ANNOUNCING THE 4th ANNUAL LILLY AWARDS

The 2013 Lilly Awards will take place on Monday, June 3rd at Playwrights Horizons. This year we are honoring actress Lois Smith and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize founder Mimi Kilgore for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater.

This year’s honorees include Jessica Hecht, Jill Du Boff, Paula Vogel, Julie Crosby, Laura Marks, Tonya Barfield, and Lear De Bessonet. We will also celebrate Jiehae Park for winning the Leah Ryan Prize and honor architect Denise Scott Brown with a Lilly Award.

The winners will be presented with their awards by the likes of Sarah Ruhl, Marsha Norman, Lisa Kron, Theresa Rebeck, Leigh Silverman, Terry Kinney, Neena Beeber, David Van Tieghem, Mandy Greenfield, Alex Kilgore, Cusi Cram and other surprise guests.

Since we do have costs associated with running the awards ceremony we are now accepting donations! As we grow, we are hoping to expand the awards ceremony to include cash prizes and/or in kind gifts for the winners and also to eventually offer modest scholarships for women pursuing further education in the theater. We are starting small but thinking big!

The Lilly Awards are a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of The Lilly Awards must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Donate today!