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SUMMARY:LPTW Awards Celebration & Big Mingle
DESCRIPTION:THE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN\nAWARDS CELEBRATION & BIG MINGLE\nMonday March 10\n6.30 to 10pm\n\nat The Irene Diamond Stage\nThe Pershing Square Signature Center\n480 West 42nd Street\nPress Coverage From The Event:\n\n\thttp://blogcritics.org/tamara-tunie-audra-mcdonald-zoe-caldwell-and-tyne-daly-at-league-of-professional-theatre-women-awards/\n\thttp://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Coverage-Tyne-Daly-More-Celebrate-Women-at-the-LPTW-Awards-20140311#.UyKpNl7GQiA\n\n[gallery type="rectangular" ids="2440\,2441\,2442\,2443\,2444\,2445\,2446\,2447\,2448\,2449"]\nThe League's new event puts awards center stage!\nLife Time Achievement Award:  Zoe Caldwell\, Actor\nAudra McDonald will present the award to Zoe Caldwell\n\nRuth Morley Design Award:  Judith Dolan\, Costume Designer\nThe Ruth Morley Design Award is given annually to an outstanding female theatre designer in the field of costumes\, scenery\, lighting\, or special effects in memory of the theatre and film costume designer\, and League member\, Ruth Morley.\nPresented by Gregory Boyd.\n\nThe Lee Reynolds Award:  Joanna Sherman\, Artistic Director\, Bond Street Theatre\nThe award\, in memory of producer and League member Lee Reynolds\, is given annually to a woman or women active in any aspect of theatre\, whose work through the medium of theatre has helped to illuminate the possibilities for social\, cultural or political change.\nPresented by Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider\n\nSpecial award to League member Sondra Gorney\nA one-time award honoring actor\, author and League member Sondra Gorney for her dedication to the values and the mission of the League of Professional Theatre Women.\nPresented by Mary Miko\n\nAbady Award:  Meiyin Wang\, Director of the Devised Theater initiative and Co-Director of the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater\nThe Abady Award is given in memory of Josephine R. Abady\, a stage and artistic director and leader of the nonprofit theatre movement in the United States. The award is given annually to a woman who is an emerging theatrical artist and has created work of cultural diversity.\nPresented by Susan Feldman\n\nLucille Lortel Award: Katherine Kovner\, Artistic Director\, The Playwrights Realm\nThe League of Professional Theatre Women’s Lucille Lortel Award was founded in 2000 with a bequest from Lucille Lortel. The award and accompanying grant is given annually to “an aspiring woman in any discipline of theatre who is showing great creative promise and deserves recognition and encouragement.”\nPresented by Leigh Silverman\n\n\n\nTAMARA TUNIE WILL HOST THIS EXCITING EVENT!\n\nGet tickets now:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/567322\n\nIf you'd like to pay by check\, instead of online\, please do!  Make it out to the League of Professional Theatre Women & send it to LPTW\, c/o TCG\, 520 8th Avenue\, 24th Floor\, NYC  10018.\n\n[gallery type="rectangular" ids="2395\,2348\,2345\,2343\,2340"]\n\nAwards Celebration & Big Mingle Write-Up\nBy Jenny Lyn Bader\n\nThe League of Professional Theatre Women held our annual awards celebration combined for the first time with the “Big Mingle\,” a pre- and post-awards reception\, on March 10\, 2014 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.\n\nAfter a brief cocktail and prior to the main “mingle\,” we held our awards ceremony on the Irene Diamond Stage.\n\nKatherine Kovner received the Lucille Lortel Award\, given annually to “an aspiring woman in any discipline of theatre who is showing great creative promise and deserves recognition and encouragement.”\n\nThe award was presented by Leigh Silverman\, a director who frequently counsels young women directors to “be proactive — you have to make your own opportunities.” She then introduced someone she said had truly built her own opportunities: Ms. Kovner\, founder and Artistic Director of the Playwrights Realm.\n\nAs she spends much of her time nurturing emerging writers\, Katherine Kovner said she was “more used to giving out encouragements and awards than receiving them.”\n\nMeiyin Wang received the Abady Award\, given in memory of Josephine R. Abady\, a stage and artistic director and a leader of the nonprofit theatre movement. Ms. Wang works at the Public Theater both as Director of the Devised Theatre Initiative and Co-Director of the Public’s Under the Radar Festival.