Awards & Winners

Roger L. Stevens

Date of Birth 12-March-1910
Place of Birth Detroit
(Wayne County, Michigan, United States of America, Area code 313)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Roger Stevens, R. L. Stevens, Roger Lacey Stevens
Profession Theatrical producer, Arts Administrator, Businessperson
Roger Lacey Stevens was an American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and a real estate executive. He is the founding Chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Stevens was educated at The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut and at the University of Michigan. He produced more than 100 plays and musicals over his career, including West Side Story, Bus Stop, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1971, he received Special Tony Award for his body of work. Stevens was the General Administrator of the Actors Studio as well as one of the producers of the Playwrights Company, a member of the board of the American National Theatre and Academy, and one of the members of a Broadway producing company he founded in 1953 with Robert Whitehead, and Robert Dowling. In 1961, he was asked by President John F. Kennedy to help establish a Natural Cultural Center, and became Chairman of Board of Trustees of what was eventually named the Kennedy Center from 1961 to 1988. In 1965, he received an appointment from President Lyndon Johnson as first Chairman of the National Council on the Arts later named the National Endowment for the Arts.

Awards by Roger L. Stevens

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roger L. Stevens.

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Broken Glass
Tony Award for Best Play The Kentucky Cycle
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play The Kentucky Cycle

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Shadowlands

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play The Cocktail Hour
Outstanding New Play

1984


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival
Honored for : Death of a Salesman
Tony Award for Best Revival
Honored for : Death of a Salesman

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Revival Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival Death of a Salesman

1983


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival
Honored for : On Your Toes
Tony Award for Best Revival
Honored for : On Your Toes

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Revival On Your Toes
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival On Your Toes

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Bedroom Farce

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Deathtrap

1977


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American)
Honored for : A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American)
Honored for : A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American)
Honored for : A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American) A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American) A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (Foreign) No Man's Land
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American) A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate

1976


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival
Honored for : The Royal Family

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival The Royal Family

1975


Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
Honored for : London Assurance

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience London Assurance

1972


Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Old Times

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Indians

1962


Tony Award for Best Play
Honored for : A Man for All Seasons

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play A Man for All Seasons
Tony Award for Best Play The Caretaker

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Bus Stop