Seven Theatre Artists Receive $1.925 Million in Doris Duke Artist Awards

Stage Directions: The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) announced the 2015 class of Doris Duke Artists. Twenty remarkable performing artists will each receive $275,000 in flexible, multi-year funding as an investment in and celebration of their ongoing contributions to the fields of contemporary dance, theatre and jazz. With this year’s class, the foundation will have awarded $22 million among 80 Doris Duke Artists. Since the awards program’s inception, $7.425 million of these funds have gone to 27 theatre artists.