\n\nSusan Feldman\, Founding Artistic Director of St. Anne’s Warehouse\, presented the award\, saying it was intended for either an emerging director or a producer or a creative director of a work of cultural diversity who’s worked in the professional theatre for five years — and “the nice thing about Meiyin is that she’s all three.”\n\nAccepting the award\, Ms. Wang\, who is originally from Singapore\, remarked: “I guess I’m here as an artist\, as a producer\, and as a woman of color. And what is clear to me… is that I was none of these things before I came to America ten years ago.”\n\nWe then presented a Special Award to actor\, author and League member Sondra Gorney for her dedication to the values and the mission of the League of Professional Theatre Women.\n\nFellow League member Mary Miko introduced Sondra\, saying “there are many in this room who admire you and who have made you their role model.” She spoke of Sondra’s remarkable career\, which began when she was a child actress —Sondra is now in her 90’s — and also of her passion for League-related events\, international trips\, and community.\n\nMs. Gorney told the audience: “I intend to continue as a proud league member and help promote visibility and increase opportunities for women in professional theatre”\n\nNext we gave costume designer Judith Dolan the Ruth Morley Design Award\, which honors the memory of Ms. Morley\, the theatre and film costume designer and League member. Gregory Boyd\, Artistic Director of the Alley Theatre\, presented the award\, speaking of the remarkable depth and detail with which Ms. Dolan approaches costume design. He also read a letter from Harold Prince describing the joys of working with Ms. Dolan. Ms. Dolan\, accepting the award\, said she was “truly humbled by it.”\n\nJoanna Sherman\, Artistic Director of the Bond Street Theatre\, received the Lee Reynolds Award\, given annually to a woman whose work through the medium of theatre has helped to illuminate the possibilities for social\, cultural\, or political change.\n\nAmbassador Cynthia P. Schneider introduced the award\, saying “culture is a very undervalued yet extremely powerful component of diplomacy and international relations” and telling the audience that “many more women are now voting thanks to Joanna.” Ms. Sherman then spoke about some of her experiences putting on plays in Afghanistan\, where men and women act in separate companies and the women’s troupe generally can only be watched by women audiences\, often in homes. Some of their theatrical work has caused some Afghani audiences to reconsider their views on selling young girls into marriage.\n\n“You can’t tell people what to think\, but you can tell people to think\, and you can empower them to do it\,” said Ms. Sherman.\n\nShe was once at a refugee camp in Kosovo where she met a doctor from Doctors without Borders who said to her “We’re providing the means for human survival — food\, medicine\, shelter — but you are providing food for the soul. You are restoring their humanity.”\n\nFinally Zoe Caldwell received the League’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Audra McDonald presented the award\, speaking with great affection about working with Ms. Caldwell and telling the audience she had even named her daughter after her. She read a letter about the awardee from Hal Prince too. And Zoe Caldwell herself then came to the podium. She began her remarks drolly: “I think it is fair to say that I am a woman.” She went on:\n\n“I also think that it is fair to say that I am a professional in the theatre. So what better organization to be honored by? …Than the League of Professional Theatre Women.”\n\nWhen she found out about the award\, Ms. Caldwell said\,  “I didn’t know the true definition of the word “League” oh it seemed so forceful! A ‘League’! Sounds pretty masculine to me… So I looked it up. And I was quite moved by what I found.”\n\nShe then read us the dictionary definition of League:\n\n“An association of individuals having a common goal with an agreement for mutual help.”\n\nAfter a dramatic pause she added\, “That sounds like theatre to me. And women. So thank you.”\n\nThe awards ceremony was so inspirational that LPTW member Tamara Tunie\, the evening’s host\, departed from her scheduled remarks to say how inspirational it was:\n\n“I just pray that this is videotaped or recorded in some way shape or form\, because I don’t know about you but I have been inspired and moved and charged by every single person’s speech this evening\, the presenters\, and the awardees!”\n\nThe crowd agreed.
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