Susan Booth receives Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities

?The hits keep coming for Susan Booth. The Alliance Theatre's artistic director, and guest critic for Best of Atlanta issue, was one of 13 recipients of Governor Nathan Deal's Award for the Arts and Humanitieshttp://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2015-10-06/deal-honors-contributors-arts-and-humanities. Along with taking the lead on local productions that eventually landed on Broadway, Booth's been credited with developing programs — the Collision Project for Teens, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, and Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab — that work to educate and guide new playwrights, productions, and artists.
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?Under Booth's leadership, the Alliance has also grown to be the largest-producing theater in the southeast. She was also person behind the launch of the theater's first capital and endowment campaign, which will give the Alliance some much-needed renovations for the first time in almost five decades. Those renovations are slated for completion by the 2018-19 season.
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?The rest of the winners include:
??? Dr. Elizabeth “Libby” Bailey, Macon
? Brenda Bynum, Atlanta
? Jerry and Kathy Chappelle, Watkinsville
? Dr. James C. Cobb, Athens
? Dale Dyer, Blue Ridge
? Joyce Perdue-Smith, Rome
? Mausiki Scales, Atlanta
? Robert Webb, Dalton
? Foxfire, Mountain City
? Pasaquan Preservation Society, Buena Vista
? Slow Exposures, Zebulon
? Telfair Museums, Savannah??