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Re-Entering and Re-Discovering
It has been an extraordinarily challenging season, 2020-2021. There was no live theatre at all for the bulk of the time, and only now are things beginning again to rehearse, to develop, with first dates being set for live performances with live audiences again.
But it is very true that as all things that hibernate go deep down into the earth to regenerate, the theatre community, our country, and the entire world have been in a profound period of reflection and re-assessment of our past, present, and future.
Perhaps it is time to re-enter the world with all we have discovered about ourselves and our histories. Women artists and theatre professionals of all disciplines have been struggling and striving for parity, equity, diversity, and inclusion for so long, and it does seem like much of our world is ready for it, and that the theatre world will move forward with greater openness and respect for a wider range of voices and perspectives than we have ever known before. We are thrilled about that. We want to be theatre-makers in that world.
LPTW is entering a new time as well. We are so grateful for the Officers and Board of Directors who have worked so hard over Zoom, email, and phone, from disparate places, at odd hours, to keep our member-driven organization vibrant and thriving throughout the entire shutdown of our industry. We are excited to see what the incoming 2021-22 group of Officers and Directors are able to accomplish in the year to come. With your engagement and support, we can accomplish anything.
We also have a new website, with a new Member Portal that will, over time, house all of the activity and connectivity for our members. As we continue our outreach and collaboration with other organizations and our industry-salary research through our REDC grant, we are also trying to find new and exciting ways for our members to engage with each other and with LPTW.
We so look forward to sharing theatre--and LPTW programs--with you in person this fall, and beyond ... Shellen Lubin & Mary Hodges Co-Presidents, League of Professional Theatre Women
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Billie Allen // Phylicia Rashad Judith Light // Leigh Silverman
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Co-Presidents & Hosts - Shellen Lubin & Mary Hodges Executive VP & Awards Chair - Katrin Hilbe
Josephine Abady Award Mei Ann Teo presented by Troy Anthony
Lee Reynolds Award Stephanie Berry presented by Melody Brooks
LPTW Special Award for Meritorious Service Sheilah Rae presented by Joan D. Firestone and Joe Barros
Ruth Morley Design Award Cookie Jordan presented by Montana Blanco
Lucille Lortel Award Taylor Reynolds presented by Gina Femia
Lucille Lortel Visionary Award Meghan Finn presented by Susan Bernfield
Lifetime Achievement Award Estelle Parsons presented by Martha Gehman
“Turn It All Around” words & music by Sheilah Rae & Debra Barsha Songs sung by Estelle Parsons: “Pirates of Penzance” (Gilbert/Sullivan) / “My Prince” (Rodgers/Hart) “The Lady Lies” from Elizabeth and Essex (Katsaros/Stewart/Bramble/Enquist) “Spring Fever” (Arlen/Gershwin/Harburg)
WE ARE PATIENTLY WAITING
AFTER OVER A YEAR ON ZOOM
TO BE IN PERSON AGAIN
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR LPTW SUPPORTERS
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Government Grants: Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYS Council on the Arts, NYS Regional Economic Development Council
Foundation Support: Anonymous, The Roxanne & Henry Brandt Foundation, The Lambs Foundation, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Edith Meiser Foundation, The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Honey Waldman Fund
Company Support: Airmid Theatre Company, ATPAM, Atlantic Theater Company, Boockvor Productions, Broadway Stage Management Symposium, Courtyard World Trade Center Hotel, Drama Desk Awards, Ego Actus Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Good Works Theatre, Inc., Jane Harmon Associates, John DeSotelle Studio, Katin Shook Photography, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, MultiStages Theatre Company, Neo-Political Cowgirls, New Perspectives Theatre Company, NYWIFT, Parity Productions, Prospect Theater Company, Signature Theatre, Shoshana Medney, Starbright Floral Design, Theatre Communications Group, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Valerie Terranova Photography, Wholesale Copies, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition
Awards Committee: Katrin Hilbe, Acting Chair; Caroline Aaron, Cheryl I. Davis, Joan D. Firestone, Annemarie Hagenaars, Sheilah Rae
Lucille Lortel Committee: Linda Chapman & Katherine Kovner, Co-Chairs; Jessica Burr, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Jess Chayes, Kelli Lynn Harrison, Ari Laura Kreith, Cara Reichel, Deborah Savadge, Emily Simoness, Harriet Slaughter, Natasha Sinha, Isobel Robins Konecky (d. 2021), and Elsa Okon Rael (d. 2020)
