2021

Dominique Morisseau
(Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, ​Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18, and a recent MacArthur ​Genius Grant Fellow)

2019

Gavin Creel
(Tony-Award winner: Hello Dolly, Star of Broadway's Book of Mormon,
​Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie and more)

2018

Jessica Hecht
(Star of Broadway's The Price, Fiddler on the Roof and more.
Television's Friends, Breaking Bad)

2017

Terrence McNally
(Four-Time Tony Award Winning Playwright)
​&
Tom Kirdahy
(Five-Time Tony Nominated Producer)

2016

Jeanine Tesori
(Multiple Tony-award winning ​Broadway Composer)

2015

Anna Deveare Smith 
(Actress, playwright, activist)

2014

Sheryl Kaller
(Tony nominated Broadway Director)
​&
Tom Kirdahy
(Multiple Tony-award winning ​Broadway Producer)

2013

Joe Norton
(Past Director of Education and Outreach Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS)