NEW YORK CITY: The Legacy Playwrights Initiative has named Carlyle Brown and Milcha Sanchez-Scott the recipients of the 2022 Legacy Playwright Awards. The initiative shines a light-weight on the achievements and affect of playwrights whose work has fallen out of the general public eye, providing a pathway for rediscovery and monetary help for the exigencies of late life.
“I am deeply gratified and honored to receive a Legacy Playwright Initiative Award,” Brown, who was honored at a gala final fall alongside Sanchez-Scott, mentioned in an announcement. “To be encouraged in your twilight, in your third act, and supported just when one may be on the cusp of a creative expansion, are the rarest of gifts. As a young man I marveled that Goethe wrote Faust when he was 80. Now, it
doesn’t seem so far-fetched.”
Brown is a playwright, performer, curator, and inventive director of Carlyle Brown & Company in Minneapolis. An alumnus of New Dramatists and a Lifetime Core Writer on the Playwrights’ Center, Brown’s works have been produced at theatres throughout the nation and around the globe. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, amongst many different accolades, and has been an artist in residence and visiting professor at a number of universities. Brown has additionally labored as a museum exhibit author and story advisor, and is the curator of the Cultural Diaspora Playwrights Residency on the Camargo Foundation, the place he’s a trustee, and the Afro-Atlantic Playwrights’ Festival on the Playwrights’ Center. Brown is at present an Andrew W. Mellon Playwright in Residence at Illusion Theater.
“I am humbled, honored, grateful, and so happy to receive the Legacy Playwright Award,” Sanchez-Scott mentioned in an announcement. “This honor will help me work on my first musical and continue work on a play about an elderly living facility and the characters within.”
Sanchez-Scott, who born in Bali and grew up in San Diego, is a graduate of the University of San Diego. She has had six performs produced and is at present engaged on the mariachi musical Leti’s Wedding. Sanchez-Scott is a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation’s First Level Award for American playwrights, the Vesta Award, and the Lecompte du Nouy Foundation Award. She is a former member of INTAR Theatre’s Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Laboratory, directed by María Irene Fornés.
The Legacy Playwrights Initiative grants two financial awards, advocates for skilled productions of legacy playwrights’s works, reissues beforehand revealed performs, and movies interviews to spotlight legacy playwrights’s careers. It is supported by the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation and the Dramatists Guild Foundation.
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