Bill Bowers, Bob Brader, Austin Pendelton, Anna Deavere Smith, et al. Win United Solo Festival Awards
in Let Me Down Easy
(© Joan Marcus)
Anna Deveare Smith has won United Solo Festival’s uAward, which recognizes an artist’s achievements in popularizing the concept of one person shows. The prize was presented in a ceremony hosted by Marsha Mason on Sunday, November 21 at Theatre Row, the same day the two-week festival concluded.
Other awardees included Bill Bowers for Best Production for It Goes Without Saying; Bob Brader for Best Script for Spitting in the Face of the Devil; Austin Pendelton for Best Directing for CLUTTER: I’m Saving My Life and It’s Killing Me; and Patty Staco, who won the Audience Award for In My Shoes.
Winners also included performers John Paul Karliak, Danusia Trevin, Brian Stanton, Alica Dattner, Prescott Smith, and Jelena Stuplijanin.
