- New York City’s Lark Play Development Center has named playwright Rogelio Martinez as the inaugural recipient of the Lark Mid-Career Playwright Fellowship. Martinez will receive program support for two years, stipends totaling $40,000, $5,000 in travel and research funds and $10,000 in production subsidies.
- The Princess Grace Awards are being held this month, recognizing excellence and promise in theatre, dance and film. Among the awardees in theatre are Tom Dugdale, Michael Haverty, Joel Jimenez, Jared Mezzocchi, Matthew P. Olmos, Vincent Richards, M. Meriweather Snipes and Henry Wishcamper. Additionally, previous winners Patrick Page and Darron L. West won the Princess Grace Statue Award, containing $25,000. Special project awards went to Gisela Cardenas, Clove Galilee and A. Rey Pamatmat. Paul Warner received a works-in-progress residency award.
- The New York Musical Theatre Festival concluded in July with its annual awards announcement. Among the awardees was Michael Ogborn, who won the music-writing award for best-of-fest winner Baby Case, and tied for the lyric-writing award with Ellen M. Schwartz, who wrote A Letter to Harvey Milk. Milk also won for promising musical, for book writer Jerry James and actors Jeff Keller and Leslie Kritzer.
- Marin Theatre Company in California has chosen the winners of its two national new play prizes. Seven Spots on the Sun by Martin Zimmerman won the Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, with a purse of $10,000 and consideration for full production. Light by Meghan Kennedy won the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, with $2,500 and a developmental workshop.
- Denise Astorino has won the 2012–13 directing fellowship from Cleveland Public Theatre. Astorino will receive $3,000 and full underwriting of her educational and artistic activities for a year.
- This month, the Berkeley Community Fund, in California, will present Susan Medak, managing director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, with the Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal. The honor, established in 1929, is for an individual who has contributed substantially to the Berkeley community.
- Chicago’s Stage Left Theatre announced the recipients of its second annual Downstage Left Playwright Residencies. The playwrights whose work will be developed over the course of a season are Kristin Idaszak, with The Liar Paradox, and Bilal Dardai, with The Abacus.
- In July, the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis announced its new group of core writers, who will receive artistic support from the center until June 2015. The writers are George Brant, Carlyle Brown, Constance Congdon, Christine Evans, Carson Kreitzer and Gregory Moss.
- At its 2012 Conference in Atlanta in June, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conferred the Elliott Hayes Award for outstanding dramaturgy to Douglas Langworthy for his work in Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of Ruined, by Lynn Nottage.
- At the Conservatory Awards luncheon this month, American Conservatory Theater will recognize its alumni and donors. The recipients are actors Benjamin Bratt and Anika Noni Rose and director Ryan Rilette; and donors Deedee and Burt McMurtry, and the Bernard Osher Foundation.
- Honolulu Theatre for Youth in Hawaii has honored its outreach/special events coordinator Carolyn Kishi with the Nancy Corbett Award, for her work at HTY.
- The Ensemble Theatre in Houston had its annual gala in August, where actors Ben Vereen, Glynn Turman and Melissa Greggs, along with donor Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line, received awards.
- The Ashland New Plays Festival of Oregon has selected works by four playwrights for its 20th annual festival this month. The winning plays are The God Game by Suzanne Bradbeer, This Rough Magic by Richard Manley, How It Works by Cary Pepper and Omission by Joshua Rebell. All four playwrights will travel to Ashland for a week to workshop their plays.
- Dell’Arte International in California has announced that the 2012 Prize of Hope will be awarded to father-son duo Geoff Hoyle and Dan Hoyle. Geoff has taught at Dell’Arte school, and Dan’s first solo show was presented at Dell’Arte’s 2004 Edgefest.
- Theater Masters of Aspen, Colo., has announced the winners of its 2012 Visionary Award: playwrights Carolyn Kras and Michael Mitnick. They will both receive a commission to write a full-length play.
- Freehold Theatre Lab/Studio in Seattle has been awarded a Mayor’s Arts Award for 2012, which recognizes the accomplishments of artists and organizations committed to enriching their communities through the arts.
Awards & Prizes
Awards and prizes listed from American Theatre’s October 2012 issue.
