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Rich Espey

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Rich Espey is an American playwright from Baltimore, Maryland. His plays include Hope's Arbor, which won the Carol Weinberg Award in 2006; Fifty-Fifty which won top honors at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival in 2003; Martha’s Choice; Near and Far; Potter County, named Best Production of 2005-2006 by the Baltimore City Paper; and Ben’s Extraordinary Experiment!.[1][2][3]

Hope's Arbor, Espey's most highly regarded play, premiered in Baltimore in 2007, and then ran at the Gallery Players in New York City in 2008.[4][5] The New York production starred Lauren Marcus and Justine Campbell-Elliott.

References

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  1. ^ Single Carrot Debuts with Winning Short Play Fest, Broadway World, January 19, 2007
  2. ^ Dance, Listen, Watch, The Washington Post, Aug 7, 2003
  3. ^ Baltimore Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2004
  4. ^ "REVIEW: BPF at Spotlighter's: Hope's Arbor".
  5. ^ http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=hope6555 [permanent dead link]