Program directors Linda Chapman and Joan D. Firestone are delighted to announce a deeply meaningful collaboration with the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute at Lehman College at 250 Bedford Park Blvd W, Bronx, NY (José Higuera-López, PhD, Director), where the GCITA Ceremony will take place on October 10th, 2023. The Ceremony honors the current Awardee, Petrona de la Cruz, and celebrates the artistic excellence of her 17 colleagues from across the globe, giving special recognition to two-time finalist Maya Zbib from Lebanon.
Initiated in 2011, the triennial Gilde/Coigney International Theatre Award Program has grown exponentially to embrace ongoing communication and collaboration with our international theatre colleagues. Following the 2020 Program, Melody Brooks folded “Theatre From the Streets” into her non-profit, New Perspectives Theatre Company, where it continues to flourish and has inspired the theme for the 2023 GCITA Program.