NEW YORK: THE Dramatists Guild of America announced today that David Henry Hwang is the recipient of his life prize in 2025. The prize, awarded by the dramatist Guild Council in recognition of the distinguished realization for life in theatrical writing, will be presented during the annual guild award ceremony on Monday, April 28.
David Henry Hwang was recently represented on Broadway with the renewal acclaimed by the criticism of Yellow face With Daniel Dae Kim. He is a winner of a Tony, Grammy and Triple Obie Prize, as well as a triple finalist in the Prix du drama Pulitzer. His stage works include the pieces Mr. Papillon,, Yellow face,, CHINGISH, golden child,, Dance and railroadAnd Pocketas well as musicals Aida,, Flower drum song, Tarzan of Disney, And Soft Power. Hwang is currently working on the new musical Particle feverBased on the 2013 documentary on the greatest scientific experience never undertaken. Recent honors include his enthronement in 2022 on the sidewalk of the playwrights of Lucille Lortel, his seventh honorary doctorate of California State University in 2022, his election in 2021 at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and its 2018 enthronement at the temple of the theater. Hwang has been a member of the Guild dramatist since 1979 and also sits on the Guild Council. He is a director of the American Theater Wing, which he chaired in 2016-2021.
CHICAGO: On March 25, the 51st non-deceased annual this year Jeff Awards The ceremony celebrated the non -unionized theater season of Chicago 2024 at the Harris Theater. Thirty-three winners were honored among 138 nominated in 25 artistic and technical categories. The prizes were returned live in an evening co-organized by the artists of Chicago Frankie Leo Bennett and Nk Guérrez, with a direction of Adrian Abel Azevedo, a musical direction of Dr Michael McBride, and many nominated productions and dozens of local theater artists as presenters.
Kokandy Productions received the most price, with five to In the woodsIncluding honors for production – musical comedy, ensemble, direction, musical director for a musical / review and an artistic specialization for orchestrations. Open space arts won four prizes for its short -term productions, especially Roosterwho was honored for short -term production and a short -term support artist, and Lighting switchwho was honored for the short -term director and the short -term principal interpreter.
Other companies with several victories included City Lit Theater Companywith The Seven August guitars Wilson Honored for production – play and interpret in a support role and Murder in the cathedral honored for costume design, and Refracted theater companywho received three prizes for Coronation: Performer in a role of support, lighting and projection design. The awards for new work included Brynne Frauenhoffer Pro-am has First floor And Erik Gernand All of all things has Redtwist theater.
This year's prices have launched the new Jeff Impresario Non-Equity Prize, which honors excellence in stage management based on nominations by theater companies. It will now be awarded each year during the Prix de non-de-de-clean Jeff. Kyle Aschbrenner received the inaugural prize for its stage management work in Virgin theater. In addition, the DEPAUL University Theater School received the 2025 special prize for its legacy of 100 years of training for exceptional artists and its deep influence on the theatrical community of Chicago and beyond.
The complete list of the winners of the Jeff price not of equity can be found here.
LOS ANGELES: IAMA theater company A selected Alicia Carroll as a recipient in 2025 The Rhimes Unsung Voices Rhimes writing commissionSponsored by Iama Patron of the Shonda Rhimes Arts (Grey's Anatomy,, Scandal,, Bridgerton) and the Rhimes Foundation. Now in its eighth year, this commission has been created to feed emerging playwrights, emphasizing cultural inclusion and new creativity in the theater. He supports a writer from an under-represented community that was produced in a minimum way, but did not have commercial production, outside Broadway or Broadway of their work.
Alicia Carroll is a playwright and a television writer from Philadelphia and the DC, Maryland and Virginia region (DMV). His writing credits include Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin (Peacock), The watchful eye (Freeform), Zoey's extraordinary reading list (NBC), and the comic show of Croked Media and the Podcast Livett or leave it. She participated in several scholarships and laboratories on mediums as a writer, in particular The independent film project involves the scholarship,, Women in cinema: Insight Fellowship,, Iama Theater Company's emerging playwright,, Together Studio Theater La's Ignite Lab,, The winter of the Intensive Workshop TheaterAnd The greenhouse laboratory of the Orchard project. When she does not write, Carroll teaches online television writing at Story Brain Academy, writing workshops, writing pad and Sundance Collab. She also works with Develop the barrelBring the classics by under-represented playwrights in the foreground.
LOS ANGELES: artequity Announced defender of arts and cultural worker Tomás J. Benitez as one of the recipients of the 2025 Bipoc Alders + Bearers Grant cultureIn a group which also includes cultural activist Toni McClendon, a founding member of the board of directors of the Gay Assembly of San Antonio, Graciela Sanchez, and the journalist from Alaska (Iñupiaq) John Tetpo. In this eighth cycle of artequity financing Artist + Activist Community FundThe subsidy offers $ 5,000 each in funds without restriction to the former visionary bipoc and culture bearers who offered their community a legacy of art and activism. It was created to honor the wisdom and artistic contributions of the ancient artists who have worked towards healing and the transformative power of the arts for generations.
Tomás J. Benitez has been a defender of the arts and a cultural worker for 50 years. Benitez is the former executive director of Graphics and autonomous artsAnd remains a consultant for several non -profit artistic organizations. He was a member of The theater of Hope and founded his own company, Teatro Café, and the Theater for Social Justice Initiative Carré Raza.
“Toni” laws McClendon is a community elder and a cultural activist, a storyteller of the African-American oral tradition and a longtime militant of peace and social justice. By obtaining its activists' genes from its paternal and maternal heart lines, Toni firmly believes in rights and dignity for all.
Graciela I. Sánchez is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Gay Lesbian Assembly of San Antonio, San Antonio Lesbien / Gay Media Project, and Ellas, a Latina and local Latina organization. In 1987, Graciela joined other women to found Esperanza Peace and Justice Centerthat she still directs.
John Tetpon is a long -standing journalist for Alaska (Iñupiaq) who lives in Anchorage. He won a Pulitzer prize as a journalist for the series “A People in Peril” published in 1988. In Iñupiaq traditional arts, he is a Morse Morse master, whale bones and wooden carpet. He learned to sculpt his father and, in turn, taught his son.
