On Monday, April 27, 2026, in Midtown Manhattan, the Dramatists Guild honored Migdalia Cruz, Bess Wohl, Lisa Kron, Kimber Lee, Victor I. Cazares, Benjamin Velez and Joy Huerta, and Liberty Welch and Maggie Lawson at our annual Awards Night. The Dramatists Guild Awards, the only awards given to theatre writers by theatre writers, are a celebration of community and the remarkable talent that enriches the American theatre.
In addition to recognizing our award recipients, the evening marked the centennial of the negotiation of the Guild’s first enforceable contract: The Minimum Basic Agreement. To mark this tremendous occasion, the Guild was honored with a Proclamation from Mayor Zohran Mamdani commemorating the day, presented by New York State Senator Erik Bottcher.
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have been following Bess’s work for so long now, and I know for a fact that it took her years to write Liberation, fifteen different drafts, and, writer to writer, in “first draft culture,” as Lynn Nottage calls it, that is a profound thing to celebrate.
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