TCG Theatre Practitioner Award

Foundation | Regional Funder | Theatre Practitioner | Peter Zeisler Memorial Award

The TCG Theatre Practitioner Award recognizes an individual - artist or administrator, institutionally affiliated or unaffiliated - whose work in the American theatre has evidenced exemplary achievement over time and who has contributed significantly to the development of the larger field.

While the award was originally designed to honor an individual, nominations for an ensemble, collective or partnership will be considered in cases in which joint/collective contribution makes it difficult to pinpoint the primacy of a single individual.

Past recipients of this award have been Zelda Fichandler, Lloyd Richards, Ming Cho Lee, Ellen Stewart and Maria Irene Fornes.

Nomination forms will be mailed to TCG member theatres in November. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact Jenni Werner, National Conference Director.

The 2006 Recipient of the TCG Theatre Practitioner Award was Woodie King, Jr.

Woodie King, Jr. is a founder and producing director of New Federal Theatre in New York City. New Federal Theatre has presented over 180 productions in its 36-year history. Mr. King has produced and directed Off-Broadway, on Broadway, in regional theatres, and in universities across the United States.