Justine Lambert & Looking Glass Theatre Win Lortel Award

The Looking Glass Theatre is proud to announce Founder and Artistic Director Justine Lambert has been named the recipient of The Lucille Lortel Award from The League of Professional Theatre Women. Ms. Lambert received the honor at an awards luncheon held Thursday, June 15 at Trattoria Dopo Teatro.

The Lucille Lortel Award, established with an endowment given by Lucille Lortel, carries a $2,500 award to an aspiring woman in any discipline of theatre who shows great creative promise and deserves recognition and encouragement for her efforts. The work of The Looking Glass Theatre and Artistic Director Justine Lambert captured the attention of the Lucille Lortel Committee of the League, who were unanimous in their vote.

Ms. Lambert is Founder and Artistic Director of The Looking Glass Theatre in New York, established in 1993. She has been working in theater in New York for 22 years during which she has directed and produced dozens of shows, ranging from classical to contemporary, original to experimental.

Ms. Lambert's direction of The Three Sisters at The Looking Glass Theatre won an Off Off Broadway Review award for best production, and her Direction of "M" at the Turnip Theatre's play festival won her honorable mention as Best Director. New York Resident named Artistic Director Justine Lambert one of the Top 100 New Yorkers of 2003 for her work with the company. Her work encompasses director, producer, actress, and playwright. She also teaches multi-technique acting classes at The Looking Glass. From 1989 through 1991 she was the Co-Artistic director of Peregrine Theater a company that produced classics and children's work in Central Park.

Past recipients of The Lucille Lortel Award include Melanie Joseph, founder of the Foundry Theatre; Cara Reichel, founder of the Prospect Theatre Company; and Mandy Hackett, founder of The Underwood Theater.

About LPTW...

The League of Professional Theatre Women is a not-for-profit advocacy organization promoting visibility and increasing opportunities for women in the professional theatre. The League provides a number of programs and services for its members as well as the theatre community. The League links professional theatre women nationally and inter-nationally, providing an ongoing forum for ideas and issues of concern to the theatrical community and its audiences. The League is also a member of the New York Women's Agenda and the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media.

About The Looking Glass Theatre...

The Looking Glass Theatre's mission is to explore and expand the feminine aesthetic, producing works by historic female playwrights, new works by women, and productions of the classics re-imagined by contemporary women directors.

Photo--Justine Lambert (left) with LPTW co-presidents Joan Firestone (middle) and Harriet Slaugter.