Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, has announced its first annual “SDC Foundation Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in Directing and Choreography.” The evening will bring together the presentations of SDCF’s annual Zelda Fichandler Award, Joe A. Callaway Awards, and Breakout Award. The event will take place on Mon Oct 30 at The Green Room 42. The 2017 Fichandler Award will be presented to winner Vivienne Benesch of Playmakers Rep (Chapel Hill, NC). Finalists Curt Columbus of Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, RI) and Wendy C. Goldberg of Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT) will also be recognized for their contributions to the field. The Award recognizes directors and choreographers who are in the center of their creative lives, demonstrate great accomplishment to-date and promise for the future, and who have made prominent achievements in the field with singular creativity and artistry and deep investment in a particular community or region. The Callaway Awards are peer-given awards that recognize excellence in the arts of stage direction and choreography in a given New York City Off-Broadway season. The 2017 Callaway winners and finalists are scheduled to be announced on October 2. The Breakout Award, now in its second year, is given by the SDCF Executive Board to an SDC Member for a production or selection of work that signals a shift in a career and the beginning of critical recognition – a “rising star” moment in the Off-Broadway arena. The 2017 winner will be announced in October. Press contact: Elishia Merricks/SDCF (646/524-2226)...