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DISCIPLINE | DRAMA
Craig Lucas | Playwright
Craig Lucas' plays include Missing Persons, Blue Window, Reckless, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer For My Enemy and The Singing Forest. He wrote the book for The Light In The Piazza, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel; the musical play Three Postcards, music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia; the libretto for the opera Orpheus in Love, music by Gerald Busby; and he has recently completed the libretto for Two Boys, an opera with composer Nico Muhly, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and scheduled to premiere there in a co-production with the English National Opera. His new English adaptations include Brecht's Galileo, Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, and Strindberg's Miss Julie. His screenplays include Longtime Companion (Sundance Audience Award), The Secret Lives of Dentists (New York Film Critics Best Screenplay), Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Dying Gaul, which he also directed.
Twice nominated for a Tony (Prelude to a Kiss and The Light in the Piazza), three times for the Drama Desk (Prelude, Missing Persons and Reckless), he has won the L.A. Drama Critics Award (Blue Window), the Steinberg/American Theater Critics Award for Best American Play (The Singing Forest), the Hull-Warriner Award (The Light in the Piazza), the LAMBDA Literary Award (for his anthology What I Meant Was), the Flora Roberts Award, the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Laura Pels/PEN Mid-Career Achievement Award and the Joan Cullman Award; he has twice won the Obie Award for Best Play (Prelude and Small Tragedy). He graduated from Boston University where he studied with poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. Lucas serves as Associate Artistic Director at the Intiman Theater in Seattle, and he is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild, SSDC and PEN America. He lives in upstate New York.
GREENFIELD PRIZE DRAMA JURY
Michael Bigelow Dixon (Chair) — Resident Director, Playwrights Center, Minneapolis. Former Literary Manager, Guthrie Theatre
Oskar Eustis — Artistic Director, The Public Theater
Jim Houghton — Artistic Director, The Signature Theater; Director, Julliard Drama School
Michael Donald Edwards — Producing Artistic Director, Asolo Repertory Theatre (non-voting)
Joni Greenfield — The Greenfield Foundation (non-voting)
DISCIPLINE | MUSIC
Eve Beglarian | Composer |
Eve Beglarian "is a humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist."* "One of new music's truly free spirits,"** and a "remarkable experimentalist,"*** she is a composer, performer, and audio producer whose music is "an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements."*
Her chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the California EAR Unit, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Relâche, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Sequitur, the American Composers Orchestra, Maya Beiser, Lauren Flanigan, and Marya Martin, among many other groups and individuals.
Highlights of her work in music theater include music for Mabou Mines' Obie-winning Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, Ecco Porco, and Choephorai directed by Lee Breuer; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater's production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng. She has collaborated with choreographers including Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, Susan Marshall, and David Neumann, and with visual and video artists including Shirin Neshat, Kevork Mourad, Cory Arcangel, Barbara Hammer, and Anne Bray. Performance projects include Songs from a Book of Days, The Story of B, Open Secrets, Hildegurls' Ordo Virtutum, twisted tutu, and typOpera.
* Joseph Woodard, The Los Angeles Times
** Kyle Gann, The Village Voice
*** Albert Innaurato, The New York Times
GREENFIELD PRIZE MUSIC JURY
Linda Golding (Chair) — Founder, The Reservoir. Former President, Boosey & Hawkes USA Music Publishers
Wu Han — Co-artistic Director, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Ed Harsh — President, Meet The Composer
Leif Bjaland — Artistic Director, The Sarasota Orchestra (non-voting)
Joni Greenfield — The Greenfield Foundation (non-voting)
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