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2022 Alan Schneider Director Award Nomination

By Emilya Cachapero posted 12-13-2021 16:06

  

We’re thrilled to share the latest nomination process for the Alan Schneider Director Award. The award is designed to identify and assist exceptionally talented mid-career freelance directors whose achievements have been demonstrated through work in specific U.S. regions or territories, but who may not be known more widely or recognized nationally. Please help us spread the word and nominate someone today! The deadline for submitting a nomination is Friday, January 21, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

A prolific director and mentor, Alan Schneider was responsible for over one hundred productions in U.S. theatre, introducing audiences to playwrights such as Samuel Beckett (Schneider directed the 1956 U.S. premiere of Waiting for Godot); Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?); Michael Weller (Moonchildren and Loose Ends); Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter and The Collection); and Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle). Schneider taught at Catholic University, the Juilliard School, and the University of California at San Diego; was associated with Arena Stage for thirty years; was the co-artistic director of the Acting Company; and at the time of his death was the president of the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

Past recipients include: Daniel Banks, May Adrales, Kimberly Senior, Liesl Tommy, Bart DeLorenzo, Anne Kauffman, Joel Sass, Michael John Garcés, Nancy Keystone, and Darko Tresnjak.

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