Nominations Open for Honor Roll! HONORS
Honor Roll! HONORS is now accepting nominations for the Third Annual Marjorie Bicknell Honor Roll! HONORS.
Honor Roll! Honors recognizes those theater professionals who work to ensure that the plays of women+ playwrights over 40 have a full and significant life on the American stage and are represented fairly in the canon of theatrical works.
Honor Roll! will award Honors in five categories in 2024 for work accomplished between January 1, and December 31, 2023. This year's categories are:
Outstanding Producer: Recognizing a producer or artistic director who makes a special effort to include the work of women+ playwrights age 40 or older in their theater's season, or who has produced a second stage season of plays or readings by them.
Inclusionary Festival: Recognizing a conference, festival, or special event that features the work of women+ playwrights age 40 and older, or who makes a special effort to include their work in a festival or series of plays and readings.
Outstanding Publisher: Recognizing a publisher who produces anthologies of work by women+ playwrights age 40+, a magazine that features the work of these playwrights or regularly includes articles about the work that women+ playwrights in this age cohort are doing.
Individual Achievement: Recognizing an individual who does outstanding work in helping women+ playwrights age 40+ to get their work produced, published, or honored in a special way.
Legacy Award: Recognizing an individual or organization that has consistently advocated for women+ playwrights, especially those age 40 and older, over a period of five years or longer.
This is the third annual Honor Roll! HONORS, a program initially initiated and run by Marjorie Bicknell, an Honor Roll Member and also a Dramatist Guild Regional Representative. Following her untimely death in October 2023, the program was named for her.
“Marjorie Bicknell was wildly passionate about Honor Roll HONORS, and was completely devoted to it. Now, the program will continue with her name added in her memory,” said Olga Humphrey, member of the Honor Roll Executive Committee.
Honor Roll Member Ann Timmons now guiding the program.
The deadline for nominations is July 15 2024. Honor Roll members and any theater professional may nominate another individual or group of individuals for Honor Roll! Honors by accessing a form at bit.ly/4bI1ho6. Or email your nomination with the requested information to [email protected]. Winners will be announced in August 2024.
To nominate you must provide the following:
· Name and contact information of the Nominee
· Name and contact information of the Nominator
· 150 to 200 words on Nominee's efforts and what makes them worthy of the award. Please include links to their work or information about them and their work.
· Published evidence of the effort, such as playbills, press releases, news articles, etc.
HONOR ROLL! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over forty - and our women+ over 40 allies - whose goal is our inclusion in theater. We are the generation excluded at the outset of our careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. We celebrate diversity in theater and work to eliminate age discrimination as it intersects with sexism and other biases including those based on race, gender identity, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theater and beyond.
For questions or inquiries about Honor Roll HONORS, write to: [email protected]
Honor Roll! HONORS is now accepting nominations for the Third Annual Marjorie Bicknell Honor Roll! HONORS.
Honor Roll! Honors recognizes those theater professionals who work to ensure that the plays of women+ playwrights over 40 have a full and significant life on the American stage and are represented fairly in the canon of theatrical works.
Honor Roll! will award Honors in five categories in 2024 for work accomplished between January 1, and December 31, 2023. This year's categories are:
Outstanding Producer: Recognizing a producer or artistic director who makes a special effort to include the work of women+ playwrights age 40 or older in their theater's season, or who has produced a second stage season of plays or readings by them.
Inclusionary Festival: Recognizing a conference, festival, or special event that features the work of women+ playwrights age 40 and older, or who makes a special effort to include their work in a festival or series of plays and readings.
Outstanding Publisher: Recognizing a publisher who produces anthologies of work by women+ playwrights age 40+, a magazine that features the work of these playwrights or regularly includes articles about the work that women+ playwrights in this age cohort are doing.
Individual Achievement: Recognizing an individual who does outstanding work in helping women+ playwrights age 40+ to get their work produced, published, or honored in a special way.
Legacy Award: Recognizing an individual or organization that has consistently advocated for women+ playwrights, especially those age 40 and older, over a period of five years or longer.
This is the third annual Honor Roll! HONORS, a program initially initiated and run by Marjorie Bicknell, an Honor Roll Member and also a Dramatist Guild Regional Representative. Following her untimely death in October 2023, the program was named for her.
“Marjorie Bicknell was wildly passionate about Honor Roll HONORS, and was completely devoted to it. Now, the program will continue with her name added in her memory,” said Olga Humphrey, member of the Honor Roll Executive Committee.
Honor Roll Member Ann Timmons now guiding the program.
The deadline for nominations is July 15 2024. Honor Roll members and any theater professional may nominate another individual or group of individuals for Honor Roll! Honors by accessing a form at bit.ly/4bI1ho6. Or email your nomination with the requested information to [email protected]. Winners will be announced in August 2024.
To nominate you must provide the following:
· Name and contact information of the Nominee
· Name and contact information of the Nominator
· 150 to 200 words on Nominee's efforts and what makes them worthy of the award. Please include links to their work or information about them and their work.
· Published evidence of the effort, such as playbills, press releases, news articles, etc.
HONOR ROLL! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over forty - and our women+ over 40 allies - whose goal is our inclusion in theater. We are the generation excluded at the outset of our careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. We celebrate diversity in theater and work to eliminate age discrimination as it intersects with sexism and other biases including those based on race, gender identity, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theater and beyond.
For questions or inquiries about Honor Roll HONORS, write to: [email protected]
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Recipients of the Honor Roll HONORS winners last year were:
Individual Achievement Award, Plan-B Theatre, Jerry Rapier and Cheryl Ann Cluff
Outstanding Producer, Thomas Coté, The Workshop Theatre
Outstanding Publisher, Debbie Lamedman, Smith & Kraus
Inclusionary Festival, The Writers Lab, Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon
Legacy Award, Julia Jordan, Lilly’s co-creator.
Read more: American Theatre Magazine
Recipients of the Honor Roll HONORS winners last year were:
Individual Achievement Award, Plan-B Theatre, Jerry Rapier and Cheryl Ann Cluff
Outstanding Producer, Thomas Coté, The Workshop Theatre
Outstanding Publisher, Debbie Lamedman, Smith & Kraus
Inclusionary Festival, The Writers Lab, Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon
Legacy Award, Julia Jordan, Lilly’s co-creator.
Read more: American Theatre Magazine