7th Annual Lilly Awards—New York—Mon, May 23, 2016—#LillyAwards
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-05-25

The Lilly Awards proudly presents The 7th Annual Lilly Awards, honoring extraordinary women artists by promoting gender parity at all levels of theatrical production. This year’s ceremony will take place at Pershing Square Signature Center, livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday, May 23 at 5pm EDT (New York) / 4pm CDT (Chicago) / 2pm PDT (Los Angeles). Use #LillyAwards on Twitter. 

Honorees include Tony Award winning actress and 2016 Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller (Waitress), playwright Danai Gurira (Eclipsed, Familiar), Tony Award nominated actress Martha Plimpton, director Kate Whoriskey, actress and advocate Kathy Najimy, playwright Genne Murphy, director Candis Jones, playwright Rehana Lew Mirza, actress and activist Mia Katigbak, and the women of Waking the Feminists. The Lilly Awards will also recognize Norbert Leo Butz and his organization, the Angel Band Project, and will announce the winners of the $25,000 Stacey Mindich Prize and the Leah Ryan Prize.

Writer, political activist, and feminist organizer Gloria Steinem and Academy Award winner and 2016 Tony Award nominee Lupita Nyong’o will be on hand to present awards. Other presenters include Diane Paulus, Lloyd Suh, Russell G. Jones, Rachel Chavkin, and Neena Beeber. 

The Lilly Awards are made possible with generous support from The Dramatists Guild and The New York Women’s Foundation, and sustaining assistance from the Lilly Awards Leadership Circle.

The Lilly Awards began in 2010, founded by Julia Jordan, Marsha Norman, and Theresa Rebeck. The Awards are named for Lillian Hellman, a pioneering American playwright who famously said, “You need to write like the devil and act like one too when necessary.”

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