Sci-Fi Play Wins Prize In The Kumu Kahua Theatre/Uhm Theatre Department Contest

HONOLULU, HI  Kumu Kahua Theatre and the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Theatre and Dance Department proudly announces the winners of their 2009 playwriting contest. The winner of the $600 Hawai‘i Prize is Troy M. Apostol of Aiea, Hawai‘i for his Sci-Fi parable,Aloha from the World of Tomorrow.  Feng Feng Hutchins of Pearl City is the winner of the $250 Resident Prize for the play The Ghost Wedding.  The Pacific/Rim Prize will not be awarded this year.

Kumu Kahua productions are made possible with support from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i, and the National Endowment for the Arts; The Annenberg Foundation; Paid for in part by the taxpayers of the City & County of Honolulu; the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.