Ann Closs-Farley Wins 2010 Richard E. Sherwood Award

Costume designer Ann Closs-Farley won the Center Theatre Group’s 2010 Richard E. Sherwood Award. The honor, which carries a $10,000 cash prize, was created in 1996 to identify and support innovative, adventurous artists in different areas of theater, and to build a creative relationship between the recipient and CTG.

Closs-Farley’s recent credits include The Pee-wee Herman Show, Disney’s Toy Story: The Musical, An Evening Without Monty Python, The Receptionist, Land of the Tigers, and James and the Giant Peach, as well as The Projectionist at the CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre.

She received a 2009 Ovation Award for Ken Roht’s 99-Cent Only Calendar Girl Competition, and L.A. Weekly and Garland Awards for her work on Bat Boy: The Musical, When Tigers Smoked Long Pipes, and Echo’s Hammer, among others. Closs-Farley is a long time member of the Actors’ Gang and evidEnce room companies.

In related news, CTG has announced that composer Sage Lewis will premiere his new work Far Away, a new multi-media project commissioned by CTG in collaboration with Cuba’s top youth chorus, Coro Diminuto, at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica on December 18 at 7pm as a fulfillment of his 2009 Sherwood Award. The work will be performed by the renowned National Children’s Chorus.