The Josephine Abady Award

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To honor the memory of member Josephine Abady, The League of Professional Theatre Women presents an annual award to an emerging director and/or producer, inclusive of all women of color, or the creative director and/or producer of a work of cultural diversity who has worked professionally in the theater for a period of at least five years. The applicant may have worked under AEA jurisdiction, regional, off-Broadway, Broadway and LORT theatres.

 

Previous award recipients include:

Comedy and Tragedy
Josephine Abady Award 2005 - Evelyn Collins

EVELYN COLLINS, Founder & Director of the Harlem Ensemble Company

Debra Ann Byrd
Josephine Abady Award 2006 - Debra Ann Byrd

DEBRA ANN BYRD, Founder & Producing Artistic Director of Take Wing And Soar Productions, Inc.

Gisela Cardenas
Josephine Abady Award 2008 - Gisela Cardenas

GISELA CARDENAS, Director

Tamilla Woodard
Josephine Abady Award 2009 - Tamilla Woodard

TAMILLA WOODARD, Director