TDF’s Design-Focused Sharaff Awards Return for In-Person Fête
This year’s honorees include costume designers Fred Voelpel and Dede Ayite, scenic designer Eugene Lee, and visual artist Michael Curry.
Category Archives: Awards
TheFrontOffice Foundation Launches Grant for Mid-Career Women Directors
The $25,000 award is intended both to honor a deserving artist and to keep a spotlight on persistent gender-based inequity in the field.
Zharia O’Neal Is Sound Theatre’s First William S. Yellow Robe Playwright
O’Neal will receive a $10,000 stipend, travel and housing reimbursement, and will teach a playwriting course and develop a comedy about black women in reality television; Finalists of the residency will receive honaria
Christina Anderson Named 2022 Recipient of Annual Horton Foote Prize
Anderson will receive the $50,000 award for her play ‘the ripple, the wave that carried me home’ at an event on Oct. 24.
Mary Kathryn Nagle Is First KCRep American Crossroads Resident Playwright
An attorney on the frontline of Native American rights, and the playwright of ‘Sovereignty’ and ‘Manahatta,’ Nagle will create a work inspired by stories of the region.
Playwrights Realm Announces 2022-23 Cohort of Writers
The company is launching another fellowship program to lower barriers for playwrights entering the industry.
7 Early Career Designers Receive 1/52 Project Grants
Each of the inaugural recipients of these grants, designed to support a diverse pool of designers in all disciplines, will receive grants up to $15,000.
Producer Lamar Richardson Is Named 2022 Front Row Fellow
The fellowship. designed to support young producers of color, grants the recipient a $10,000 stipend and a $20,000 budget to cover the costs of developing a new show.
15 Theatre Artists Among 129 MacDowell Resident Fellows
This year’s cohort, its first at full capacity since COVID, includes such familiar theatre names as Dave Malloy, Anne Washburn, and Sanaz Toossi.
Melis Aker Is Signature Theatre’s Inaugural LaunchPad Resident
The residency includes two $15,000 commissions, a full production, a theatregoing stipend, a writing retreat, mentorship, and more.
