Clarence Derwent Awards

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The Clarence Derwent Awards are a theater award. They are annually in the US on Broadway by the Actors' Equity Association (AEA) and in the UK by the performers union Equity in West End awarded.

Clarence Derwent was born in London. He was a theater director and entrepreneur. From 1946 to 1952 he was President of America's Actors' Equity.

In his will he wrote out two prizes for promising actors to promote individual achievements. The pay was initially $ 500 on Broadway for the best male and female actors and £ 100 for the West End theater. He wanted to see how these prizes were awarded, so the first US prize was awarded in 1945 and the first UK prize in 1948. Derwent died in 1959.

The price for the US in the 2000s includes $ 2,000 and an engraved crystal cup.

US winners

Most promising actor on Broadway

Logan Ramsey as Willie Pentridge in High Ground
Tom Ahearne as Major in Hogan's Goat (special citation)
Philip Bosco as a representative in The Alchemist
James McDaniel as Paul Portier in Six Degrees of Separation

Most Promising Actress On Broadway

UK winner

Most promising actor in West End

Most Promising Actress in West End

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Young Actors Rush In , actorsequity.org, accessed May 13, 2009
  2. ↑ Andriw Gans ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , playbill.com, accessed May 12, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com
  3. ^ Margaret Hilton to Morgan Freeman win Derwents , in: Ney York Times (May 31, 1978)