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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE
ARTS
Honoring Shelia Nevins and Paul
Libin for Lifetime Achievement
Hugh Hayden for Excellence in
Creative Arts
Monday, March 25, 2024
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University
535 West 116th Street,
New York, N.Y.
On March 25, 2024 Columbia University
School of the Arts will honor three distinguished
individuals Sheila Nevins,
Paul Libin, and Hugh
Hayden.
Katharina Otto-Bernstein (Chair
of the School of the Arts Dean’s Council) and Barbara
Whitman (Event Chair) will host the evening with Sarah
Cole (Interim Dean).
The evening will
support the School’s mission to push the boundaries of
creative expression, contribute to society, and help to
shape a better world
Columbia University School of the Arts
awards the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film, Theatre,
Visual Arts and Writing and the Master of Arts degree in
Film and Media Studies.
It also offers an interdisciplinary program
in Sound Art and maintains a strong commitment to
undergraduate education in the arts by offering majors in
Creative Writing,
Film and Media Studies, and Visual Arts that
lead to the Bachelor of Arts, awarded by Columbia College
and the School of General Studies.
WHEN:
Monday, March 25, 2024
6:30
pm Cocktail Reception
7:30 pm Dinner / Entertainment
/ Awards
WHERE:
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University
535
West 116 Street, New York, New York
HONORING:
Paul Libin for
Lifetime Achievement
A Broadway industry leader, Libin
is renowned for his visionary and innovative contributions
spanning six decades as a prolific producer and theater
executive shaping the landscape of American theater. (Full
bio below)
Shelia Nevins for
Lifetime Achievement
Nevins is
Executive Producer for MTV Documentary Films and
former President of HBO Documentary Films and Family Programing.
She has earned numerous awards, leaving an indelible mark on
the cinematic landscape. (Full bio below)
Hugh Hayden for Excellence in the
Creative Arts
Hayden is a highly regarded
contemporary artist renowned for his thought-provoking
sculptures that explore themes of identity, culture and the
environment. (Full bio below)
CHAIRS:
Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Barbara
Whitman
CO-CHAIRS: Ramona
Bronkar Bannayan, Hal Luftig, Patricia Sovern
VICE CHAIRS: Fenton
Bailey, Randy Barbato, Joseph P. Benincasa, Sarah Bernstein,
Alex Gibney,
H. Hartley du Pont, Robert Wankel, Roger Ross Williams
For ticket
information contact Monica M. Marchese at (212) 854-7724
or soa-party@columbia.edu
ABOUT COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS – https://arts.columbia.edu/
Columbia University School of the
Arts awards the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film, Theatre,
Visual Arts, and Writing and the Master of Arts degree in
Film and Media Studies; it also offers an interdisciplinary
program in Sound Art and maintains a strong commitment to
undergraduate education in the arts by offering majors in
Creative Writing, Film and Media Studies, and Visual Arts
that lead to the Bachelor of Arts, awarded by Columbia
College and the School of General Studies.
The School is a thriving, diverse
community of talented, visionary, and committed artists from
around the world, plus faculty comprised of acclaimed and
internationally renowned artists, film and theatre
directors, writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction,
playwrights, producers, critics and scholars. The School
marked the 50th Anniversary of its founding
in 2015. In 2017, the School opened the Lenfest Center for
the Arts, a multi-arts venue designed as a hub for the
presentation and creation of art across disciplines on the
University’s new Manhattanville campus. The Lenfest hosts
exhibitions, performances, screenings, symposia, readings,
and lectures that present new global voices and
perspectives, as well as an exciting, publicly accessible
home for Columbia’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.
Paul Libin
Theater producer Paul Libin was
born in Chicago in 1930. From 1953-1955, he served in the
U.S. Army in Fort Hood, Texas, where he founded his first
theater and directed his first play, Sidney Kingsley’s Detective
Story. He attended the University of Illinois and
Columbia University, graduating from Columbia’s School of
Dramatic Arts in 1956 with the Gertrude Lawrence Award for
acting. Many years later, he returned to teach in the School
of the Arts Graduate Program.
Libin’s first job on Broadway was
as a production assistant to scenic designer Jo Mielziner.
Soon after, he found success as a stage manager and, later,
as a producer. In 1958, he produced his first show, an
Off-Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s The
Crucible at the Martinique Theater. He joined Theodore
Mann in running Circle in the Square in 1963, and they
produced together for 49 years.
As president of Circle in the
Square Theatre and Theatre School, Libin mounted more than
250 productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and on tour. He
is the recipient of the 2013 Tony Award for Lifetime
Achievement in the Theatre, eleven other Tony Awards as a
producer, the Eugene O’Neill Medallion, and the Eugene
O’Neill Foundation Tao House Award. He was invited into
Jujamcyn Theaters in 1990 by Rocco Landesman and continued
his work there until he retired as Jujamcyn’s Executive Vice
President and Producing Director in 2017. He served as
President of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for 24 years,
was a past Chairperson of The Broadway League, a 2016
inductee to the Theater Hall of Fame, and recipient of a
2023 Broadway League Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sheila Nevins
Sheila Nevins, who earned her BA from Barnard College and
her MFA from Yale University School of Drama in Directing,
is an Executive Producer for MTV Documentary Films. She is
the former president of HBO Documentary Films and Family
Programming, where she was responsible for overseeing the
development and production of more than 1500 programs.
Nevins has received 32 Primetime
Emmy® Awards, 35 News and Documentary Emmys® and
42 George Foster Peabody Awards. During her tenure, HBO’s
critically acclaimed documentaries won 26 Academy Awards® and
the series Cinemax Reel Life has featured a
number of award-winning documentaries, including Breathing
Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, an Oscar® winner
in 1997. In addition, Nevins has been honored with numerous
career achievement awards, including the 2018 Realscreen
Legacy Award and the 2017 DOC NYC Lifetime Achievement
Award. She is the recipient of the Governor’s Award from the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and is a NYU Tisch
School of the Arts Honoree. Other awards include: a Gotham
Awards Tribute; an Emmy® Lifetime
Achievement Award (the first time the National Television
Academy awarded a documentarian); a 1999 Personal Peabody
Award, Women in Film’s Lucy Award, and the National Board of
Review’s Humanitarian Award. Nevins was inducted into
Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame in 2000.
Nevins is a member of the Writers
Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America and The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is the New
York Times bestselling author of You Don’t Look
Your Age…and Other Fairy Tales, published in 2017 by
Flatiron Books.
Hugh Hayden
Hugh Hayden’s practice considers the anthropomorphization of
the natural world as a visceral lens for exploring the human
condition. Hayden transforms familiar objects through a
process of selection, carving, and juxtaposing to challenge
our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the environment.
Raised in Texas and trained as an architect, his work arises
from a deep connection to nature and its organic materials.
Hayden utilizes wood as his primary medium, including
objects as varied as discarded trunks, rare indigenous
timbers, Christmas trees, or souvenir African sculptures.
Hayden has exhibited throughout the United
States and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include
public art installations at the de Cordova Sculpture Park
and Museum in Lincoln, MA (2023); Madison Square Park
Conservancy in New York, NY; North Carolina Museum of Art in
Raleigh, NC; and Dumbarton Oaks Gardens in Washington, DC.
He is the recipient of many residencies and holds positions
on advisory councils at Columbia University School of the
Arts, Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and
Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning. His work
is part of public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
Los Angeles, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY;
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL, de Cordova
Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Princeton University Art
Museum, Princeton, NJ; and more. |