Paulette Haupt, founding artistic director of the Eugene
O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference in Waterford, will
be honored with the Connecticut Critics Circle’s Tom Killen Award, given in
recognition of her 40 years of extraordinary achievement and service to
Connecticut theater.
Haupt will be presented with the award on June 26 at the
27th annual event celebrating the state’s outstanding professional theater,
which will be held at the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred
Heart University in Fairfield. The event, scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm, is
free and open to the public. Three-time Tony Award-nominee Terrence Mann will
be master of ceremonies
Previous winners of the Killen Award include Lloyd Richards, Michael Price,
Gordon Edelstein, Michael Wilson, Lucille Lortel, and Carmen de Lavallade. Last
year’s winner was Anne Keefe.
Since 1978, Haupt has served as artistic director of the
National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. In that capacity, she has
selected and guided the development of more than 120 new musicals including Nine, Avenue Q, Violet, The Wild Party, In
The Heights, and Darling Grenadine, which
will be performed at Goodspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre in Chester later
this summer.
An
associate producer for Polly Pen’s Goblin
Market Off Broadway, Haupt has commissioned, developed, and produced new
works for OPERA America, the National Alliance for Musical Theater, and
Columbia Artists Management.
Following
her San Francisco Opera debut in Carmen,
for more than three decades Haupt was a music director and conductor of
numerous operas and musicals in the US and abroad. As a
pianist, Haupt has appeared worldwide in concerts with renowned musical theater
and opera singers and was the only ‘Plaidette’ ever to perform in Stuart Ross’s
Forever Plaid in New York.
Since
2001, Haupt has commissioned, developed, and produced new works with her New
York Company Premieres, including several works by Richard Rodgers Award
recipients and a workshop of Lauren Robert’s .22 Caliber Mouth (New Millennium Theater Company, Chicago, 2004). She
continues to develop Premieres and its very successful “Inner Voices” series.
Nominees for 2016-17 Connecticut Critics Circle Awards will
be made public in early June. Winners in each category will be announced at the
awards ceremony and will be posted on this site.
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