{"id":1900,"date":"2016-02-03T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:21:57","slug":"2016-vilcek-prizes-in-biomedical-science-and-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/2016-vilcek-prizes-in-biomedical-science-and-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Vilcek Prizes in Biomedical Science and Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Immigrant Theatre Artists Lauded With 2016 Vilcek Prizes<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Blanka Zizka, Sarah Benson, Desdemona Chiang, and Yi Zhao are this year\u2019s honorees.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>BY AMERICAN THEATRE EDITORS<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK CITY: The Vilcek Foundation has announced the winners of the annual Vilcek Prizes, which recognize immigrant contributions to the American arts and sciences. Each year the prizes focus on a different artistic discipline, and this year\u2019s recipients were selected from the field of theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Blanka Zizka, the founding artistic director of the Wilma Theater, is the recipient of the 2016 Vilcek Prize in theatre, and will receive $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the 2016 Vilcek Prize for creative promise in theatre, for immigrant artists 38 years of age or younger, has been awarded to three artists: director Desdemona Chiang, lighting designer Yi Zhao, and Sarah Benson, artistic director of Soho Repertory Theatre. They will each receive $50,000. The winners will be honored at a ceremony in New York City in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheatre is extraordinary in its ability to challenge the status quo,\u201d said Marica Vilcek, vice president of the Vilcek Foundation, in a statement. \u201cWith the Vilcek Prizes in theatre, we recognize a bold group of immigrant artists whose vision is as original as it is unflinching.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrant Theatre Artists Lauded With 2016 Vilcek Prizes. Blanka Zizka, Sarah Benson, Desdemona Chiang, and Yi Zhao are this year\u2019s honorees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-vilcek-awards","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}