Lucy Jordan Award

The 2008 Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award recipient is Seattle-based actor Christopher Comte. The award will be presented in Seattle at the next membership meeting in 2009.

The Western Regional Stage Managers Committee, on behalf of Actors' Equity Association's Western Regional Board, is delighted to announce this year's Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award recipient, Rick Starr. The award was presented at the beginning of the Equity General Membership held on Friday, October 7, 2007 at the Los Angeles Equity office.

Don Toner, Managing Artistic Director/ Producer of the Austin Playhouse, received this year's Lucy Jordan Award at the fall Equity membership meeting in Los Angeles on October 6, 2006. The award is given annually by the Western Regional Stage Managers Committee to recognize an individual in the Western Region who has best exemplified the spirit of Lucy Jordan, recognizing "an extraordinary and exemplary commitment" to the theatre community and the membership of Actors' Equity.

Dirk van Allen, an accomplished actor and tireless theatre advocate, has been named the recipient of Actors’ Equity’s prestigious 2005 Lucy Jordan Award. Mr. van Allen received the award at the Equity membership meeting in Los Angeles on October 7, 2005.

The Western Stage Managers Committee presented this year's Lucy Jordan Recognition Award to Gordon Davidson, Artistic Director and Producer of Center Theatre Group, which includes the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the new Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles.

Actors' Equity Association is pleased to announce the presentation of the Lucy Jordan Recognition Award for 2003 to Equity Councillor Joseph Ruskin.

The award is given annually by the Western Regional Stage Managers Committee to recognize any individual from the Western Region who has best exemplified the spirit of Lucy Jordan during the previous year. Recipients of the award have demonstrated that they have gone above and beyond the call of duty in their relationship to the membership of Actors' Equity.

• 2001 - Dr. Barry A. Kohn, Director & Physician of The Actors Fund Free Clinic
• 2000 - Shawn Newmann, Western Regional Board Secretary
• 1999 - Gary Marthaler, member of the Wardrobe Union
• 1998 - Frank M. Young, Founder, President and CEO of Theatre Under The Stars and Executive Director of 5th Avenue Musical Theatre
• 1997 - John Cauble, Signatory for Guest Artist for Universities
• 1996 - Patricia MacDonald, House Manager of the Doolittle Theatre
• 1995 - Tom Rolla, Gardenia Night Club
• 1994 - Keith Stava, San Bernardino Civic Light Opera
• 1993 - Howard Caine, Actor
• 1992 - Iggie Wolfington, Actor & Equity Councillor Emeritus