TWA Task Force: Sherry Eaker, Kaitlin Greer, Annemarie Hagenaars, Katrin Hilbe, Katherine Hind, Tanya Khordoc, Shellen Lubin, Cara Reichel, Nancy Rhodes, Elizabeth Van Dyke
TWA Production Team: Jhanaë Kadie-Chantal Bonnick, Production Stage Manager; Zija Brubaker Lubin-West, Miriam “Max” Salzman, and Perri Sparano, Stage Managers
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Administrative Director: Jhanaë Kadie-Chantal Bonnick Press Representative: Emily Owens Bookkeeper: Thomas Kelso Intern: Perri Sparano Additional Thanks: Doug Katsaros, Susan Hilferty, Melba LaRose, Nic Faitos, Nikki Abbis
Friends of the League: Miguel Flores, Luba Mason, Darius de Haas, Jamilah Rosemond, Jacquelyn Bell, Lauren Turner, Chuck Cooper, Jason Brouillard, Susan Paulson, Doris Casap Warren, Pam Elam, Stephen DeVito, David Sumner, Johannes Jung, Cynthia Stillwell, David Hanson, Ann Muth Orlando, Madeline Zeiberg, Matthew Doyle, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Lois Farber, Elayne LeTraunik, Starlet Jacobs, Nadine Wong, Kahshanna Evans, Andrew Monohan, Sora Vernikoff, Adam Oestreicher, Judy Kuriansky, Lillian LaSalle, Angelika Sandora, Judy Davis, Eileen Sherman, Linda PurlKen Denison, Jane Lence, Arden Down, Isobel Kelinman, Amy Polan-Clarke
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The Josephine Abady Award To honor the memory of member, director, and artistic director Josephine R. Abady, a leader of the nonprofit theatre movement in the United States, this award is given annually to a mid-career director, producer, or creative director of a work of cultural diversity.
MEI ANN TEO (they/she) is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theatre and film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they create across genres, including music theatre, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theatre. Teo’s international work includes Belgium's Festival de Liege (Lyrics From Lockdown, “Truly polished, meaningful and entertaining” — New York Times); Edinburgh International Fringe (MiddleFlight, “Stunning” — Scotsman); Beijing International Festival (Labyrinth — Top 8 in Beijing News); Dim Sum Warriors the Musical by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo, composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun for National China 25-city tour; Jillian Walker’s world premiere SKiNFoLK: An American Show at the Bushwick Starr (NYTimes “Critics Pick,” NYMag’s matrix “Highbrow and Brilliant”); and Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong at Shakespeare’s Globe. Teo is the Visiting Professor of Directing at Carnegie Mellon University and the Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory.
Presented By: TROY ANTHONY is a Kentucky-born composer, director, and theatre-maker based in NYC practicing Black queer joy. He has presented work at Joe’s Pub, Musical Theatre Factory (MTF), Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, Prospect Theater Company, and 54 Below. Commissions include the Public Theater, The Shed, Atlantic Theater Company, and The Civilians. Troy has been seen in the Public Theater’s Hercules, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. He is Founding Director of the Fire Ensemble where he focuses on the intersection between music theatre and social justice. He’s also a 2019-2020 MTF Maker and current MTF Board member.
The Lee Reynolds Award In honor of Lee Reynolds, an award-winning producer who served on the League's Board of Directors, and who mentored and developed writing talent, this award is given annually to a woman (or women) active in any aspect of theatre whose work for, in, about, or through the medium of theatre has helped to illuminate the possibilities for social, cultural, or political change.
STEPHANIE BERRY’s recent stage credits include: Frankenstein at the Classic Stage Company, for all the women who thought they were Mad at Soho Repertory Theatre, and Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre. She was nominated for a 2019 Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress for her role in Sugar in Our Wounds at Manhattan Theatre Club, and a Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actress for her role in Gem of the Ocean at the Round House Theatre. Film and TV credits include: Before You Know It, O.G., Delivery Man, Invasion, No Reservations, and Finding Forrester, Luke Cage, The Last OG, Bull, Blue Bloods, Blacklist, and all the Law and Order shows. Stephanie is the recipient of an Obie Award and an AUDELCO Award for her one-woman show, The Shaneequa Chronicles. She is a recipient of the TCG/Fox Foundation Fellowship, and is a Founding Member of Blackberry Productions, a documentary theatre company. StephanieBerryactor.com.
