
On December 8th at the The Strand’s Rare Books Room the Vineyard Theater celebrated three new upcoming artists and presented the annual 2025-2026 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and Colman Domingo Award and the 2025-2027 Susan Stroman Directing Award. These awards recognize early-career artists of exceptional promise and provide them with time, space, and resources to create new work and strike new collaborations.
This year’s honorees are Ro Reddick, recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Keenan Tyler Oliphant, recipient of the Susan Stroman Direction Award, and Ato Blankson-Wood, recipient of the Colman Domingo Award.





