{"value"=>"<p>The organization files include correspondence, minutes, printed matter, guest lists, invitations, programs, awards and certificates, and clippings. The files span the years 1935 to 1999 and represent many organizations with which Miss Lortel had a long relationship, either as a donor and/or as a board member or artistic advisor. Also included are organizations which honored Miss Lortel in some way. Organizations include numerous theater-related groups and academic institutions. The earliest material is found in the ANTA (American National Theatre and Academy) files (1935-1966). Papers include correspondence and printed matter, and copies of ANTA's newsletter (<span class=\"title\">Chapter One</span>). Other organizations which are well-represented include Actors' Equity, Actors' Fund of America, American Theatre Wing, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Brown University, Circle in the Square, Circle Repertory Company, CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, Drama League, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Fairfield University, Goodspeed Opera House, League of Professional Theatre Women, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Museum of the City of New York, New Dramatists, The New York Public Library, New York University School of the Arts, O'Casey Theater Company, The Players, New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre, St. Clare's Hospital, Signature Theatre Company, University of Bridgeport, Westport Public Library, and Yale School of Drama.</p> <p>Miss Lortel's relationship with the academic community is reflected in the organizational files. The Lucille Lortel Professorial Chair in Theatre was established at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center in 1989 and the university awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in 1993. She also received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Bridgeport in 1985 and Fairfield University in 1987. In 1996 she created the Lucille Lortel Fellowship in Playwriting at Brown University. Her correspondents at Brown included Paula Vogel and Vartan Gregorian. Miss Lortel also had strong ties to the Yale School of Drama (1966-1998) where she established the Lucille Lortel Fund for New Drama at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985. The first new play to be presented with the gift was August Wilson's <span class=\"title\">Fences</span>. It was also at Yale that Miss Lortel first saw Lee Blessing's <span class=\"title\">A Walk in the Woods</span>, which she took to Broadway, London and Moscow during 1988-1989. Lloyd Richards, Dean of the Yale School of Drama, and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre was a frequent correspondent. The files for New York University Tisch School of the Arts (1981-1998) document the establishment of the Lucille Lortel Graduate Readings in 1992. Miss Lortel's relationship with The New York Public Library (1980-1998) includes her funding of the Lucille Lortel Room for the viewing of tapes in the library's Theatre on Film and Tape, and the library's screening of her biographical film <span class=\"title\">The Queen of Off-Broadway</span> and mounting an exhibition of her career. The files for the Museum of the City of New York (1968-1997) document Lucille Lortel's work with the Theatre Collection there and her contributions to the Museum including the opening of the Lortel Gallery in 1981. Unrelated to her theatrical pursuits, Miss Lortel funded a scholarship in memory of her brother Waldo Mayo at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The files (1983-1989) contain letters from recipients telling Miss Lortel about themselves and their studies. At Columbia University she also funded the Meyer Berger Award, a journalism award initiated by her husband Louis Schweitzer. Some of the Connecticut organizations included the Westport Historical Society, the Westport Public Library and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. From the 1960s through the 1990s Miss Lortel had an ongoing relationship with many theater companies and organizations in New York and Connecticut. The files include correspondence with many notable theatrical personalities, including Nedda Harrigan Logan and Tom Dillon (Actors' Fund), Isabelle Stevenson (American Theatre Wing), Julia Hansen (Drama League), Shivaun O'Casey (O'Casey Theater Company), Michael Price (Goodspeed), George White (Eugene O'Neill), Barry Grove and Lynne Meadow (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Tanya Berezin (Circle Rep). The Signature Theatre Company file includes letters from a March 1997 tribute to Miss Lortel and Horton Foote. Writers include Horton Foote, Julie Harris, Ellen Stewart and George C. Wolfe.</p>"}