2020s
2010s
- Dr. Marjorie Garber, February 2019
- Dr. Joseph Roach, October 2017
- Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen 2015
- David Henry Hwang, October 2014
- Harriet Newman Leve, March 2014
- Eve Ensler, 2013
- Larry Kramer, 2012
- Carol Burnett, 2011
- Phillip Zarrilli, 2011
- Martin Sheen, 2010
2000s
- Stephen Sondheim and Scott Simon, 2009
- Suzan-Lori Parks, 2008
- Simon Callow, 2006
- George C. Wolfe, 2005
- Don Wilmeth, 2004
- Robert Benedetti, 2002
- Marcel Marceau, 2001
- Desmond Heeley, 2000
1990s
- Brian Bedford, 1999
- Patrice Pavis, 1998
- Peter Sellars, 1997
- Gloria Muzio, 1996
- Ann Bogart, 1995
- Lee Blessing, 1994
- Charles Kimbrough, 1993
- Oscar G. Brockett, 1992
- Robert Lewis, 1991
- Alla Mikhailova and Vladimir Arifiev, 1990
1980s
- Michael Weller, 1989
- Errol Hill, 1988
- Jon Jory, 1987
- William Gibson, 1985
- Mel Gussow, 1984
- Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983
- Michael Goldman, 1982
- C. Walter Hodges, 1981
- Alan Schneider, 1980
1970s
- Bernard Dukore, 1979
- Howard Bay, 1978
- Herbert Blau, 1977
- Lanford Wilson, 1976
- Ed Bullins, 1975
- Zelda Fichandler, 1974
- Ruby Cohn, 1973
- Martin Esslin, 1972
- Wynn Handman, 1971
- Ellen Stewart, 1970
1960s
- Martin Meisel, 1969
- Harold Clurman, 1968
- Maynard Mack, 1967
- Norris Houghton, 1966
- Joseph Papp, 1965
- Robert Brustein, 1964
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