2025 Collaboration Awards: Women Working with Women

The 2025 Collaboration Awards, presented by the WAM Coalition for the first time since the pandemic, encourages professional women from different fields of artistic specialization to work collaboratively on the creation of new and impactful work in the arts and media.

At this year's event, The 7th Collaboration Award will be given to playwright Lynda Crawford, representing Coalition Members Dramatists Guild & League of Professional Theatre Women, and Kat Files, representing Coalition Members Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, for their play, Dusk!

Additional honorees include:
1st Runners Up:
OBSERVANT (Pamela Weiler Grayson, DG and Arielle Flax, Individual Member)
BLOOD OF THE LAMB (Arlene Hutton, DG LPTW AEA & SAG-AFTRA and Dana Brooke AEA & SAG-AFTRA)

Honored Finalists:
LIGHTHOUSE (abs wilson, DG & Veronica Mansour, DG)
THE SONG POET OPERA (Kao Kalia Yang, WGA and Jocelyn Hagen, WIM)
ZOE COMES HOME (Melissa Bell, DG and Laurie A. Guzda, SAG-AFTRA)

Finalists:
FIVE DEGREES OF POLARIS (Karen Howes, DG and Maggie Marion, SAG-AFTRA)
BEDROOM POP (Abby Rooney, DG and Bibiana Torres, SDC)
THE BEST PARTY EVER (Sharon Baker, DG and Carol Antman, Individual Member)
THE GHOST (Allyson Morgan, AEA & SAG-AFTRA and Tara Sheffer, NYWIFT)

Host and Student Award winners to be announced.

Light bites and refreshments will be served.

This event is completely accessible. (If an ASL interpreter is needed, please advise a week in advance.)

Sponsorships

Golden Collaborator - $500 - 2 prime reserved seats for the event - champagne toast before the event with all the honorees - full page in the program (for congratulations or business)

Silver Collaborator - $250 - 1 prime reserved seat for the event - champagne toast before the event with all the honorees - half page in the program (for congratulations or business)

Bronze Collaborator - $100 prime reserved seat for the event - mention in the program

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