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News & ArtsTuesday, November 1, 2011
Arts / Theater Seattle Arts Folks Are Getting National Awards Today
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Speight Jenkins, who's been running Seattle Opera since God was a boy, has won a lifetime achievement award from the NEA. (You can see a tribute video here.) Today, the Young Shakespeare Workshop is also scheduled to win an award and some grant money from the White House for their free Shakespeare intensives for high-schoolers. (Full disclosure: I was in the YSW program in high school, purely by accident—I followed a girl I had a crush on to the audition and somehow got in. Luckily for me, she did too.)
I'm guessing that other emails about Seattle-based award-winners will be rolling in from D.C. soon.
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Olivier Wevers, former PNB dancer and now artistic director (and founder) of Whim W'Him, also picked up a national honor: the 2011 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship.
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Make that 2 Seattle artists getting the 2011 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship - Zoe Scofield got it as well.
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