Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Artistic Director Rosalba Rolón has been awarded the 2025 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which includes a cash award of more than $250,000. The prize, given since 1994, is awarded to an artist or arts advocate “who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life…,” in the words of the late Academy Award-honored actor Lillian Gish.
“I am deeply moved to receive this recognition, which Lillian Gish established with the understanding that practicing artists can also have leadership roles and foster new generations in the arts,” says Rolón in a statement. “I want to bring light to the fact that this is not just about celebrating me, but also my performing arts family at Pregones/PRTT—multiple and loving generations of it—and the good people in other cities and countries with whom we have meaningfully collaborated in the spirit of live theatre and collective belonging. We lift each other up! What a beautiful mission the Gish Prize has, to recognize that in addition to the work we do artistically, we can lead movements and spread ideas that can impact our communities.”