McCarter Theatre Center's Emily Mann to Receive Margo Jones Award
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McCarter Theatre Center artistic director and resident playwright Emily Mann has been named the recipient of the 2015 Margo Jones Award presented by The Ohio State University Libraries and OSU Arts and Humanities. The award is described as
honoring "those who have demonstrated a significant impact, understanding, and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, and who have encouraged the living theater everywhere."
Mann has overseen over 200 productions at McCarter Theatre Center where she has served as artistic director for 25 seasons. During her tenure, McCarter has received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater (1994) and the 2013 Best Play Tony Award for Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Recent productions directed at McCarter include Antony & Cleopatra, Proof, A Delicate Balance, and the world premieres of The Convert (also at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles), The How and the Why, and Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I (also at Playwrights Horizons). The East Coast premiere of Rachel Bonds’ Five Mile Lake will open at McCarter this May under her direction.
The Margo Jones Award will be presented to Mann at McCarter Theatre Center on May 16. The ceremony will include speakers Nadine Strossen, Jade King Carroll, and Christopher Durang who received the award (along with Marsha Norman) in 2004 for his work with the Juilliard School’s Playwrights Program.
Members of the Medal Committee are Deborah Robison for the family of Jerome Lawrence; Janet Waldo Lee, Lucy Lee, and Jonathan Barlow Lee for the family of Robert E. Lee; and Nena Couch, Beth Kattelman, and Mary Tarantino for the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at the Ohio State University.
