Robert Brustein - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Robert Brustein has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including:

• c.1953: Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Nottingham, 1953-1955
• 1961: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• 1962, 1987: Twice winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism: in 1962 for his reviews in Commentary, Partisan Review, Harpers and New Republic; and in 1987 for Who Needs Theatre: Dramatic Opinions. Brustein is the only person to have received this award more than once.
• 1964: George Polk Award for Journalism (Criticism)
• 1984: the 2nd Elliot Norton Award For Professional Excellence in Boston Theatre, known at the time as the Norton Prize, presented by the Boston Theater District Association, and now given by StageSource: the Greater Boston Theatre Alliance
• 1985: New England Theatre Conference's Major Award for outstanding creative achievement in the American theatre
• 1995: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts
• 1999: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2000: Association for Theatre in Higher Education Career Achievement Award for Professional Theatre
• 2001: The Commonwealth Award for Organizational Leadership (Massachusetts' highest honor)
• 2002: Inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame
• 2003: United States Institute for Theatre Technology Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2003: National Corporate Theatre Fund Chairman's Award for Achievement in Theatre
• 2005: Gann Academy Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts
• 2008: Eugene O'Neill Foundation's Tao House Award for serving the American theatre with distinction
• 2010: National Medal of Arts
• 2011: Players Club Hall of Fame

In addition, Brustein received the Pirandello Medal, and a medal from the Egyptian government for contributions to world theatre. His papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.