New Dramatists is an organization of playwrights in New York City who participate in seven-year residencies to build up their skills and career.
 The organization was opened in New York City's Theater District in 1949.
 In addition to housing resident playwrights, New Dramatists also holds workshops for young authors.
 The organization hosts an annual luncheon at which actors and producers who have made contributions to American theatre are honored.
 Brian Stokes Mitchell, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep are among past honorees.
Michael Hollinger (born January 13, 1962 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American playwright who is currently an associate professor of Theatre at Villanova University and an alumnus of New Dramatists.
 He received a Bachelor of Music in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1984 and a Master of Arts in theatre from Villanova in 1989.
 He has been married to Megan Bellwoar since 1990.
Mona Mansour is an American playwright of Middle Eastern descent.
 She has been a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group and a Playwrights' Center Core Writer.
 She is currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
 Mansour often writes about the Middle East, and she has frequently collaborated with English director Mark Wing-Davey.
 In addition to her theater work, Mansour has written for the television shows Queens Supreme and Dead Like Me.
Lisa D'Amour is a playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans.
 D'Amour is an alumna of New Dramatists.
 Her play "Detroit" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Chiori Miyagawa is a Japanese- born American playwright, poet, dramaturg, and fiction writer based in New York City.
 She was born in Nagano, Japan before moving to the United States at an age of 16.
 She has received many fellowships including the New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University.
 Her plays have been published by Seagull Books and NoPassport Press in two collections: "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays" and "America Dreaming and Other Plays".
 She was a resident playwright at the New Dramatists and is a playwright-in-residence at Bard College.
Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957) is an American stage, film and television actor and singer.
 A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s.
 He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2000 for his performance in "Kiss Me, Kate".
Alan Bowne (1945–1989) was an American playwright and author.
 He was a member of the New Dramatists.
Steve Cosson is a writer and director specializing in the creation of new theatre work inspired by real life, as well as a free-lance director of new plays, musicals, and classics.
 He is the founding Artistic Director of the New York-based investigative theater company The Civilians.
 Cosson won an Obie award in 2004 for his work with The Civilians and his play (I Am) Nobody's Lunch won a coveted First Fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a MacDowell Fellow, twice participated in the Sundance Theatre Lab, and a Resident Director at New Dramatists.
 His plays have been published by Oberon Books in the UK, Dramatists Play Service, and an anthology of his plays with The Civilians was published by Playscripts Inc.
Mary Gallagher is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, actress, director and teacher.
 For six years, she was artistic director of Gypsy, a theatre company in the Hudson Valley, New York, which collaborated with many artists to create site-specific mask-and-puppet music-theatre with texts and lyrics by Gallagher.
 These pieces included "Premanjali and the 7 Geese Brothers", "Ama" and "The Scottish Play".
 In 1996-97, she directed the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, and she taught playwriting and screenwriting at New York University/Tisch School of the Arts from 2001 to 2010.
 She is a member of Actors & Writers, a theater company in the Hudson Valley, and the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York City.
 She is an alumna of New Dramatists, where she developed many of her plays and created and moderated the series, "You Can Make a Life: Conversations with Playwrights" from 1994 to 2001.
Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist.
 A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988.
 His plays, which include "Messalina" and "Delirium Palace" (both Garland Playwriting Award winners), have been performed in New York and Los Angeles.
 Graduate of Reed College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
 He is an alumnus of New Dramatists.

Question: The male honoree of New Dramatists won a Tony for his performance in what musical?
Answer: "Kiss Me, Kate"