The Connecticut Commission on the Arts has recognized three Yale affiliates for their contributions to the arts in the state.
Faculty member Donald Margulies, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who teaches playwriting and screenwriting, has been named one of five recipients of the 2003 Governor's Arts Awards in recognition of "remarkable artistic achievement and contributions to the arts."
Staff members Terry Dagradi and Lorraine F. Roseman, who co-founded the Yale Physicians Building Art Place, are among 19 individuals across the state to receive Distinguished Advocates Awards. Dagradi is an image specialist for Information Technology Services-Medical Media Services at the School of Medicine, and Roseman is director of operations for the Yale Physicians Building and the Yale Medical Group.
Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland presented Margulies and the other winners the Governors Arts Award on June 17 at the Shubert Theater.
The other recipients of the award are the New Britain-based choral group CONCORA, the Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theatre of West Cornwall, fiber artist Ed Johnetta Miller of Hartford, and actor James Naughton of Weston.
"Connecticut's artistic venues and exhibits are magnets for activity and a source of deep pride in our communities," said Rowland in announcing this year's award winners. "Artists and their art have made enormous contributions to the unique quality of life in our state, by bringing a rich cultural vitality to cities and towns across Connecticut."
The Governors Arts Award is one of numerous honors Margulies has earned for his work. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Dinner with Friends," which also won the Outer Critics' Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award. "Dinner with Friends" has since been made into a movie for HBO.
Margulies' other plays include "God of Vengeance" (based on Sholem Asch's 1906 Yiddish classic); "Collected Stories" (which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won several prestigious theater awards); and the Obie Award-winning "Sight Unseen" and "The Model Apartment." "Two Days," which incorporates his play "July 7, 1994" and a new one-act play called "Last Tuesday," recently completed a run at the Long Wharf Theatre.
Margulies and the other winners will receive a copy of a commemorative poster by New Haven graphic artist Brad Collins. It features a montage of images representing past Governors Arts Awards recipients, who include Yale musician Willie Ruff, former Yale School of Architecture dean Cesar Pelli, the dance company Pilobolus, children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, operatic vocalist Marian Anderson, visual artist Helen Frankenthaler, the Wadsworth Atheneum and the National Theater of the Deaf.
Dagradi, Roseman and the other winners of the Distinguished Advocates Awards were nominated by members of the public and arts and cultural organizations throughout the state.
The two women co-founded the Yale Physicians Building Art Place program in 2000. The ongoing art exhibition opened in the spring of that year, and presents new works by local artists from the Yale and New Haven communities every six months.
Roseman oversees the management and operations of Art Place, while Dagradi directs the selection of art works and their presentation throughout the Yale Physicians Building. The two women have been lauded by patients and their family members for helping to create a warm and friendly environment in the building and for their understanding of the ability of the arts to heal, restore and bring comfort.
"With [the Distinguished Advocates Awards], the Commission on the Arts recognizes the remarkable work performed by volunteers in communities across Connecticut to increase public support for and participation in the arts," said Douglas C. Evans, executive direction of the commission. "These individuals are really the foundation upon which many of our successful cultural organizations are built, and their dedication and support is invaluable."
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