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Linda Daugherty is playwright in residence at Dallas Children's Theater, named as one of the country's top five children's theaters by Time magazine. More than 25 of her plays have premiered at Dallas Children's Theater, and national touring productions of her plays have been presented in more than 150 cities in 41 states. Her plays have also been produced at Stage One, The Louisville Children's Theatre; Baltimore's Children's Theater Association; Atlanta's Alliance Theatre; The Kennedy Center; Kansas City's Theatre for Young America; Richmond's Theatre IV; Portland's Northwest Children's Theatre; The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; Fort Worth's Casa Mañana Theatre; the Children's Theatre of Charlotte; Savonlinna City Theatre, Finland; the Edinburgh Festival; New York University's Department of Educational Theater; and in community theaters, colleges and schools throughout the United States. Bless Cricket, Crest Toothpaste and Tommy Tune was a winner of the Bonderman/Indiana University/Purdue University/Indiana Repertory Theatre Playwriting Competition, the Dallas-Ft. Worth Theater Critics Forum Award for New Plays and the Southwest Theatre Association's Coleman A. Jennings Award for Best Children's Script. In addition, Bless Cricket… is included in the book Theatre for Children: Fifteen Classic Plays, published by St. Martin Press, and is excerpted in the book Scenes and Monologues for Young Actors, published by Dramatic Publishing Company. Bless Cricket... is also featured in the April 2000 issue of American Theatre and the ongoing community education program, The Jellybean Conspiracy, affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City Institute for Human Development. She has received the Southwest Theatre Association's Playwright Award for Best New Children's Script, the Orlin Corey Outstanding Playwright Award, and five Dallas Theatre League nominations for Outstanding New Play. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded grants to Dallas Children's Theater productions of The Secret Life of Girls, African Tales of Earth and Sky and Coyote Tales which was also a recipient of a Theatre Communications Group grant. She has dramatized four books by celebrated children's author and illustrator Steven Kellogg.
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