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Philip Gotanda Among Legacy Playwrights Initiative’s Inaugural Winners
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NEW YORK The Legacy Playwrights Initiative has announced the recipients of the inaugural Legacy Playwrights Initiative Awards, which aims to honor and advocate for elder playwrights who have fallen out of the public eye. The winners are Ed Bullins, Constance Congdon, and Philip Kan Gotanda.
The playwrights were recognized at the Dramatists Guild Foundation “Write in the Dark” virtual benefit on Dec. 21, featuring special guests Lou Bellamy, Oskar Eustis, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Phylicia Rashad, and Paula Vogel.
Philip Kan Gotanda
The Legacy Playwrights Initiative was founded by Anne Cattaneo (Lincoln Center Theater), Benita Hofstetter Koman (formerly of the Roy Cockrum Foundation), Todd London (Dramatists Guild), and Rachel Routh (Dramatists Guild Foundation), with fiscal sponsorship from the Dramatists Guild Foundation and in partnership with the Dramatists Guild of America.
On its 50th anniversary, Rites and Reason Theatre says goodbye to its ‘beating heart’
A virtual fete on Tuesday, Dec. 15, will pay tribute to Karen Allen Baxter, who has served as senior managing director of Brown’s Rites and Reason Theatre since 1988.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] In 1988, after an early career spent working with a veritable “Who’s Who” list of Black artists in New York, Karen Allen Baxter took her unparalleled theater knowledge and expansive Rolodex to Brown University where, for 32 years, she has served as senior managing director of Rites and Reason Theatre within the Department of Africana Studies.