Paul Robeson Award


 

Latest Recipients:

We are pleased to announce honorees for 2021-2023. Although delayed by the pandemic, it is important to recognize the outstanding work done by theater artists during this time.

Full details can be found in this press release.

Previous recipients of the Paul Robeson Award include: Paul Robeson; Maya Angelou; Harry Belafonte; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; James Earl Jones; Athol Fugard; Lena Horne; Joseph Papp; Sidney Poitier; Pete Seeger; and, in 2014, Baayork Lee.

 

Past Recipients: 1989-Present

Year Recipient
2023 The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City
2022 Pearl Cleage
2021 Dale Ricardo Shields
2019-20 Carmen Morgan and Futaba Shioda
2018 Independent Shakespeare Co.
2017 Jamal Joseph
2016 Mary-Mitchell Campbell
2015 Arthur French
2014 Baayork Lee
2013 Shauneille Perry
2012 William Greaves
2011 James Earl Jones
2010 Charles Randolph-Wright
2009 Micki Grant
2008 Sidney Poitier
2007 Mercedes Ellington
2006 Bill Cosby- Rescinded
2005 Carl Harms
2004 Judith Jamison
2003 Woodie King, Jr.
2002 Gertrude Jeanette
2001 Brock Peters
2000 Rosa LeNoire
1999 Loften Mitchell
1998 Leonard Etienne de Paul
1997 Athol Fugard
1996 George C. Wolfe
1995 Gil Noble
1994 Lloyd Richards
1993 Katherine Dunham
1992 Art D'Lugoff
1991 Gordon Parks
1990 Maya Angelou
1989 Bill Ross & Dr. Margaret Burroughs
1988 Jacques D'Amboise
1987 Joe Papp
1986 Vinie Burrows
1985 Arthur Mitchell
1984 Lena Horne
1983 John Henry Faulk
1982 Ed Asner
1981 Studs Terkel
1980 Alice Childress
1979 Harry Bellafonte
1978 Sam Jaffe
1977 Pete Seeger
1976 Lillian Hellman
1975 Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee
1974 Paul Robeson