Emily wins the 2021 Dramatists Guild Stephen Schwartz Composer Award for Musical Theatre
From The Dramatists Guild:
“The Stephen Schwartz Award is given annually to a musical theatre writer whose voice is seen as critical to the continued success of the craft. Composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor Gardner Xu Hall won the 2019 American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Award and was the inaugural winner of the 2018 “Go Write a Musical” Lilly Award for Women in Theatre. Among Gardner Xu Hall's numerous credits are Untitled Cherry Orchard Musical, Cymbeline, Mei-Do, Nascent Phase, Nomad Motel with Carla Ching, and Ruth. She is currently developing Untitled Chongqing Musical with Tom Donaghy and working on a film project with Tony and Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”
From the Playbill article:
““I’m crying because I’ve been thinking about how hard it has been, in the pandemic, to keep writing and how hard it’s been for everyone dealing with every circumstance,” recipient Gardner Xu Hall said. “I am so, so grateful, and I feel so, so lucky.”
Dramatists Guild Foundation is a national charity that fuels the future of American theatre by supporting the writers who create it.”