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Playwright-in-Residence and Artistic Director of Family Theatre, Barry Kornhauser has received the AATE Distinguished Play Award, the IRT/Bonderman Playwriting Prize, an ASSITEJ International Observership and its "Best Plays of the Decade" commendation, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant, and NEA/TCG award. This Is Not A Pipe Dream, Warped, Better Angels, Thunder and Potatoes, Calibanana, Worlds Apart, Honey & Sting, Power Play and A Christmas Carol are some of his titles. Among his directing projects is the Fulton's annual Youtheatre program. An ensemble of at-risk, disabled and disadvantaged teens, Youtheatre was recently one of ten companies chosen nationwide to lead a new NEA initiative, and a winner of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts' "Keystones of Accessibility" Award. Barry has taught theatre everywhere from a one-room Amish schoolhouse to the University of New Mexico, and his HIV/AIDS prevention theatre project, created under a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, won the state's "Best Practices" honor. As playwright and/or director, his work has taken him to such venues as the San Diego Theatre of the World Festival, the New Play Festival of NYC's Provincetown Playhouse, the Bonderman Festival, the Smithsonian, and both the Kennedy Center's "New Visions/New Voices" and "One Theatre World" events. Barry was the recipient of the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania's first Educational Theatre Award for "outstanding service by an individual for the advancement of theatre education in the Commonwealth." His newest work, Spark, was selected as a featured program of the National Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Celebration and is part of this season's Fulton Family series and tour. Barry's verse adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, the Fulton's 2000-2001 season opener, remounted by Michael Kahn at the acclaimed Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, was the winner of four 2005 Helen Hayes Awards including "Outstanding Play." Barry serves on various panels of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Councils on the Arts and the Heinz Endowments. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Franklin & Marshall College where his wife Carol works and sons Max and Sam attend. His daughter Ariel completes his real-life's cast of "characters."