"The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award recognizes new plays and performance texts by women and genderqueer writers for the stage that present a feminist perspective and include significant roles for female-identified performers. This annual award, established in 1984, is given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers, who—through her plays A Late Snow, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, My Blue Heaven, Kudzu, and The Quintessential Image—became a major feminist voice in American theatre. The award welcomes experimentation and understands feminism to refract across a diversity of experiences with regard to race, sexuality, gender, geography, class, dis/ability, and culture. This finalist list features the NPX Playwrights who have been selected as finalists for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award."—playwright Kate Busselle