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The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust / Steinberg Distinguished U.S. Playwright and Emerging U.S. Playwright AwardsThe Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust announce the newly established Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award to honor a mid-career U.S. playwright. Award is $200,000, believed to be the largest award for playwrights in the country. The first award will be given the fall of 2008 and biennially thereafter. The Emerging Playwright Award will begin to be awarded in 2009 and biennially thereafter. Two recipients will each be awarded $50,000. The trust has established an advisory committee of prominent theater professionals to determine the criteria for the awards, nominate playwrights, and select the recipients. The members of the committee are André Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater; David Emmes, producing artistic director of South Coast Repertory; Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater; Polly K. Carl, producing artistic director of Playwrights Center; Martha Lavey, artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Eduardo Machado, playwright and artistic director of INTAR Theatre; and Marc Masterson, artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Steinberg Charitable Trust |