Eleventh Annual Fred Ebb Award Winners: Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer
Eleventh Annual Fred Ebb Award Winners: Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer
Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer receive the Eleventh Annual Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting
The Fred Ebb Foundation (Mitchell Bernard, Trustee) in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) also presents an annual award, named for Mr. Ebb, to aspiring musical theatre songwriters. The Fred Ebb Award recognizes excellence in musical theatre songwriting, by a songwriter or songwriting team that has not yet achieved significant commercial success. The award is meant to encourage and support aspiring songwriters to create new works for the musical theatre, and includes a $60,000 award. This year’s award was presented to Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer.
The Fred Ebb Foundation’s 11th Annual Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting presented to Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Penthouse Lounge at The American Airlines Theater in New York City on November 30, 2015. Photo by Henry McGee
Mitchell S. Bernard, nephew of Fred Ebb and Trustee of the Fred Ebb Foundation, 2015 recipients Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer, lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Karen Ziemba attend the Fred Ebb Foundation’s 11th Annual Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting presented to Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Penthouse Lounge at The American Airlines Theater in New York City on November 30, 2015. Photo by Henry McGee
John Kander and 2015 recipient Phillip Palmer attend the Fred Ebb Foundation’s 11th Annual Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting presented to Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Penthouse Lounge at The American Airlines Theater in New York City on November 30, 2015. Photo by Henry McGee
