Hunter College congratulates MFA Playwriting alum Jesse Jae Hoon ’23 for winning the prestigious Terrence McNally Award.
The award by Rattlestick Theater’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator supports ambitious early-career playwrights and honors the late American Theater Hall of Famer Terrence McNally, often called “the bard of American theater.” Hoon was selected from 500 applicants for the prize, which entails a $7,500 stipend and a three-week workshop and public presentation of a work at the Rattlestick Theater.
“Jesse is a bold and imaginative artist with a singular voice, and we are so thrilled he’s receiving this recognition,” said Christine Scarfuto, director of the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter’s Theatre Department.
The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College is a highly selective, rigorous, and affordable two-year playwriting program that has proved itself as an incubator of the nation’s top talent by seeking writers who challenge assumptions about what theatre is and will become.
