“ It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Claire Tran and their play Steel Cutter as a finalist for our 2017 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 55 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers responded to the play’s wonderful mixture of theatricality, realism and magical realism contained within a winning story about a Vietnamese family in America. ”