Zeniba Now.
NEW YORK CITY: The Dramatists Guild Basis (DGF) has introduced multifaceted artist Zeniba Now because the recipient of the 2023 Thom Thomas Award, given yearly to an alumnus of the DGF Fellows program who demonstrates nice creative ability.
Since 2016, DGF has bestowed this award to commemorate playwright Thom Thomas’s infinite ardour for nurturing the following era of dramatists and his appreciation of DGF’s help of writers. The Award grants the recipient $10,000 to make use of in the direction of livelihood bills, mission bills, journey bills—something that may help their capability to create their finest work.
“Successful this award is an utter delight and a deeply significant shift towards prosperity for me,” stated Zeniba Now in an announcement. “Being a former DGF Fellow, I actually understand how marvelously gifted the pool of candidates is, and I’m honored to be this yr’s choice. Beneficiant items, prizes, and awards are the muse of my creative sustainability and I’m touched that my work related with the panelists.”
Zeniba Now could be a musical storyteller and artscientist from Los Angeles who makes work to encourage magic and chance in human consciousness. Her work as a author consists of the shorts Beloved; To Be on Maintain Ceaselessly, a part of Human Sources at St. Louis Rep and Woolly Mammoth; and The Nap Anthem. Her full-length works embody The Loophoole on the Public Theater and the forthcoming Take the Lead. Her one-woman specials iQuit: Millennial Retirement Gala and Sincerely, Z might be seen on TikTok and YouTube. Earlier awards embody the 2020 Richard Rodgers Award, the 2021 Vivace Award, and the 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant.
The Thom Thomas Award is made potential by means of the beneficiant help of Thomas’s longtime mates and colleagues Iris Rainer Dart and Helen Lee Henderson.
“Thom was a considerate, gifted man and author and my shut pal for sixty years,” Rainer Dart stated in an announcement. “I’m proud to have been one of many founders of this award and moved by the legacy he left behind. Thom wished to offer younger writers the respiration room and the time to create. Due to this award, they may have some measure of each.”
Previous recipients iclude Avi Amon (2021); Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Julia Meinwald, and Benjamin Velez (2020); Riti Sachdeva (2019); Stefanie Zadravec (2018); Sylvan Oswald (2017); and Chisa Hutchinson (2016).
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