Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
NEW YORK CITY: Dramatists Guild of America has introduced six preliminary DG Award recipients. The Hull-Warriner Award will go to Samuel D. Hunter for A Case for the Existence of God and Sanaz Toossi for English. This is the one award given by dramatists to fellow dramatists. It is offered yearly by the Dramatists Guild Council to an creator or group of authors in recognition of a play coping with controversial topics involving the fields of political, spiritual, or social mores of the occasions.
The finalists for this 12 months’s Hull-Warriner Award are Joshua Harmon for Prayer for the French Republic, James Ijames for Fat Ham, Mona Monsour for The Vagrant Trilogy, and Bruce Norris for Downstate.
The recipient of this 12 months’s Flora Roberts Award is Caridad Svich. Administered by the Dramatists Guild Foundation, this award is offered to a dramatist in recognition of distinguished work within the theatre and to encourage the continuation of that work.
The Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award is offered by the Dramatists Guild Council in recognition of distinguished lifetime achievement in theatrical writing. The guild will current two Lifetime Achievement Awards this 12 months: to cartoonist/playwright/screenwriter Jules Feiffer and to the writing group of Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford (I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road).
The DG Awards will probably be offered at Joe’s Pub on Monday, May 15. The ceremony is open to the general public with restricted tickets accessible. Recipients for the Dramatists Guild’s different awards, together with the Horton Foote Award, the Frederick Loewe Award, the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund Defender Award, and the Lanford Wilson Award will probably be introduced on awards evening.
Founded in 1919, the Dramatists Guild of America is an expert affiliation for playwrights, librettists, lyricists, and composers writing for the American stage. With over 10,000 members all over the world, the Guild is guided by a governing council of writers who every give their time, curiosity, and help to advance the rights of dramatists in every single place. The Guild’s advocacy, applications, occasions, publications, and different service purpose to offer dramatists with the sources, the neighborhood, and the help they require to guard their property, their livelihoods, and their distinctive voices within the American theatre.