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David Ives, Tom Kitt, Lanford Wilson and Polly Pen Honored by Dramatists Guild

David Ives
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David Ives
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Playwrights David Ives and Lanford Wilson and composers Tom Kitt and Polly Pen have been announced as winners of annual awards from The Dramatists Guild of America. The group will present the writers with their honors at an awards ceremony on November 2.

Ives has won the 2008 Hull-Warriner Award, for his play New Jerusalem, a historical drama about philosopher Baruch de Spinoza that played at Classic Stage Company early last year. Kitt will receive the Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition, for his score to Next to Normal at the November ceremony.

Pen, who’s written such musicals as Bed and Sofa and Goblin Market, will receive the Flora Roberts Award, which is presented to a theater professional in recognition of distinguished work in the theater and to encourage the continuation of that work. Wilson, author of such plays as Fifth of July, Hot L Baltimore and Burn This, will be the recipient of the Dramatists Guild Award for Lifetime Achievement.

For further information, visit www.dramatistsguild.com.