<p>Playwright Edward Albee named first recipient of Princeton/McCarter fellowship
by Ruth Stevens · Posted April 6, 2006; 12:15 p.m.</p>
<p>"Award-winning playwright Edward Albee has been named the first recipient of the Princeton University/McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship.</p>
<p>The new theatrical initiative, funded by the Ford Foundation, will bring Albee to campus for several months beginning in fall 2007. While in residence, he will create a major new work that will be produced by McCarter. He also will teach in Princeton's Program in Theater and Dance.</p>
<p>"This fellowship program is a natural extension of the growing reciprocity between McCarter and Princeton and a model of how a professional theater and a university can work to mutual advantage," said Michael Cadden, director of the Program in Theater and Dance. "At a time when Princeton is committing to becoming a national leader in arts education, we're lucky to have Ford's encouragement to bring together the extraordinary resources of both organizations. Our students look forward to their dialogue with one of the most provocative minds in world theater."</p>
<p>Acclaimed by critics as "America's most important dramatist still writing," Albee first gained national attention in 1959 with his production of "The Zoo Story." He has won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for "A Delicate Balance," "Seascape" (currently playing on Broadway) and "Three Tall Women." He also has earned a Tony Award for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "A Delicate Balance" (revival) and "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" He has been honored for his body of achievement with a gold medal from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Kennedy Center Honor and a National Medal of Arts."</p>