Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation

Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation give awards to new songwriters and book writers. The foundation was created by American Theatre Wing Board Member, Sondra Gilman, and Texas Art Commissioner, Celso Gonzalez-Falla. The Musical Theatre Award is accompanied by a grant of $25,000. A number of smaller grants (between $1,000- $5,000) are also awarded at the ceremony. To qualify the "writers must have had at least one musical produced in either a commercial or a professional non-profit theatre in America."^[1]

Previous Musical Theatre Award winners

Year	Winner(s)
1991	Craig Carnelia
1992	Louis Rosen
1993	Jeffrey Lunden and Arthur Perlman
1995	Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
1996	Jason Robert Brown[2] and Ray Leslee
1998	Robert Lindsay Nassif (author of Honky Tonk Highway & Ellior Ness in Cleveland).[3]
1999	Doug Cohen[3] and Polly Pen[3]
2000	Kirsten Childs
2001	Andrew Lippa[1]
2003	Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin[4]

Other Winners

• Michael John LaChiusa
• Robert Lindsay Nassif
• Andrew Lippa

Grants

The Foundation also gives out commendations of $1000–$5000. Previous winners include:

• Kirsten Childs^[1]
• Martin Sylvestri^[1]
• Joel Higgins^[1]
• John Bucchino^[1]
• David Evans^[1]
• Bill Russell (lyricist)^[1]
• Lynn Ahrens^[1]
• Stephen Flaherty^[1]
• Jonathan Larson^[1]

References

1. Salinas, Mike (20 February 2001). "Gilman, Gonzalez-Falla Select Lippa for Award". Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
2. "Jason Robert Brown". Broadway Teaching Group. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
3. "Callaway, Blazer, Skinner Celebrate Cohen & Pen at 1999 Gilman Gonzalez-Falla Awards". Playbill. 19 October 1999. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-11-20. Retrieved 2021-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)