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The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short) is a New York City–based non-profit organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre", according to its mission statement. Originally known as the Stage Women's War Relief during World War I , it later became a part of the World War II Allied Relief Fund under its current ...
Lutvak was a 2005 recipient of the American Theatre Wing's Jonathan Larson Grant. [12] Lutvak was associated with the Sundance Theatre Institute, won a Johnny Mercer Foundation Emerging American Songwriter Award, two Bistro Awards, and three MAC Awards, and was a multi-time recipient of an ASCAP Award. [13]
In 2010, Company One was awarded the American Theater Wing's National Theatre Company Grant. [5] In 2016 the company received grants which allowed it to take on a playwright in residence; the first playwright brought in was Kirsten Greenidge. [6] [7] Later that year the company presented "The T Party", a play about gender transformation. [8]
Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation give awards to new songwriters and book writers. The foundation was created by American Theatre Wing Board Member, Sondra Gilman, and Texas Art Commissioner, Celso Gonzalez-Falla. The Musical Theatre Award is accompanied by a grant of $25,000.
The Jonathan Larson Grants are now administered by the American Theatre Wing, thanks to an endowment funded by the Foundation and the Larson Family. [28] His semi-autobiographical musical Tick, Tick... Boom! premiered Off-Broadway in May 2001, toured the United States in 2003, and premiered in London in May 2005.
From 1997 to 2008, the foundation awarded grants to musical theatre composers, lyricists and book writers. Following the 2008 grants, the program was shifted to the American Theatre Wing, where it continues as the Jonathan Larson Grants. [1]
The Tony Awards, administered by the American Theater Wing, were first handed out in 1947 and first telecast in 1967. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.
The American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, named Triad Stage "one of the top ten most promising theatres in the country" as the recipient of a 2010 National Theatre Company Grant. [5] Triad Stage has been further honored with the award of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts [6] and The Shubert Foundation. [citation needed]