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05/01/07

            Larry Parr’s plays, beginning with the musical biography of Hattie McDaniel, HI-HAT HATTIE, have been produced in regional theaters all across the United States.  HI-HAT HATTIE won Kansas City’s Drama Desk Award for Best Musical.  Mr. Parr was three times a Florida Individual Artist Recipient, for HI-HAT HATTIE, INVASION OF PRIVACY, and HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW, twice the winner of Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater’s Annual Play Competition with MY CASTLE’S ROCKIN’ and SUNDEW, and a winner of Florida Studio Theatre’s Short Play Competition nine years in a row.  He won STAGES ’93 and the 1994 Porter Fleming Playwriting Competition.  In 1995, he became the first white playwright produced in the history of the National Black Theatre Festival with the production of MY CASTLE’S ROCKIN’.  INVASION OF PRIVACY won the 1999 Gold Coast Players best-play award and The National Arts Club’s Playwrights First Award in Manhattan. 

            In 2000, Florida Studio Theatre presented him with the Barbara Anton Playwriting Award.  The American Cinema Foundation awarded him their first prize for his screenplay about Hattie McDaniel, also entitled HI-HAT HATTIE.  In 2002, he was chosen as a participant in The Floridian Project with HARRY T. MOORE; THE MOST HATED MAN IN FLORIDA.  The Sarasota County Arts Council awarded him the John Ringling Fellowship Grant for HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW.  He teaches playwriting at Florida Studio Theatre.

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