Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) has announced the recipient and three finalists for the annual Zelda Fichandler Award. The Fichandler Award recognizes directors and choreographers who have demonstrated great accomplishment to-date with singular creativity and deep investment in a particular community or region, and is named for Zelda Fichandler, the founding artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. This year’s Fichandler Award focused on directors and choreographers from the eastern United States.  The 2020 award will be presented to Kamilah Forbes, executive producer of the Apollo Theater in New York City. Kamilah Forbes is an esteemed, award-winning director and producer for theater and television. In her diverse body of work, Forbes is noted for her strong commitment to the development of creative works by, for, and about the Hip-Hop generation. The selection committee for the Fichandler Award was chaired by Bill Rauch, 2012 Fichandler Award recipient and artistic director of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, currently under construction at the World Trade Center. He was joined on the committee by directors Benny Sato Ambush and Lydia Fort, as well as director-choreographer Ty Defoe. Carol Dunne, Seema Sueko, and Pirronne Yousefzadeh were all named as finalists. Press contact: Rebecca Hewett/SDCF (646/524-2226)...