Sound Designer Abe Jacob to Receive Ming Cho Lee Award
Jacob, known as “the Godfather of Sound,” will receive the lifetime achievement award at the Henry Hewes Design Awards on Oct. 23.
Awards
8 Designers Receive 2023 Henry Hewes Awards
This year’s recipients include design team dots, costume designer Brenda Abbandandolo, lighting designer Barbara Samuels, sound designer Tei Blow, media designer Kameron Neal, and puppetry designer James Ortiz.
10 Shows to Receive Biller Family Foundation Social Impact Grants
This year’s grants will support innovative and socially engaged productions at theatres in Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona.
Pew Center Announces Philadelphia-Area Grantees
Philadelphia Theatre Company and others have received project funding.
4 Playwrights Receive 2023 Helen Merrill Awards
Guadalís Del Carmen, Cassandra Medley, Aya Ogawa, and Kit Yan will each receive unrestricted cash awards of $30,000.
17 Theatremakers Among This Year’s 154 MacDowell Fellows
Selected from the second largest applicant pool in the Fellowship’s century-plus history, they join a diverse group at the residency’s New England grounds for the fall/winter term.
Playwrights Realm Names 2023 Fellows, Scratchpad Playwrights
This year’s writers are T.J.L, J.C. Pankratz, Eliana Theologides Rodriguez, Jesús I. Valles, Nimisha Ladva, Malena Pennycook, and Sarah Saltwick.
Maxwell Beer, Amy Marie Haven Are 2023 Prince Fellows
2 creative producers get a boost from a program encouraging new generations to follow in the footsteps of theatremakers like its namesake, Harold Prince.
Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival Lineup Announced
The festival will feature works from multiple transgender, nonbinary, and Two Spirit artists.
TheatreSquared Announces 3 New Commissions
Satya Chavéz, Candrice Jones, and Jonathan Norton have all been tapped to write new plays for the Arkansas theatre.