Presented By: MELODY BROOKS is the founder and Artistic Director of New Perspectives Theatre Company. She is an award-winning producer, director, and dramaturg who has been working in the professional theatre and various educational institutions for almost 40 years. Brooks received the 2018 "Trailblazing Women and Arts Institutions Award" from Rhythm Color Associates, and the "Spirit of Hope Award" in 2015 from Speranza Theatre Company for her career-long support of women theatre artists. Brooks is a former LPTW Board Member, and was Co-Chair of the triennial LPTW Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award in 2014 and 2017, and Executive Producer of the virtual 2020 program. Brooks is a co-founder of 50/50 in 2020: Parity for Women Theatre Artists.
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Sends Love, Joy and Congratulations
To our Ensemble Artist and Great Friend
The Amazing
STEPHANIE BERRY
Actor, Writer, Activist
The LPTW Special Award for Meritorious Service The LPTW Special Award for Meritorious Service is given on occasion to a remarkable theatre woman who has demonstrated extraordinary service to the League and to the theatre community.
SHEILAH RAE had had an extensive career in theatre and music. She was a performer in Broadway musicals Fiddler on the Roof, Applause, The Rothschilds (tour), and Company. She has written numerous pop songs, been a recording artist on RCA, performed in nightclubs, sung back-up for Barry Manilow, and written several theme songs for TV. She co-created Funny, You Don’t Look Like A Grandmother which continues to play all over the country (published by Samuel French). She is lyricist and co-book writer of The Belle of Tombstone (f/k/a I Married Wyatt Earp) which has had productions across the country. She is a five-time finalist (with Michele Brourman) for the Heideman Award of the Humana Festival: Lovelines (2005), What Goes Around (2006), and The Waiter (2010), as well as Single and Active (2011), On the Page (2012). The first three were performed in the LPTW’s Short Play Festivals. Midwest New Musicals New Works Series presented all the shorts as a collection (2011) which was a finalist for the O’Neill’s National Music Theatre Conference. All These Years: The Songs of Sheilah Rae was presented by NY Theatre Barn in 2015. With Debra Barsha, she wrote Cooper Union and two Edna Ferber one-act musicals (published by Smith and Kraus). Together upcoming, they have The Helena Project (NAMT grant recipient) and From This Moment. Sheilah has won numerous songwriting awards, and was the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from NY Theatre Barn. She is a member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA, AFM Local 802, Maestra, The Dramatists Guild, a past President of the League of Professional Theatre Women, past Council of the Songwriters Guild, and Founding President Emeritus of NY Theatre Barn. She serves on the Board of the Bret Adams/Paul Reisch Foundation. www.sheilahrae.net, www.belleoftombstone.com
Presented By: JOAN D. FIRESTONE is a familiar figure in NYC’s cultural and civic communities, having held policy level positions in the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors. Her leadership strengths were honed as Assistant Director of the New York State Council on the Arts; her successful business venture as President of Primary Design Galleries; Executive Director of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Association to restore the old World’s Fair site; Director of Economic Development and Cultural Advisor to the New York City Comptroller; Special Advisor in the Arts to the NYC Schools Chancellor; and Executive Director of The Moth. An Off-Broadway theatre and events producer, Firestone maintains an active role in the theatre community in the development of innovative new works promoting social change. A former Co-President of LPTW, she serves on the Boards of The Moth, En Garde Arts, and New Yorkers for Culture and Arts (NY4C&A).
JOE BARROS is an award-winning queer director and choreographer working on Broadway, regionally, internationally, and in film, and is the Artistic Director of New York Theatre Barn which incubates original culture-shifting musicals in real time and in front of live audiences. Broadway: Gigi (associate director). Off Broadway: The Evolution of Mann, Cagney (associate director), Bastard Jones. Regional/Int'l: A Charlie Brown Christmas (National tours), Beaches (Chicago’s Drury Lane), Aida (Singapore), plus DC's Signature Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Kaixinmahua (Shanghai). Film: The Girl Who Left Home (with Paolo Montalbán). Barros is the director of 17-year-old Elise Marra’s new musical Frankie (concept album on Broadway Records with Tony Nominee Caitlin Kinnunen), the A&R Director of Theatre Barn Records (an imprint of Broadway Records), and a contributing director of Breathe: Portraits of a Pandemic. www.joebarros.com The Ruth Morley Design Award To honor the memory of costume designer Ruth Morley, who was one of our profession’s leading designers in theatre and in film and served on the League's Board of Directors, this award is given annually to a woman for outstanding work in any discipline within the field of theatrical design.
