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Series X: Grants, Fellowships and Awards

Scope and Contents note

Series X: Grants, Fellowships, and Awards, includes materials documenting grant and awards given to Richard Foreman and the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre as well as materials documenting benefits for the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Items range from photographs, newspaper press, newsletters and award certificates to grant applications and correspondence. Subseries A: Award Certificates and Photographs, include plaques, certificates and degrees awarded to Richard Foreman. Subseries B: Press, includes press documentation of Richard Foreman's reception of these awards. Subseries C: Application and Nomination materials, documents the application process for several grants. Subseries D: Benefits for the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, includes fundraising events for the OH Theater.

Subseries A: Award certificates and photographs

Show Business Award from the Entertainment Editors, LEo Schull and Staff., 1977

Box: 39, Folder: 1954 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Kudos" plaque to Richard Foreman, Director., 1981

Box: 39, Folder: 1955 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Village Theater Awards, "Egyptology", 1983

Box: 39, Folder: 1956 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Color photograph of Richard Foreman with John E. [illegible], incribed "Richard-An award richly deserved. Congratulations", 1990

Box: 39, Folder: 1957 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 1992

Box: 39, Folder: 1958 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Honorary degree from Brown University., 1993

Box: 39, Folder: 1960 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Edwin Boorth Award, given by the students of the Ph.D. program in Theatre of the Graduate School and Unieversity Center of the City University of New York., 1997

Box: 39, Folder: 1961 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Village Voice OBIE, Best Play "Pearls for Pigs" and "Benita Canova", 1997-1998

Box: 39, Folder: 1962 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

PEN Award, Master American Dramatist., 2001

Box: 39, Folder: 1963 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Henry Hewes Award for Noteworthy Effects in "Panic!", 2003

Box: 39, Folder: 1965 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries B: Press

SoHo Weekly News, Theater Ten Best Lists. Includes "Pandering to the Masses", "Rhoda in Potatoland" and "Hotel for Criminals", 1976

Box: 39, Folder: 1966 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

OBIE press, 1976

Box: 39, Folder: 1967 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

OBIE press, 1987

Box: 39, Folder: 1968 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Academy of Arts and Letters press, 1992

Box: 39, Folder: 1970 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MacArthur grants press coverage, 1995

Box: 39, Folder: 1971 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

OBIE press, 1996

Box: 39, Folder: 1972 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen Literary Awards, press, 2001

Box: 39, Folder: 1973 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

France's Order of Arts and Letters, press, 2003

Box: 39, Folder: 1974 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries C: Application and nomination materials

CAPS grant application, 1976

Box: 39, Folder: 1975 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CAPS, returned manuscript galley proofs., 1976

Box: 39, Folder: 1976 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CAPS manuscript submission and response, 1976

Box: 39, Folder: 1977 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CAPS directory, Plays by fellowship recipients and semi-finalists., 1976-1978

Box: 39, Folder: 1978 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

NEA tentative recommendation memorandum., 1976

Box: 39, Folder: 1979 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photocopies of writing, labeled "Rockefeller Fellowship", undated

Box: 39, Folder: 1980 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries D: Benefits for the Ontological Hysteric Theater

Ontological-Hysteric Theater fundraising appeal featuring Philip Glass, Eric Bogosian, David Salle., 1991

Box: 39, Folder: 1983 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ontological Hysteric Theater fundraising, letter with contribution., 1992

Box: 39, Folder: 1984 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ontological-Hysteric Theater fundraising campaign. "The Mind King", undated

Box: 39, Folder: 1986 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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