Gloria Majule ’17, a Performing and Media Arts alum who graduated summa cum laude, is the winner of a 2023 Leah Prize for her play Culture Shock. The prize included a $5,000 cash award and the play had a public reading in July 2023 at Vassar College. “Majule’s play concerns two African students, Zahra from Tanzania and Hawi from Kenya, at an Ivy League institution who are placed in Salama House, an all-Black dorm and affinity space for Black students. Faced with cultural, academic, and economic challenges, Zahra and Hawi try to make it through freshman year, while reckoning with the reality of what it means to be Black in America,” says American Theatre Magazine.
“The Leah Ryan Fund began giving out its annual prize in 2010 to honor the memory of Ryan, a woman who wrote plays, poetry, essays, lyrics, and adaptations, and to encourage and support the work of brilliant and unrecognized women, trans, and non-binary playwrights.”
Read more about the play and the Leah Prize in American Theatre Magazine.
