New York, NY – The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, in its dedication to upholding the legacy of Princess Grace of Monaco, (née Grace Kelly) and elevating extraordinary emerging artists in theatre, dance, and film through career-advancing grants, has announced eighteen Princess Grace Award winners, eleven Honoraria recipients, and one recipient of the New Dramatists Playwriting Fellowship.
*Ed. Note: Guild members are denoted by an asterisk.
2023 New Dramatists Playwriting Fellowship
2023 Princess Grace Awards – Theater
Ino Badanjak
Nominated by: The Juilliard School
Grace Le Vine Theater Honor
Tislarm Bouie
Nominated by: David Mendizábal, Princess Grace Award winner (Theater 2021)
John Gore Theater Honor
Amy Higdon
Nominated by: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Pierre Cardin Theater Honor
Jesús I. Valles
Nominated by: Lucas Baisch, Princess Grace Award winner (Playwriting 2021)
Gant Gaither Theater Honor
Salvador Zamora
Nominated by: University of California, San Diego
Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor
2023 Theater Honoraria
Sequoiah Blaire
Nominated by: Stanford University
Diggle
Nominated by: The Public Theater
Grzegorz Labuda
Nominated by: Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
Julia Riew
Nominated by: American Repertory Theater
Luna Izpisua Rodriguez
Nominated by: California Institute of the Arts
2023 Special Project Grants – Playwriting
Francisco Mendoza*
Project: Machine Learning
For a complete list of this year’s Princess Grace honorees, visit the Foundation’s website.