NEW YORK—Working Man’s Clothes world-premiere production of Chisa Hutchinson’s She Like Girls, directed by Jared Culverhouse was named Outstanding New York Theatre, Off-Off Broadway by the GLAAD media awards. The 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards-New York honors entertainment and news media for their representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

"We are so proud of Chisa, of the production, of the entire team,” said Darcie Champagne, artistic producer of Working Man’s Clothes. “She Like Girls was a very important project for us and we are thrilled to have it so well received. We look forward to creating more work that ignites conversation."

She Like Girls played a five-week limited engagement at Off-Broadway’s Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster Street, soon to be no more), from December 2 through December 30. Inspired by true events, She Like Girls follows the story of Kia Clark, a black teen, as she struggles with brutal self-discovery in the face of a non-accepting, insular community where falling outside of the norm is difficult and dangerous. When Kia’s relationship with Marisol Feliciano moves from friendship to something more, the absence of understanding and respect in their volatile urban environment creates ripples of vehement hate. Chisa Hutchinson's She Like Girls is the story of two inner-city high school girls who fall in love and dare to challenge their world by choosing freedom over silence. The production starred Adam Belvo, Karen Eilbacher, Amelia Fowler, Jessica Gist, Ashley Noel Jones, Paul Notcie II, Lavita Shaurice, Karen Sours and Chaz Rose. The production featured scenic design by Kelly Syring, lighting design by Jake Platt and choreography bySabrina Jacob. Ryan Dorin was the sound designer, Laura Taber Bacon was the costume designer, and Darcie Champagne was the artistic producer.

Chisa Hutchinson (Playwright) earned a B.A. in Playwriting from Vassar College, studied at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center, and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. Her plays, which include She Like Girls, Sex on Sunday (or How to Make a Man Stay, Beg and Roll Over), The Subject, and Dirt Rich, have been presented by such companies as the Lark Play Development Center, Vital Theater, The BE Company, Working Man’s Clothes, City Parks Theater, and the Atlantic Theater Company. Chisa has been twice nominated for the highly selective Wasserstein Prize, twice selected as a finalist for the Weissberger Award (2009 decision pending), and chosen as a finalist for the New Generation Playwriting Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award and the Heideman Award. Currently, Chisa is a writer-in-residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas. When she returns to New York, it will be to present her thesis play, Somebody’s Daughter, at Cherry Lane, and to gear up for a production of Sex on Sunday with the BE Company.

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