WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Anderson Hopkins Awards trustees have named Felicia Curry, Helen Huang, Kate Eastwood Norris, and Lawrence Redmond the recipients of this yr’s awards. Each artist will obtain a $5,000 money award.

The annual award acknowledges actors and different members of the D.C. theatre group whose artistic lives exhibit nice accomplishment so far and symbolize promise for the long run. The award is given to 2 or extra recipients who’ve been performing in Washington for not less than 10 years, with not less than two performances within the final two years. The group has awarded over $80,000 so far.

The awards might be offered at a ceremony at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va. on January 23.

Curry is an award-winning D.C.-based actor who was named a D.C. stage dynamo by the Washington Post and one of many metropolis’s largest theatre begins by Washingtonian journal. She was just lately seen in Our Town at Shakespeare Theatre Company and on Broadway in Into the Woods. Curry is an organization member of Factory 449, an inventive affiliate at Ford’s Theatre, and a member of the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archives (WAPAVA). She is the winner of 1 particular person Helen Hayes Award and three ensemble Helen Hayes Awards.

Huang is an award-winning costume designer, professor, and writer whose work has been seen throughout D.C. and the nation. She is a five-time Helen Hayes Award nominee, successful for Indian Ink at Studio Theatre. She just lately designed the costumes for Studio’s People, Places, & Things and Quixote Nuevo at Round House Theatre. Her work ranges from elaborate interval costumes to items for on a regular basis life.

Norris is at the moment starring in Round House Theatre’s manufacturing of The Tempest. She is a veteran of the American Shakespeare Center and received a Helen Hayes Award for her efficiency as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Folger Theatre. She is an organization member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the place she received one other Helen Hayes Award for her efficiency in She Stoops to Comedy.

Redmond has carried out in over 150 reveals throughout D.C. phases over 4 a long time. He is a two-time Helen Hayes Award winner and nine-time nominee, along with three ensemble awards. Redmond is at the moment performing in Signature Theatre’s manufacturing of Into the Woods.

Established in 2017, the Anderson Hopkins Awards for Excellence within the Theatre Arts are given to artists within the Washington, D.C. group who’ve enriched D.C. theatre with their contributions. It is made yearly to a number of artists, on the discretion of the donor.

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