Spalding Gray Awards

There are two different Awards given out annually:

  1. The Spalding Gray Memorial Scholarship Fund awarded to Students of the Arts who are in financial need. Established at the NYC Memorial Service 2004 in NYC.
    Following song download ($1) goes 100% to the Scholarship Fund

    Musical artist Bob Egan presents
    Spalding's Lament
    on his new solo album The Glorious Decline

    Bob Egan Biography


    The 1st year Winners of the Spalding Gray Scholarship:

    High School:

    1st Place:   Christopher Impiglia - Every drop is a memory   12th Grade

    2nd Place:   Noah Salaway  -  I Went to See My Doctor  12th Grade

    3rd Place:  Johannes Golden -   Once More Down Main Street  12th Grade

    Middle School:

    1st  Place:   Tessa VonWalderdorff  -  A Treasure   7th Grade

    2nd Place:  Brandon Pettaway -   Staff Sergeant James L. Pettaway   8th Grade

    3rd Place:   Madeline Kiss   6th Grade


    The 2nd year Winners of the Spalding Gray Scholarship:

    High School:

    1st Place:   Adrian Trunzo

    2nd Place:   Raphael Odell Shapiro

    3rd Place:    Joseph Saunders

    Middle School:

    1st Place:    Hayden Aldredge

    2nd Place:   Kate Fitzsimons

    3rd Place:   Ben Okin


  2. The Spalding Gray Award provided to theatre artists to fund new works - presented in association with PS122and UCLA

    a) First Year: Heather Woodbury - a strong supporter of this site. Heather is great!!!

    b) Second Year: The National Theater of the United States of America

    c) Third Year: Radiohole, a Brooklyn Experimental Theatre Group (their website is a Must...)