You are invited to celebrate the winners and finalists of the

2025 Collaboration Awards:

Women Working with Women

Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Fred and Adele Astaire Ballroom
at Houghton Hall Arts Community
22 East 30th Street, NY, NY

Hosted by SIbYl Reymundo-Santiago

RecEIVING the Community Collaboration Award
for her work as Executive Director and Head of Programming for the Soho International Film Festival

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!

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)

Student Winners:

THE NOWHERE WOMEN (Bella Panico and Isabelle De Oliveira Makiyama Lopes)

from Marymount Manhattan College

Beatriz Coelho de Soarez and Destinee-Jolene Marcion

from School of Visual Arts BFA Film Department

for perpetually being the collaborative glue that makes a project and a community cohere

$500 Golden Collaborator - 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)

$250 Silver Collaborator - 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)

$100 Bronze Collaborator - 1 prime reserved seat for the event - mention in the program

Contact info@womanartsmediacoalition.org for more details

$25 Member Ticket (for both individual and organizational members) - must be purchased before the day of the event
$50 Non-Member Ticket and all tickets the day of the event

https://wamcollabs2025.eventbrite.com

Light bites and refreshments will be served.

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

Quotes from honorees:

Quotes from past winners:

“We are so excited and deeply honored to be celebrated in the first ever ACCLAIMED COLLABORATION AWARD! Collaborating with the extraordinary women on this project has been a joy, and we hope we inspire others to choose female collaborations!"

-     Alysia Reiner, 2019 Winner

“We’re thrilled for the opportunity to continue to work together through Women in the Arts & Media Coalitions’ Collaboration Award! We’ve been eager for a way to continue our collaboration since we workshopped Preservation for its first reading at the William Inge Center for the Arts. The award came as a wonderful surprise and will be pivotal in furthering the life of this new play.”

-     Deborah Yarchun and Jess Chayes, 2019 Winners

"The Award offers much-needed encouragement during this time of virulent anti-feminist, anti-arts, anti-culture rhetoric, --rhetoric and policy that have very real economic consequences for women trying to sustain a career in the theatre. As someone being told my work is 'too feminist' to be produced now, I depend on organizations like this one to keep me from losing heart."

-     TD Mitchell playwright 2015 winner

“We are so honored to be accepting this award. One of the best aspects of making this very unconventional film was working together. We got it done using our creativity, mutual respect for one another, quality Skype-time with our families back home, plain old hard work, and as much good humor as we could muster. It means the world to us to have our film embraced by an organization that celebrates women in collaboration.”

-       Jane Edith Wilson and Grace Lee, 2013 Winners

“It was and honor for Stefanie and I to receive the Collaboration Award.  It came at a critical moment for the DEVELOPMENT of Electric Baby as the award supported our work together on two DEVELOPMENTAL workshops and our world premiere production of the play at Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh.  Not only did this award support our work financially it gave our collaboration recognition in the field.  Stefanie continues to be a key collaborator of mine on subsequent projects and having our relationship recognized publicly is invaluable.”

-       Daniella Topol, Director, 2011 Winner

“New work needs momentum.  It’s simply not a reality that a play can be written in the attic and then magically find a production.  Or that one production will lead to a second or third production.  People need to hear about work.  They need to hear about the artists who make the work.  There is no question that this award not only helped The Electric Baby become a better play, but it gave the baby a life.”

-       Stefanie Zadravec, Playwright, 2011 Winner

“The Collaboration Award’s encouragement of women working together is terrific.  It made all the difference in providing my collaborator and I with the time and support we needed to create a complex and dynamic theatre work.”

-       Kristin Marting, Director, 2008 Winner

“The evening of the Collaboration Awards was imbued with theatrical magic.  Wendy directed an excerpt from my play, Birds, that captured the spirit of the play with great response from a wildly supportive audience.  Birds is the third play of mine that we worked on together. It was a beautiful jumping off point for us in our process.  It provided the opportunity for us to mine even deeper in our exploration of the world of this complicated play, and the support, enthusiasm and appreciation of this body of amazing women helped carry us through to the next step of our artistic journey.”

-      Jen Maisel, Playwright, 2006 Winner

Contact:        

press@womenartsmediacoalition.org