Dayna Taymor and Travis Wall win SDCF's Callaway Awards

2/10/2021 1:46pm


Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation affiliated with Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, has announced that the 2020 Joe A Callaway Awards will be awarded to Danya Taymor for excellence in directing for "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" (Playwrights Horizons) and Travis Wall for excellence in choreography for "The Wrong Man" (MCC Theater). The Callaway Awards, along with the previously announced Gordon Davidson Award and Zelda Fichandler Award, were presented virtually on February 8, 2021. The Callaway Awards are peer-given awards recognizing excellence in the arts of stage direction and choreography in a given New York City Off-Broadway season. Callaway finalists are Knud Adams for excellence in directing for "The Headlands" (Lincoln Center Theater) and Les Waters for excellence in directing for "The Thin Place" (Playwrights Horizons). The Callaway Award was first presented in 1989.The 2019-2020 Callaway Committee was chaired by Pamela Berlin and included Shelley Butler, Nelson  Eusebio, Richard Hamburger, Devanand Janki, Darren Lee, Mary Robinson, Amy Saltz, Michele Shay, Maria Torres, and Christopher Windom. Press contact: Danni Barlow/SDCF (646/524-2226)...