The 2023 recipient of the Lee Reynolds Award is Melody Brooks, founder and Artistic Director of New Perspectives Theatre Company and an award-winning producer, director and dramaturg who has worked in the professional theatre and various educational institutions for 40 years. Brooks leads NPTC's Women's Work Project (WW), developing award-winning and critically acclaimed scripts since 1994. She was dramaturg for She Calls Me Firefly by Teresa Lotz (Winner 2019 NYITA Best Short Play), co-produced by NPTC and Parity Productions, for NPTC's OOBR-winning The Taming of the Shrew, and currently for How to Melt ICE, developed in the WW LAB and a NYC Women's Fund grant recipient.
Brooks received the "Trailblazing Women and Arts Institutions Award" from Rhythm Color Associates and the "Spirit of Hope Award" from Speranza Theatre Company for her support of women theatre artists. In 2019 NPTC was named a "Cultural Architect" by The Jubilee for pioneering work in DEIA. Brooks is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) and has co-produced the triennial LPTW Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award since 2014.
The League of Professional Theatre Women is a membership organization for professional theatre women representing a diversity of identities, backgrounds, and disciplines.
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