The Barbour Award was created in 2007 to celebrate new work for the theatre. For this annual event, EAG partners with one local theatre company, playwriting program, or playwrights collective. Our partnering company nominates three playwrights to be finalists for the award and then we work together to present a staged reading of one not-yet-produced play by each finalist at our unique and historic theatre at Guild Hall  (1 East 29th Street, NYC 10016). The Award culminates in one playwright receiving a $500 cash prize for their work.
Kristine M. Reyes is a Filipina-American playwright raised and based in New York City. Her work has been performed in NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and San Francisco and has been presented by ABC/Disney Talent Showcase, Primary Stages, Queens Theatre, The Tank, Theater Mu, Leviathan Lab and Bindlestiff Studio, among others. Eggs on Ice was a semifinalist for The O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and was a nominee for the Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project. It received a workshop production at Hawai’i Pacific University in 2021 and a high school production at George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Maryland in 2022. She was a 2014-15 Fellow at The Dramatists Guild Foundation and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America. www.kristinemreyes.com
ATLANTIC PACIFIC THEATRE is an independent theater & creative storytelling company that crafts narratives for the theatre & cinema, public history programs, and community-engaged experiences for and with communities of color. Through formal experiments and partnership-driven projects, APT aims to enhance visibility, awareness, and understanding around POC histories and identities in local and transnational contexts. The company's underpinning values of cross cultural exchange and pluralism center their work on intimate polycultural experiences that reach across geographical and socially constructed borders.
Partner with The Barbour Award
Our 2024 application period has closed. Thank you to all who applied. Please check back in January 2025 if your company is interested in applying to be our 2025 Barbour Award partner.​​

2025 Timeline:
  • January: EAG will accept applications/finalist nominations from potential partnering companies.
  • February: The Barbour Committee will review all submissions.
  • March: EAG will announce our partnering company and the finalist playwrights.
  • June: The three Barbour Award readings will take place in Guild Hall (1 East 29th St, NYC 10016).
  • July: The winning playwright will be announced.
The Barbour Award was established and endowed by Janet Barbour Carhart, Alison Barbour Fox, and from a portion of the gift left to EAG by Mr. Thomas Barbour’s estate. All proceeds from the staged readings of the Barbour finalists’ plays goes directly to supporting future Barbour Awards.

Thomas Barbour was a dedicated supporter of the theatre, emerging playwrights, and the Episcopal Actors’ Guild. On stage and screen, Mr. Barbour had a prolific acting career, including featured roles in Arthur with Dudley Moore and The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones. Off-stage, Mr. Barbour worked tirelessly on behalf of EAG, serving many years as Treasurer and Vice-President. Under his leadership, the Guild’s scholarship program grew from two annual awards of $500 to five annual awards of $1,000. Mr. Barbour also co-founded Polaris North and was a long-time member of the Perry Street Block Association.
Past Award Winners
2008 - Jack Frankel, Human Voices (Polaris North)
2009 - Alisha Silver, Golden (Hunter College)
2010 - (tie) Lynn Rosen, Apple Cove, and Laura Eason, 40 Days (Women’s Project)
2011 - Ian August, Donna Orbits the Moon (NJ Rep)
2012 - Aaron Jafferis, How to Break (HERE)
2013 - Bill Cosgriff, Rio Rita (ARTC)
2014 - Mark Karafin, Man in the Moon (Oberon Theatre Ensemble)
2015 - Dara O’Brien, Early Sunday Morning (Resonance Ensemble)
2016 - Perry Guzzi, Across the Way (HB Studios)
2017 - Andrea J. Fulton, A Punk or A Gentleman (Theater for a  New City)
2018 - Alexis Roblan, The Andrew Play (New Perspectives Theatre Company)
2019 - Reynaldo Piniella, Black Doves (Quick Silver Theater Company) 
2020 - As a result of COVID-19 disrupting our 2020 Barbour readings, the award was split between all three finalists: Garrett David Kim, Cherry Lou Sy, and Ray Yamanouchi (Leviathan Lab)
2021 - Garrett David Kim, Are You There Truman? (Leviathan Lab)
2022 - Jon Krupp, Kilonova (Playwrights Gallery)
2023 - Stephen Kaplan, Un Hombre: A Golem Story (The Skeleton Rep(resents))
2024 - Kristine M. Reyes, Eggs on Ice (Atlantic Pacific Theatre)
The Andrew Play
"The Andrew Play" by Alexis Roblan, winner of the 2018 Barbour Award
Black Doves
"Black Doves" by Reynaldo Piniella, winner of the 2019 Barbour Award
Black Doves
"Are You There Truman?" by Garrett David Kim, winner of the 2021 Barbour Award
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"Kilonova" by Jon Krupp, winner of the 2022 Barbour Award

Questions?

Director of Operations and Development Rebecca Lovett can help with the Barbour Award.