Immigrant Theatre Artists Lauded With 2016 Vilcek Prizes
Blanka Zizka, Sarah Benson, Desdemona Chiang, and Yi Zhao are this year’s honorees.
Awards
USITT Announces 2016 Young Designers & Technicians Awards
Recent graduates and students in their final semester of graduate programs are lauded for their work behind the scenes.
Pivot Arts Announces the 2016 Incubator Program Lineup
Three new works will be developed at Loyola University.
LMDA Announces 2016 Bly Fellowship and Grant Recipients
Grant winners include dramaturgs from Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Canada.
Columbia University Announces Finalists for Edward M. Kennedy Prize
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Qui Nguyen are this year’s finalists.
Public Theater Announces 10 Playwrights for 2016–17 Emerging Writers Group
The company named the writers who will be part of its new-work development program for 2016–17.
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Announces 2015–16 Finalists
Ten female playwrights from the U.S. and the U.K. are nominated, with the winner to be announced Feb. 22.
Ars Nova Announces 2016 Resident Artists and New-Work Programs
The new-play incubator and creative home opens its doors for emerging artists to develop work.
Christopher Demos-Brown, Sarah Burgess Receive the Laurents/Hatcher Award
Monetary awards will be given to each playwright and to the theatres producing the premiere productions of their plays.
Stacey Luftig and Daniel Goldstein Recieve Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre
The awards are bestowed to musical theatre librettists and lyricists in honor of ‘Chorus Line’ lyricist Edward L. Kleban.