COOKIE JORDAN is a hair, make-up, and wig designer who has designed 15 Broadway shows, including Fela, Slave Play, Choir Boy, The Cher Show, Once on This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, In Transit, Eclipsed, Side Show, After Midnight, A View from the Bridge, and South Pacific. Off Broadway, she has designed All the Natalie Portmans, Girls, Fefu and Her Friends, Ain’t No Mo’, Fairview, Toni Stone, If Pretty Hurts, The Secret Life of Bees, Boseman and Lena, Fabulation, Our Lady of 121st Street, In the Blood, Daddy, Hercules in the Park. For TV, she created make-up for The Wiz Live. Cookie has been nominated for three Drama Desk Awards, one Emmy Award, received two Obie Awards, and the Henry Hewes Design Award.
Presented By: MONTANA BLANCO is a costume designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His grandmother, a lampshade artisan, inspired an early love of fabric, color, and beauty. Montana is a graduate of the Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, Brown University, and the Yale School of Drama. Prior to attending Yale, he was the Robert L. Tobin Curatorial. He is a Fellow at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. Montana is the recipient of a Special Drama Desk, the Lucille Lortel, two Henry Hewes, and two Obie awards. The LPTW Lucille Lortel Award In April 1999, the League received a bequest from the Lucille Lortel Estate requesting that a fund be established and maintained by the League to support The Lucille Lortel Grant. Each year the Lucille Lortel Committee visits many theatre productions, giving this award and monetary grant to an aspiring woman in any discipline of theatre who is showing creative promise and deserves recognition and encouragement.
TAYLOR REYNOLDS is a New York-based director from Chicago and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of OBIE- winning The Movement Theatre Company. She has worked as a director and collaborator with companies including Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Baltimore Center Stage, Signature Theatre Company, MCC, Ars Nova, and The 24 Hour Plays. Selected directing credits: Tambo & Bones by Dave Harris (upcoming, Playwrights Horizons/CTG); Vote! (the black album) by Regina Taylor (Theatre for One: Here We Are); Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz (Baltimore Center Stage/Playwrights Realm); Plano by Will Arbery (Drama Desk nom for Best Director, Clubbed Thumb); Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution); Allond(r)a by Gina Femia (New Georges Audrey Residency); Think Before You Holla (creator/deviser, Ally Theatre Company). She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab alum, and member of SDC. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University.
Presented By: GINA FEMIA is a Brooklyn born and based playwright whose work has been seen/developed at MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Page 73, CTG, Theater of NOTE, among others. Selected honors include the Kilroys’ List, Leah Ryan Prize, Doric Wilson Award, and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award. Gina is a Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, an alum of EST Youngblood, Page73's Interstate 73, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, New Georges's Audrey Residency, and Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Plays Lab. Gina’s a New Georges Affiliated Artist and has received residencies with Page73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Fresh Ground Pepper. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College (Lipkin Prize in Playwriting).
The LPTW Lucille Lortel Visionary Award To honor the memory of producer and League member Lucille Lortel--and as a companion award to the Lucille Lortel Grant given annually to an aspiring woman showing creative promise--in 2008, 2013, 2017, 2019, and now in 2021, an additional grant was awarded as the LPTW Lucille Lortel Visionary Award.
MEGHAN FINN is the Artistic Director of The Tank. Her directorial work has been seen at The Tank, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries, The Wexner Center, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts, Museo Jumex Mexico City, The Power Plant, Canadian Stage, Carnegie Mellon, Brooklyn College, MIT, NYU, 3LD, and others. Directing credits include three premieres by Mac Wellman: The Invention of Tragedy (2019), The Offending Gesture (2016) and 3,2’s; OR AFAR (2011); I Am Nobody, a new musical by Greg Kotis; The Nine Dreams: Blake & the Apocalypse by Nick Flynn (film); 16 Words or Less by Peggy Stafford (film); DOOMOCRACY (2016) and Manufacturing Mischief (2017) by Pedro Reyes; American Power by Mitch Epstein and Erik Friedlander; and celebrated premieres by Caitlyn Saylor Stephens, Julia May Jonas, Erin Courtney, Gary Winter, Peggy Stafford, Ben Gassman, Alexandra Collier, Carl Holder, Eliza Bent, and Cori Copp. She holds her BA in Theatre from USC, MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College.
