AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Claude Solnik has won numerous honors and awards as a playwright (as well as a journalist), including his designation as playwright in residence at Theater for the New City. He has won additional recognition from festivals in addition to a long string of awards for journalism along with regular publication in Newsday, publication in The New York Times, New York Daily News, Village Voice and others. He has won First Place for Local News from the NY Press Association, a
Public Service Journalism award in the Folio Awards, first and second place for Investigative Reporting, first place for Feature Story and honors for In-depth Reporting all from the New York Associated Press. He also
PLAYWRIGHT IN RESIDENCE
Claude Solnik is playwright in residence at Theater For the New City,  which has presented dozens of his full-length plays. Thousands have seen them and they have garnered a long list of positive reviews.
TOP TEN PLAYS OF THE YEAR
"A Life in the Rye" obtained good reviews and the play, directed by Joe John Battista, was then named among the Ten Best Plays of the Year by TheaterScene.Net.