WAM Coalition: WAM COALITION 2025 Collaboration Award Honorees Announcement!

WAM (Women In The Arts & Media) Coalition Announces 2025 Collaboration Award Honorees

DUSK!

by Lynda Crawford (playwright)

and Kat Files (choreographer) receives top honors.

Gala ceremony to be held this fall in New York City.

The Women in the Arts & Media Coalition has announced the winners and finalists of its prestigious Collaboration Award: Women Working With Women, which honors outstanding partnerships between professional women from different specializations across the arts and media industries.

The biennial award celebrates excellence in collaborative creation and encourages new interdisciplinary work led by women artists. The selected projects span theater, film, music, and more, demonstrating the breadth of female creativity and partnership in today’s artistic landscape.

The gala celebrating the awards will be coming up this fall, and will also include a Student Collaboration Award, which has not yet been adjudicated.

Here is the list of honorees and their organizations:

Collaboration Award Winner:

DUSK! (Lynda Crawford, DG & LPTW) and Kat Files (AEA & SAG-AFTRA)

1st Runners Up:

OBSERVANT (Pamela Grayson, DG and Arielle Flax, Individual Member)

BLOOD OF THE LAMB (Arlene Hutton, DG LPTW AEA & SAG-AFTRA and

Dana Brooke AEA & SAG-AFTRA)

Honored Finalists:

LIGHTHOUSE (abs wilson, DG & Veronica Mansour, DG)

THE SONG POET OPERA (Kao Kalia Yang, WGA and Jocelyn Hagen, WIM)

ZOE COMES HOME (Melissa Bell, DG and Laurie A. Guzda, SAG-AFTRA)

Finalists:

FIVE DEGREES OF POLARIS (Karen Howes, DG and Maggie Marion, SAG-AFTRA)

BEDROOM POP (Abby Rooney, DG and Bibiana Torres, SDC)

THE BEST PARTY EVER (Sharon Baker, DG and Carol Antman, Individual Member)

THE GHOST (Allyson Morgan, AEA & SAG-AFTRA and Tara Sheffer NYWIFT)

Avis Boone, Yvonne Curry, & Shellen Lubin

Co-Presidents

Pictures from the 2019 Collaboration Awards.

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS

Whether or Not You are an Organizational Member,

You Are Now Able to Join the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition!

With our new Individual Memberships, you no longer need to be a member through your organizational affiliation. For artists and media professionals who are not currently affiliated with one of our member organizations, this is a way to join our community. For artists and media professionals who are affiliated with one of our full member organizations, this is a way to receive additional perks and support the Coalition.

As an individual member, you will be able to:

Attend all events, in person and virtual (with coalition discount if paid event);
Receive all newsletters, including the NEW WAMCollaboration Newsletter;
Access to our NEW WAMCollaboration Google Group (connecting artists for collaborative opportunities);
Be included in our NEW online Directory of Members and their disciplines, with links to social media (with or without contact information as preferred);
Serve on committees;
Receive perks and discounts;
Submit your events (if free or discounted to Coalition members) to be posted and shared in our Newsletters, Blog, and/or Communal Calendar;
Submit to all of our prizes and contests for FREE.

Individual Memberships are only $25 per year.

($15 per year DONATION REQUESTED for members of our full member organization to cover the administrative costs of registering you.)

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP FORM

Student Memberships

With our new Individual Student Memberships, you can join the Women in the Arts and Media Coalition for ONLY $10 PER YEAR. To be eligible for a student membership, one must be actively studying their discipline, and not yet a practicing professional. You do not need to be matriculated in a graduate, undergraduate, or professional full-time program.

Student members will have their own directory and their own Google Group. There is also a separate Student Collaboration Award to which student members can submit.

STUDENT MEMBERSHIP FORM