Discipline: Playwriting
Based In: Louisville, KY
Year at Millay: 2010
Awards/Honors: Award Winner, M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, Best New Play by an Emerging Playwright, American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, New York, NY (2015); Award Winner, the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights, Portland Stage, Portland, ME (2012); Fellow, Jerome Playwriting Fellowship, Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN (1994–1995); Award Winner, Lorraine Hansberry Award, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (1987); Award Winner, Edgerton Foundation National New Play Awards, Los Angeles, CA; Award Winner, The Oscar Hammerstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre, New York, NY.
Tom Coash is a Louisville, Kentucky playwright, producer, and teacher. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards, including the Osborn Award from the National Theatre Critics Association, the Clauder Competition, and an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award and his plays have been produced worldwide. Coash currently teaches scriptwriting at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.