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Charlotte Brathwaite (photograph by Barbara Anastacio) and Kristina Wong.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong> Among the honorees in numerous reside performing arts, this 12 months\u2019s Doris Duke Artist Awards will go to 2 theatre artists, director Charlotte Brathwaite and performer and author Kristina Wong, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation<\/a> has introduced. The awards honor artists reworking the fields of dance, jazz, and theatre. The basis will rejoice the tenth anniversary of the awards with their first in-person awards ceremony final night time, Feb. 13, at Lincoln Center<\/a>. This 12 months\u2019s Doris Duke Artist Awards recipients will every obtain a present of $550,000, almost doubling the purse from earlier years and cementing this system\u2019s legacy as the biggest award for particular person performing artists.<\/p>\n Brathwaite has developed tasks on the Shed<\/a> and the Kennedy Center,<\/a> and is presently collaborating with artists Cauleen Smith and Helga Davis on a brand new mission. Brathwaite works throughout genres to welcome audiences as each spectators and individuals. Her work has been introduced on the Whitney Museum of American Art,<\/a> the Park Avenue Armory,<\/a> and the High Line,<\/a> amongst different venues around the globe. She acquired her MFA from the Yale School of Drama<\/a> and is an assistant professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/a><\/p>\n Wong, a comic, author, and performer, is finest recognized for the one-woman play\u00a0Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord<\/a><\/em>, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The play additionally received the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Wong is the founding father of the\u00a0Auntie Sewing Squad<\/a>, a nationwide mutual assist community of volunteers who sewed fabric masks for weak communities on the onset of the COVID pandemic; their work was the impetus for\u00a0Sweatshop Overlord<\/em>. Wong is presently the artist in residence on the\u00a0Arizona State University Gammage<\/a>\u00a0theatre program, and is the\u00a0Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<\/a>\u00a0Social Practice Resident. Wong is presently engaged on her subsequent mission, #FoodBankInfluencer<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n The Doris Duke Artist Awards put money into exemplary particular person artists in modern dance, jazz, theatre, and associated interdisciplinary work who’ve demonstrated their creative vitality and dedication to their discipline. They are introduced by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which works to enhance the standard of individuals\u2019s lives by grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical analysis, and baby well-being. As of 2020, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation had an approximate funds of $121 million.<\/p>\n