Grant recipients will be
recommended by an advisory board made up of theater
industry insiders: the actress Annette Bening («20th Century Women»); the award - winning playwrights Lynn Nottage («Sweat»), Tom Stoppard («The Coast of Utopia») and David Henry Hwang («M. Butterfly»); the directors Trip Cullman («Six Degrees of Separation») and Leigh Silverman («Violet»); and two artistic directors of Off Broadway companies, Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater, and Mimi O'Donnell of Labyrinth Theater Company.