Dead Youth, or The Leaks by Joyelle McSweeney is the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. Runners-up are Afall / Trauma by Angela Rawlings and Gagged by Hannah Silva. The award will presented, with a reading of the winning play directed by Fiona Templeton, on Monday October 14th at 6:30pm at the New Ohio Theatre,154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014.