Presented By: SUSAN BERNFIELD is the Founder and Artistic Director/Producer of New Georges. Since 1992, through development programs and 48 premieres—including first productions for women+ artists now visible in every corner of our culture—she’s cultivated an influential, exuberantly theatrical aesthetic and the largest ongoing working community of women+ theatre artists in New York City. A past LPTW Programming VP, she serves as President of A.R.T./New York; on the boards of The Assembly and the National Theatre Conference; and was a Founding Board member of the Indie Theatre Fund. Susan is also a playwright who has been produced and developed nationwide. She is the recipient of OBIE and Lilly awards.
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ESTELLE PARSONS was last seen on Broadway in The Velocity of Autumn for which she received her fifth Tony Award nomination. Although she has spent most of her professional life in the theatre, she is most widely known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Bonnie and Clyde, and her decade-long, recurring role of Beverly, mother of the title character in the hit sitcom Roseanne. In the theatre, she has appeared in plays by the great writers of our time, including Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Dario Fo, and Horton Foote. She appeared in Roberto Athayde’s classic Miss Margarida’s Way on Broadway, all over the United States, and in London, Dublin, Turkey, and Australia. She starred in August: Osage County by Tracy Letts on Broadway for a year, and on the road for a year. She played in Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire, and the Gershwin musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It with Matthew Broderick. Her latest New York City appearance was at Playwrights Horizons in Michael Friedman’s musical Unknown Soldier which was interrupted by the pandemic. She played Die Alte in Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day at the Public Theater directed by Oskar Eustis. She appeared in the second and third seasons of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. As a director, she created the New York Shakespeare Festival Players for Joseph Papp in the 1980s. For two seasons they performed Shakespeare on Broadway for New York City school students and their families in an effort to develop a multicultural audience for New York City. She also directed Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s Salome: The Reading on Broadway and on tour. Ms. Parsons presented the Actors Studio-developed The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village. Estelle Parsons is a member of the Actors Studio and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. She has received four Lifetime Achievement Awards: a Lilly, an Obie, and awards from LaMama and the Cherry Lane theatres.
Presented By: MARTHA GEHMAN is best known in theatre for Cinders at the Public, The Day Room at Manhattan Theatre Club, Baba Goya at Second Stage, the lead in Harry Kondolean’s Frieda at Circle Rep, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Public, directed by Estelle Parsons with Delroy Lindo and Natsuko Ohama. Films include: The Legend of Billie Jean, F/X , Father of the Bride, Practical Magic, The Flamingo Kid, and numerous independent films. She has directed across the country, including The Magic Theatre in San293E39FB-16A3-4A03-8A9C-F55290D78987.png Francisco, The Palace Theatre in downtownhttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/4/ Los Angeles, Stark Raving Theatre in Portland, OR, and Theater for the New City. On TV, she was in Norman Lear’s Sunday Dinner, and had many episodic roles. She is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio, and is an acting coach: marthagehman.com.
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A special Shout Out to our long-time friend and colleague, Stephanie Berry!
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CONGRATULATES
STEPHANIE BERRY
ESTELLE PARSONS
For her LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the League of Professional Theatre Women recognition of your distinguished achievements in Theatre
We celebrate you on this Seventh day of June in the year 2021 WHO WE ARE The League of Professional Theatre Women is a membership organization for professional theater women representing a diversity of identities, backgrounds, and disciplines. Through our programs and initiatives, we create community, cultivate leadership, and seek to increase opportunities and recognition for women in professional theatre.
OUR MISSION To champion, promote, and celebrate the voices, presence and visibility of women theatre professionals and to advocate for parity and recognition for women in theatre across all disciplines.
WHAT WE DO • Provide networking, programming and professional development for our members. • Spearhead vibrant public programming, initiatives and advocacy projects. • Highlight the contemporary and historic work and accomplishments of women in theatre-- both nationally and around the globe. • Advocate for change in policy and decision-making across the scope of our industry.
OUR VALUES The League of Professional Theatre Women values the individual talents, skills, and artistry of all theatre women represented in our industry. In the spirit of full inclusion of all our varied identities*, we are committed to a culture of EDIA: • Equity: To ensure fair treatment to all members and prospective members • Diversity: To honor each individual by acknowledging our differences with grace & respect. • Inclusion: To build and nurture a community that fosters a diversity of expression and actively encourages all members to contribute. • Accessibility: To provide open access to our events and programs for all members & guests. By embracing these principles, LPTW opens a pathway to greater understanding of all its members and an appreciation of how we can best serve one another. We commit to an environment of transparency for all members: providing access to information, resources and services within our professional network. We are dedicated to holding ourselves accountable to these values with continued oversight and education. We welcome you to be a part of the League of Professional Theatre Women. We need your creativity, your voice, your activism! *race, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, tribe, socio-economic status, thinking and communication styles.
