The tenth winner of the Yale Drama Series centers on a young mother dealing with life&;s many trials Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend&;s powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her on-again, off-again husband Chris is eternally optimistic and charming as hell, but rarely employed. The house is falling apart and Amber has an eight-year-old&;s birthday party to plan.   Selected from more than 1,600 entries, Schwend&;s newest play&;produced by the Amoralists Theatre Company at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2016&;vividly captures the economic hardships and relationship difficulties faced by so many Americans today. &;Utility is a remarkable play: beautifully written and effortlessly powerful,&; said contest judge Nicholas Wright. &;At every moment the happiness of human lives is put at risk: is there any greater dramatic theme?&;