Special Award Recipients
Special Award - Past Recipients
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- 2012 Richard Waterhouse
- 2012 Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, Vermont
- 2011 Christian Borle
- 2011 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
- 2010 Milly BarrangerTop
- 2009 Mike O'Malley
- 2009 BroadwayWorld.com
- 2008 Cady Huffman
- 2008 Michael Berresse
- 2008 Tim Jerome
- 2007 Ellen Kaz
- 2007 Gary Garrison
- 2006 Rick McKay
- 2006 Gregory Jbara
- 2006 Joanna Gleason
- 2005 Laurence Maslon
- 2005 Keith Johnstone
- 2004 William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.
- 2004 David Leong
- 2004 Connie Congdon
- 2003 Mary Hartman, Director of Educational Programs, Shakespeare & Company
- 2003 Eve Ensler
- 2002 Jean-Claude van Itallie
- 2001 United Scenic Artists Local 829
- 2001 Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
- 2000 Sandglass TheatreTop
- 1999 Robert Cohen
- 1999 Edgar Lansbury
- 1999 Danny Newman
- 1998 Donald Wilmeth, Theater Historian
- 1998 David Budries, Sound Designer
- 1998 Ben Mordecai, Broadway producer
- 1997 Nancy Swortzell, Director of the Educational Theatre Program at NYU
- 1997 Lowell Swortzell, Professor of Educational Theatre at New York University
- 1996 Society of American Fight Directors
- 1996 Oskar Eustis
- 1995 Mala Powers
- 1995 Bart Roccoberton, Jr.
- 1994 Suzan Zeder
- 1994 Paul Libin
- 1994 Carole Brandt
- 1994 Baker's Plays
- 1993 Kristen Linklater
- 1993 Dramatists Guild, Inc.
- 1992 Tony Walton
- 1992 Non-Traditional Casting Project
- 1992 Ken Mandelbaum
- 1991 Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, The
- 1991 Richard Schechner
- 1991 Brian Way
- 1990 John Conklin
- 1990 Broadway CaresTop
- 1989 Lucille Lortel
- 1989 League of Historic American Theatres
- 1989 American Masters Series
- 1988 Otis L. Guernsey, Jr.
- 1988 Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library, The
- 1988 Actors Equity Association
- 1987 Theatre Crafts Magazine
- 1987 Arthur & Barbara Gelb
- 1986 Oscar G. Brockette
- 1986 Maryann Plunkett
- 1986 Julie Taymor
- 1986 Gerard Alessandrini
- 1985 Theoni V. Aldredge
- 1985 Stella Adler
- 1985 Playwrights Horizons
- 1984 Playbill Magazine
- 1984 Al Hirschfield
- 1983 Tharon Musser
- 1983 Hough Leonard
- 1982 Oliver Smith
- 1982 National Theatre of the Deaf
- 1982 Hartford Stage Company
- 1981 Negro Ensemble Company, The
- 1981 Henry S. Lodge
- 1980 Joy Jory & Actors Theatre of Louisville
- 1980 Gerald Boardman
- 1980 Ellis RabbTop
- 1979 Woodie King
- 1979 Ming Cho Lee
- 1979 Harvey Sabinson
- 1978 Uta Hagen
- 1978 FEDAPT
- 1977 Manhattan Theatre Club, The
- 1977 Lehman Engel
- 1976 Theatre Communications Group
- 1976 Theater in America
- 1976 Alois Nagler
- 1975 Village Voice, The
- 1975 Theatre Development Fund
- 1974 Zelda Fichandler
- 1974 Louis Sheaffer
- 1974 Brooks Atkinson
- 1973 Patricia Zipprodt
- 1973 Alexander H. Cohen
- 1972 Harold Scott
- 1972 American Playwrights' Theatre
- 1971 Merce Cunningham
- 1971 Chelsea Theater Center
- 1970 Peter Stone
- 1970 Michael Butler
- 1970 Joe Layton
- 1970 Boris AronsonTop
- 1969 Playwrights' Unit, The
- 1969 Karl Malden
- 1969 Julius Novickk
- 1969 Edwin Sherin
- 1969 Budd Schulberg and the Watts Writers' Workshop
- 1968 Tom O'Horgan
- 1968 Lyn Ely
- 1968 Corey, Orlin & Irene
- 1967 Theodore Fuchs
- 1967 Stanley McCandless
- 1967 Hyman, Earle
- 1967 Horace Armistead
- 1965 John Gassner
- 1965 Free Southern Theatre
- 1965 Alvin Alley
- 1965 Adrienne Kennedy
- 1964 Richard Boone
- 1964 Raymond Sovey
- 1964 Jewish Theological Seminary
- 1963 Frederick O'Neil
- 1962 Living Theatre, The
- 1961 National Thespian Society, The
- 1961 Grove Press
- 1960 David SusskindTop
- 1959 Playhouse 90
- 1958 Norris Houghton
- 1957 Hill & Wang