Arrest of Christ” published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal (2018)
• “(Trans)versal” published in The Ellis Review (2018)
• “Boychik” published in Cotton Xenomorph (2018)
• “Bacchus, to the Dead Boy” published in OCCULUM (2017)
• “Salt Ritual in B Minor” published in L’Éphémère Review (2016)