Awards & prizes.

American Theatre, February, 2005

Two theatre artists numbered among the eight individuals who received the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush in a November

ceremony in the Oval Office. The nation's highest honor for artistic excellence, administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, was bestowed upon opera composer and librettist Carlisle Floyd--whose decades-spanning work includes Susannah and Of Mice and Men--and choreographer Twyla Tharp, whose most recent accolade is a 2003 Tony for Broadway's Movin' Out.

The League of Professional Theatre Women gave its annual Lee Reynolds Award for work that illuminates possibilities for social, cultural or political change to playwright/lyricist Gretchen Cryer and composer Nancy Ford. Their collaborations include...

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