Emerging Professional Award
Selected by the Outstanding Theatre Award recipient, this $1,000 Award is presented to a person(s) demonstrating exemplary promise in a professional theatre organization.
2022 Jesús I. Valles
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Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, writer-performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Jesús is a 2021 CantoMundo fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, a 2021 Lambda Literary fellow, a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a recipient of the 2019 Letras Latinas Scholarship from the Community of Writers’ Poetry Workshop, and a 2019 poetry fellow at Idyllwild Arts Writers Week. Jesús is also a 2018 Undocupoets Fellow, a 2018 Tin House Scholar, a fellow of The 2018 Poetry Incubator, and the runner-up in the 2017 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Their work has been published in Shade Literary, The Texas Review, The New Republic, Palabritas, The Acentos Review, Quarterly West, The Mississippi Review, Palette, The Adroit Journal, BOAAT, The McNeese Review, and PANK. Their poetry has also been featured on NPR’s Code Switch, The Slowdown, The BreakBeat Poets' LatiNext Anthology, the Best New Poets 2020 anthology, and the anthology, Somewhere We Are Human. As an actor, they are the recipient of four B. Iden Payne Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama (2018), and Outstanding Original Script (2018) and they were nominated for the Mark David Cohen New Play Award for their play, (Un)Documents. Their playwriting work has received awards and support from OUTSider festival, Teatro Vivo, The VORTEX, The Kennedy Center, New York Theatre Workshop, and The Flea. Jesús is currently an MFA playwriting student at Brown University.
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2021 Anna Robinson
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Anna Robinson is a Scenic and Media/Projection Designer from New Zealand who, after completing her MFA in Set Design from the University of California, San Diego, has designed the sets and projection, video and graphic Design installations for many innovative, highly acclaimed, world premiere and box-office successful stage productions across the United States. With her background in film and graphic design and as a professional hip hop dancer in her spare time, Anna blends all these worlds to create malleable, unique and exciting spaces for the stage. Her sets have a striking graphic quality as they become playgrounds for the performers to live and breathe within.
Regional Theatre Design Credits; Animate, Autonomy and Roe (Mixed Blood Theatre - Scenic and Projection Design), Assassins and Mamma Mia (East West Players), The Year To Come (La Jolla Playhouse - Video Design), Julius Caesar (The Old Globe), Stockholm (Triptych Theatre), Pippin (UCLA Musical Theatre Institute), Death and Cockroaches (Chalk Repertory Theatre - Projection Design), Funfair, The Drunken City, Dear Harvey (California Repertory Theatre at CSULB). Assistant Scenic Design Credits: Mysterious Circumstances (The Geffen), Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Pre-Broadway Tour), SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical (La Jolla Playhouse, Lunt Fontanne Theatre Broadway). UC San Diego Credits: A Raisin in the Sun (Mandell Weiss Theatre), Vieux Carré (Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre), Strange Men (World Premiere - Shank Theatre), (W)holeness (World Premiere - Shank Theatre), Angels in America: Perestroika, Boston Marriage. |
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2020 Reginald L. DouglasReginald L. Douglas is a director, producer, and advocate dedicated to creating new work and supporting new voices, and the Associate Artistic Director at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. His passion and acumen for both new play development and re-investigating the classics have led him to theaters across the country, including directing work at Eugene O’Neill Center, TheaterWorks Hartford, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Everyman Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Theatre Squared, Playwrights Center, Profile Theater, NNPN/Kennedy Center, NNPN Showcase at B Street Theatre, McCarter, Florida Rep, Luna Stage, Harlem Stage, Wild Project, Signature Center, Drama League, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, where he was an inaugural 2050 Directing Fellow, and City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, where he served as the Artistic Producer from 2015-2020.
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Reginald has developed and directed plays and musicals by many acclaimed writers including Dominique Morisseau, Cori Thomas, Angelica Chéri, Nikkole Salter, Kemp Powers, Jen Silverman, Ngozi Anyanwu, Matt Schatz, Amy Evans, Zakiyyah Alexander & Imani Uzuri, Brian Quijada, Dave Harris, Chisa Hutchinson, Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Josh Wilder, Harrison David Rivers, Korde Arrington Tuttle, a.k. payne, Craig “muMs” Grant, Jessica Dickey, Laura Brienza, Kevin R. Free, Micah Ariel Watson, and several others. Reginald currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the National New Play Network; regularly serves on the selection committees for local and national fellowships and grants; has spoken at several national conferences and festivals; and is a guest lecturer at the O’Neill’s National Theatre Institute. Reginald is a proud graduate of Georgetown University and member of SDC.
Upcoming: An audio version of Mlima's Tale by Lynn Nottage (Profile Theatre); developmental workshops of Somewhere Over the Border by Brian Quijada (Arizona Theatre Company) and ALAIYO by Micah Areil Watson (NNPN/Kennedy Center); the short film Rita by Josh Wilder (Weston Playhouse One Room series); and an episode of the new media series The Gaze...No Homo by Larry Powell.
