Huge New Award for Playwriting Soon to Be Announced

I received a Media Advisory today, and this is major, major news. This event is invitation only, but all playwrights should have this on their radars going forward.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRST RECIPIENT OF
THE STEINBERG DISTINGUISHED PLAYWRIGHT AWARD
A MAJOR NEW AMERICAN THEATER AWARD
LARGEST THEATER AWARD OF ITS KIND

Who:
Participants include David Rockwell, Oskar Eustis, William Zabel, André Bishop, Polly Carl, Martha Lavey, Eduardo Machado, Marc Masterson, Carole A. Krumland, James D. Steinberg, Michael A. Steinberg and Dr. Seth Weingarten

What:
The announcement of the first recipient of The Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award (‘The Mimi’), and the unveiling of the trophy design by Tony Award-nominated scenic designer David Rockwell.

When/Where:
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
The offices of Schulte, Roth & Zabel
919 Third Avenue (enter at 55th Street)

The Steinberg Playwright Awards advance the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust’s tradition of encouraging artistic excellence in the American theater. And fittingly, the Distinguished Playwright Award, to be presented every other year, has been created to honor and encourage the finest American playwrights, whose bodies of work have made powerful and significant contributions to the world of theater, and whose future works we eagerly await.

The ‘Mimi’ will honor a mid-career American playwright whose body of work has already been recognized and will have a cash prize of $200,000, making this by far the largest award ever created to honor and encourage artistic achievement in the American theater.

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