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Micki Grant Wins Equity’s 2009 Paul Robeson Award

New York City
Actor, composer/lyricist and playwright Micki Grant has won Actors’ Equity Association’s 2009 Paul Robeson Award. The award will be presented at the October 9 General Membership Meeting at the Equity’s headquarters in New York City.

Grant won Outer Critics Circle Awards for performance and score for Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope. Her musical Your Arms To Short To Box With God garnered Tony Award nominations for book music and lyrics, and a Grammy nomination for score. Among her other stage credits: Langston Hughes’ Tambourines To Glory, which marked her Broadway debut, the national tour of Emily Mann’s Having Our Say and regional productions of The Cradle Will Rock, Brecht on Brecht and To Be Young, Gifted and Black. Grant was the first African-American contract player on a daytime TV soap, playing attorney Peggy Nolan for seven years on Another World. Other television credits include The Edge of Night and Guiding Light.

Now in its 35th year, The Paul Robeson Award was first presented in 1974 to recognize a person who best exemplified the principles by which Mr. Robeson lived. Past recipients include Sidney Poitier, Lloyd Richards, Judith Jamison, Carl Harms, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.