CONGRATULATIONS! TO OUR ESTEEMED BELOVED SISTAH, STEPHANIE RITA BERRY.
WE ALL CONTINUE TO BE INSPIRED BY YOUR COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE, YOUR LOVE FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY AND YOUR PASSION FOR MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE THROUGH THE ARTS!
FROM MEMBERS OF: GNO, 'THE '" BOOK CLUB” AND THE HARLEM WRITERS SALON: BARBARA,NORTH, TINA FABRIQUE, VALERIE MEENA DEAS , PEGGY WILSON, , DEBORAH PERRY, , PAULA WYNTER, CASSANDRA MEDLEY, SHEILA KAY DAVIS AND RHONDA AKANKE' MCLEAN-NUR OFFICERS: Co-Presidents – Shellen Lubin & Mary E. Hodges Executive Vice President – Katrin Hilbe VP of Programming – Sherry Eaker Co-VPs of Communications – Nancy Rhodes Co-VPs of Membership – Tricia McDermott & Alisa Matlovsky Co-Secretaries – Kate McLeod & Cheryl L. Davis Treasurer – Liz Amadio
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Debora Balardini, Abigail Zealey Bess, Cate Cammarata, Laura Caparrotti, Katherine Elliot, Tess Howsam, Susan Izatt, Kim Marie Jones, Tanya Khordoc, Kat Mustatea, Wendy Peace, Cynthia Straus, Elizabeth Van Dyke, Lauren Yarger
ADVISORY COUNCIL CO-CHAIRS PAST PRESIDENTS Theresa Rebeck (also on the Advisory Council) Daryl Roth Catherine Porter 2018-2020 Kelli Lynn Harrison 2017-2019 ADVISORY COUNCIL Lisa Rothe 2016-2018 Margot Astrachan Carmel Owen 2015-2017 Andre Bishop Pamela Hunt 2014-2016 Rachel Chavkin Maxine Kern 2013-2015 Lisa D’Amour Lorca Peress 2011-2014 Jane Harmon Kristin Marting 2011-2013 Enid Nemy Rachel Reiner & Naomi Grabel 2009-2011 Lynn Nottage Lynne Rogers 2007-2009 Estelle Parsons Joan D. Firestone 2005-2007 Phylicia Rashad Sheilah Rae 2003-2005 Sarah Ruhl Harriet Slaughter 1999-2003, 2005-2007 Tim Sanford Isobel Robins 1999-2003 Elizabeth Williams Shari Upbin 1994-1999 Kathleen Gaffney 1992-1994 Amie Brockway 1992-1994 Lynda Sturner 1988-1992 Berenice Weiler 1988-1992 Billie Allen 1984-1988 Doris Cole Abrahams 1984-1988 Julia Miles 1982-1984
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LPTW Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award Program The Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award Program was established in 2011 in honor of Rosamond Gilder and Martha Coigney, two legendary practitioners and diplomats whose work on the international stage proved that theatre knows no boundaries. Presented every three years, this award acknowledges the exceptional work of a non-U.S. theatre woman, promotes expanded visibility and new opportunities for the Awardee and her sister nominees, and fosters connections and networking with LPTW members and local cultural institutions. Odile Gakire Katese (2011, Rwanda), Patricia Ariza (2014, Colombia), and Adelheid Roosen (2017, The Netherlands) were our first three winners. Hanane Hajj Ali from Lebanon was our 2020 awardee, honored in February 2021. The GCITA Program is more than an award ceremony. It is a week- long series of events designed to facilitate the Program’s goals, on LPTW’s YouTube Channel.
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LPTW Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award Program The Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award Program was established in 2011 in honor of Rosamond Gilder and Martha Coigney, two legendary practitioners and diplomats whose work on the international stage proved that theatre knows no boundaries. Presented every three years, this award acknowledges the exceptional work of a non-U.S. theatre woman, promotes expanded visibility and new opportunities for the Awardee and her sister nominees, and fosters connections and networking with LPTW members and local cultural institutions. Odile Gakire Katese (2011, Rwanda), Patricia Ariza (2014, Colombia), and Adelheid Roosen (2017, The Netherlands) were our first three winners. Hanane Hajj Ali from Lebanon was our 2020 awardee, honored in February 2021. The GCITA Program is more than an award ceremony. It is a week- long series of events designed to facilitate the Program’s goals, on LPTW’s YouTube Channel.
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