www.broadwayworld.com: "During this extremely challenging moment in history, when longstanding concerns of equity and justice have intersected with a deadly pandemic and its attendant loss of jobs in the theater, the Henry Hewes Design Awards committee and the Hewes Foundation are especially grateful to be able to honor excellence in New York theater design for the 56th year," said Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, Chair of the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee. "As theater design has evolved, the awards have also expanded their emphasis to include new categories in Sound Design and Media Design that will be permanent as we move forward."
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I had no idea awards like these existed. Even as a “behind the scenes” artist myself, I find myself always letting the designers and managers go unappreciated. It is built into the nature of theater itself that actors get more of the mainstream recognition. And that's unlikely to change anytime soon. But I never realized how much I bought into this idea in my head that actors deserve more praise than other theater artists. When discussing a production with my friends, I am quick to praise an actor for their work. But then I discuss the design as if it just appeared. I guess it is the expectation that the work of designers stands alone without them to explain it. But I still wish that their work could somehow be more connected to them like the work of an actor. That they could get the recognition they deserve. Personally, I am in an ongoing battle with myself to stop invalidating the work I, and many others do. I am thrilled to know awards like these exist, and have existed for a long time. But I hope some day, the world of theater gets to a point where us designers have role models we can look up to that do what we do.
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