Reginald has developed and directed plays and musicals by many acclaimed writers including Dominique Morisseau, Cori Thomas, Angelica Chéri, Nikkole Salter, Kemp Powers, Jen Silverman, Ngozi Anyanwu, Matt Schatz, Amy Evans, Zakiyyah Alexander & Imani Uzuri, Brian Quijada, Dave Harris, Chisa Hutchinson, Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Josh Wilder, Harrison David Rivers, Korde Arrington Tuttle, a.k. payne, Craig “muMs” Grant, Jessica Dickey, Laura Brienza, Kevin R. Free, Micah Ariel Watson, and several others. Reginald currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the National New Play Network; regularly serves on the selection committees for local and national fellowships and grants; has spoken at several national conferences and festivals; and is a guest lecturer at the O’Neill’s National Theatre Institute. Reginald is a proud graduate of Georgetown University and member of SDC.
Upcoming: An audio version of Mlima's Tale by Lynn Nottage (Profile Theatre); developmental workshops of Somewhere Over the Border by Brian Quijada (Arizona Theatre Company) and ALAIYO by Micah Areil Watson (NNPN/Kennedy Center); the short film Rita by Josh Wilder (Weston Playhouse One Room series); and an episode of the new media series The Gaze...No Homo by Larry Powell.
2019 Deadria Harrington
Deadria Harrington is a New York City based creative producer, artist and member of the Producing Artistic Leadership Team of The Movement Theatre Company. With The Movement, she has developed numerous new works by emerging artists of color, most recently What To Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris, directed by Whitney White and And She Would Stand Like This by Harrison David Rivers, directed by David Mendizábal and choreography by Kia LaBeija. Select producing credits: The Architecture of Becoming (WP Theater), At Buffalo (NYMF, UB Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative, CAP21, TED 2019 Conference participant), Alligator (New Georges). Harrington was a Time Warner Foundation Fellow of the 2012-2014 Producers Lab at Women’s Project Theater, a Next Generation Leader of Color at the 2014 Latinx Theatre Commons National Convening, and has participated in artEquity’s National Facilitator Training. She has worked on as a consultant with SITI Company and artEquity and is the Associate Director at New Georges. BA in Drama and Psychology, Vassar College.
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2018 Raquel NobileRaquel Nobile is currently playing the role of Shprintze in the NYTF production of Fiddler on the Roof directed by Joel Grey. She is happy to return to the NYTF after performing, most recently, in the Yiddish Vaudeville concert series. She made her off broadway debut in Amerike- The Golden Land last summer and was featured in Bucharest, Romania during the Annual Tes Fest. She sings regularly as a featured soloist at the Harvard Club NYC, and holds a masters in classical voice from the Manhattan School of Music.
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2017 Kelly Curran
Kelley Curran graduated Fordham University with a Princess Grace Award Nomination in 2006. She began her professional career with The Acting Company, completing three national tours by 2009. She appeared Off Broadway as Elinor Dashwood in Bedlam’s Sense & Sensibility, and received a Drama League Award Nomination for playing four characters in The Pearl’s The Ding-Dong. Kelley also received the 2016 Callaway Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Classic Play (Hippolita in RedBull’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore). Other Off-Broadway credits include Angels in America (Signature) and work with LAByrinth, 59E59, the Drama League, and the Public Theater. Regional: Portland Center Stage, the Guthrie, Shakespeare & Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre of D.C. (DC Metro Arts Best Actress acknowledgement for Lady Percy opposite Stacey Keach’s Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts 1&2). In 2017, she made her Broadway debut opposite Kevin Kline in Present Laughter; completed work on her first feature film, The Man Who Killed Hitler; followed by The Bigfoot (executive producer John Sayles). She is currently appearing in Bedlam’s Peter Pan at the Duke through Dec. 23.
2016 Rebecca Remaly
Rebecca Remaly is Managing Director of Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC), which she co-founded in 2006. Entering its 11th season, BETC has grown from scratch to a robust, award-winning, professional theatre with an operating budget exceeding $500K. In 2015, Rebecca accepted BETC’s National Theatre Company Award from the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards. Directing credits with BETC include Cyrano, Outside Mullingar, The Aliens, Annapurna(2014 True West Award, Best Production), Mauritius, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf (2011 Daily Camera Eye Award, Best Comedy), The Clean House, Copenhagen, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, and the world premiere of Morisot Reclining (Henry Award Nomination, Best New Play 2009). Sometimes an actor, Rebecca appeared in the BETC productionsStupid F##king Bird (Mash), Doubt (Sister James), Stop Kiss (Sara),The Glass Menagerie (Laura) and Antigone (Ismene). Prior to moving to Colorado, Rebecca worked at several East Coast theatre companies, including Manhattan Theatre Club, George Street Playhouse, and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.
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2015: Isabel Nelson, Diogo Lopes
2014: Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins 2013: Ed Sylvanus Iskandar 2012: Eric Lockley 2011: Terah Herman 2010: No Award 2009: No Award 2008: Kinan Valdez 2007: Jeff Carey 2006: Andi Stover 2005: Keight Gleason, Tyler Olsen |
2004: Xosha Roquemore
2003: Sarah K. Bartlo 2002: Ryan McKittrick 2001: Jay Paul Skelton 2000: Andrew D. Madsen 1999: Terrance Winston 1998: Mary Grace Landiver 1997: Brendon Fox 1996: Ian Barford |