Patricia Rose Brady | Courtesy of Patricia Rose Brady
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At the beginning of April, we told you about Patricia Rose Brady, an 18-year-old senior at Lake Gibson High school who had become a finalist in Theatre Odyssey’s  Student 10-Minute Playwriting Festival. 

On May 11, at Asolo Repertory Theatre, in Sarasota, Brady took the top award at the festival, the 2025 Verna Safran Prize.  

Her play “A Memory Away,” about a mother’s grief after a school shooting, was an audience favorite and earned Brady $1,000.

For the next year, Lake Gibson High will be home to a plaque with the previous winners and now with Brady’s name.

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Robert Meyerowitz has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. He covered Central America and the Middle East, he was the cofounder and editor of the Anchorage Press in Alaska, and he taught journalism at the University of Alaska. He comes to Lakeland from Park City, Utah, where he edited The Park Record.

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