DuBois and Jones are '06 Callaway Award-Winners

Director Peter Dubois/> (Measure for Pleasure) and Choreographer Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening) are the winners of the 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers FoundationCallaway Awards for "Excellence in the craft of Direction and Choreography."

DuBois is an associate producer at the Public Theater/NYSF, where his directing credits include Measure for Pleasure (Drama League nomination for Best Production of a New Play), Richard III (Top 10 New York productions of 2004, Newsday), Biro (New York Times Critics Pick).  DuBois was previously the artistic director of Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Other regional credits include Trinity Rep and California Shakespeare Theater. Peter is a two-time recipient of Rockefeller MAP grants. Prior to his work at Perseverance, DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic, where he directed professionally and co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theater.  Upcoming projects include Jack Goes Boating by Bob Glaudini for LAByrinth featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman/>, Daphne Ruben Vega and John Ortiz/>.

Bill T. Jones, Co-Founder and Artistic Director/Choreographer of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company makes his Broadway debut with the Atlantic Theater Company's Spring Awakening.  He is the recipient of the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award, and the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Other awards include the 1994 MacArthur Genius Award plus several New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Awards. In 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones/>  "An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure." He has also received honorary doctorates from the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, Columbia College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College, and the SUNY Binghamton Distinguished Alumni Award.

The Callaway Award Winners were chosen from seven stellar finalists for 2006 – five directors and two choreographers – culled from hundreds of eligible artists:
 
Directors:

Peter Dubois/>, Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theater)
Mark Lamos/>, Indian Blood, (Primary Stages)
Michael Mayer/>, Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater Company)
Wilson Milam/>, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Atlantic Theater Company)
Dan Sullivan, Stuff Happens (The Public Theater)
                        

Previous Callaway Award winners include Joe Mantello/>, Graciela Daniele, George C. Wolfe/>, Susan Stroman/>, Scott Elliott/>, Frank Galati/>, Julie Taymor/>, Moisés Kaufman, Jack O'Brien/>, Gabriel Barre/>, Devanand Janki, Daniel Sullivan/>, Christopher Gattelli/> and Doug Hughes/>.
 
Each award consists of an elegant crystal memento plus a cash stipend provided from an endowment bequeathed by Mr. Joe A. Callaway.  The Callaway Awards were presented  immediately after the SSDC Annual Meeting on November 20^th, at the Abingdon Theatre, 312 W. 36^th St.

The 2005-2006 Callaway Committee comprised of SSDC director and choreographer members, was chaired by Linda Burson and included Melvin Bernhardt, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Hope Clarke/>, Edie Cowan, Susan Einhorn/>, John Going, Bick Goss, Gus Kaikkonen, Sue Lawless, Michael Montel, Tony Parise and Melanie Sutherland.

Photo Credits
1) Peter Dubois, photo by Kim Sharp
2) Bill T. Jones, photo by Joanne Savia