| Nathan Lane and Lincoln Center Theater’s André Bishop to be honored at the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards...6/10 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:26 pm EDT 05/09/24 | |
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| www.DramaDeskAward.com Stage and screen star Nathan Lane will receive the Harold S. Prince Award for Lifetime Achievement and Lincoln Center Theater's André Bishop will receive the inaugural William Wolf Award at the 68 Annual Drama Desk Awards, being held on Monday, June 10 beginning at 6:15PM at NYU Skirball Center (556 LaGuardia Place). Staci Levine and Jessica R. Jenen will Executive Produce the Awards and David Barbour and Charles Wright are The Drama Desk co-presidents. Beginning with the 2020 ceremony, the Drama Desk Awards has honored the memory of legendary director and producer Harold Prince with the presentation of the Harold S. Prince Award, recognizing an individual for a lifetime achievement of outstanding contributions to the theatre. The director-producer posthumously received the inaugural, namesake honor. The new William Wolf Award commemorates the career of the late entertainment journalist, theater and film critic, and inspiring teacher, who was a longtime president of the Drama Desk. This award has been founded to recognize achievement, high standards, and innovation, including generosity and "giving back" to the entertainment community. "We're delighted to honor Nathan Lane and André Bishop," said Drama Desk co-presidents David Barbour and Charles Wright. "Nathan is one of the most versatile actors on the English-speaking stage, with range from musical theater to works of Eugene O'Neill and Tony Kushner. André, at the helm of two distinguished theater companies, has nurtured and championed a myriad of important artists—especially playwrights. It's a privilege to celebrate their achievements." The Drama Desk Awards are the only major New York City theater awards for which productions on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off Off Broadway compete against each other in the same categories. As was the case last year, all performance categories are gender-free. The updated gender-free categories are: Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play, Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical, Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical. What sets the Drama Desk Awards apart is that they are voted on and bestowed by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theater. The Drama Desk Awards honor all aspects of New York's professional theater. The Drama Desk Awards will be producing a Tribute Journal for those who would like to celebrate and honor their colleagues. The Drama Desk Awards Tribute Journal will be available online via a QR code provided to all participants at the event, as well as on multiple screens, including on the full stage projection screen prior to the start of the event. Interested parties can click on this LINK. * * * About The Drama Desk The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories. All Drama Desk officers and nominating committee members perform their various services for the organization on a voluntary basis. The organization takes pride in announcing that the awards are then voted on "by impartial media people only," without any vested interests in the results. Today, 100 New York theater critics, reporters, writers, and arts editors vote on the awards. Nathan Lane His most recent production, Pictures From Home, marked Mr. Lane's 25th Broadway play. He made his debut in the 1982 revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, directed by and starring George C. Scott. Other credits include: Merlin, The Wind in the Willows, Some Americans Abroad, On Borrowed Time, Guys and Dolls, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Love! Valour! Compassion!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Producers, The Play What I Wrote, The Frogs, The Odd Couple, Butley, November, Waiting For Godot, The Addams Family, The Nance, It's Only A Play, The Front Page, Angels in America, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, and the Goodman Theater production at BAM of the Iceman Cometh. He has been seen Off-Broadway in many plays and in 1992 received the Obie for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Television credits include: "The People vs. OJ," "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels," and numerous guest/recurring roles, including: "The Good Wife," "Modern Family," "Frasier," "Mad About You," "Sex and the City," "30 Rock," "Absolutely Fabulous," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Difficult People," and 'The Blacklist." He can currently be seen as Ward McAllister in "The Gilded Age" and as Teddy Dimas in "Only Murders in the Building" for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award after a record breaking seven nominations in the guest actor category, a record he just broke with his eighth nomination for the same role. He has also received two Daytime Emmy Awards and the People's Choice Award. He has appeared in over 35 films, including Ironweed, Frankie and Johnny, Life With Mikey, The Lion King, Jeffrey, The Birdcage, Mouse Hunt, Stuart Little, Love's Labour's Lost, Nicholas Nickleby, Teacher's Pet, The Producers, Swing Vote and Mirror, Mirror. He has received two Golden Globe nominations, a SAG Award, a National Board of Review Ensemble Award, and an American Comedy Award. He was recently seen in A24's Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid starring Joaquin Phoenix, and Dicks: The Musical, directed by Larry Charles. In 2024 he will be in the new Skydance/Netflix animated film, Spellbound, as well as the new season of "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" as Dominick Dunne. In 2006 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2008 he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. André Bishop André Bishop has been the Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater since January 1992 and Producing Artistic Director since July 2013, where he has developed and produced new plays and musicals by many of America's leading playwrights, composers, and lyricists. Among his many significant achievements, he is proudest of leading the creation of the Claire Tow Theater on top of the Beaumont at Lincoln Center Theater, and the LCT3 program, whose mission is to produce new work by the next generation of theater artists and engage new audiences. Mr. Bishop also directed the growth of Lincoln Center Theater's education program, Open Stages, which nurtures deep partnerships with schools that lack the resources to sustain arts programming. Before arriving at Lincoln Center, Mr. Bishop served as Playwrights Horizons' Artistic Director for ten years and as its Literary Manager for six where his productions included three Pulitzer Prize winners: The Heidi Chronicles , Driving Miss Daisy , and Sunday in the Park with George. A 2012 Theater Hall of Fame inductee, Mr. Bishop has won numerous theater awards including 15 Tony Awards and 16 Drama Desk Awards. He is on the boards of Playwrights Horizons, the Kleban Foundation, Ten Chimneys Foundation, Kurt Weill Foundation and MasterVoices. www.DramaDeskAward.com |
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