Larry Parr
Sarasota, FL
Biography

Larry Parr has had over one hundred regional productions. 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, The National Arts Club’s Playwrights First Award in Manhattan, Ashland New Play Festival, and Theatre Conspiracy’s New Play Competition.

In 2000, and in 2010, Florida Studio Theatre presented him with the Barbara Anton Playwriting Aw