IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY announces the winner of the 2016 Mario Fratti Award: BUTTERFLIES by Emanuele Aldrovandi. Presented annually to an emerging Italian playwright, the winning play is translated into English and the playwright receives a specially commissioned lithograph by artist Victoria Febrer.

The award is named after Mario Fratti, the internationally acclaimed playwright and drama critic best known as a book writer on the Tony and Drama Desk Award winning musical Nine. The play will be translated into English by Carlotta Brentan, the official translator of the Mario Fratti Award.

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