The Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award - 2006
Judith "Judy" L. Brown
Nominated By The Honorable Steve Stockton
Bloomington
Judith "Judy" L. Brown
Judith Brown has been creatively using theater to interpret and present the history of Illinois for many years. As Artistic Director and founder of Illinois Voices Theatre, she has been involved with Voices from the Past: A Discovery Walk through Evergreen Cemetery since its inception,facilitating this annual award-winning event's growth in her roles as director, writer, and actor. She and her collaborators at the McLean County Museum of History have turned the Voices from the Past cemetery walk into a much-copied event that is known state-wide as the "granddaddy" of cemetery walks. Ms. Brown also serves as Executive Director of the Illinois Theatre Consortium, where she commissions, develops, and produces original full-length works such as Quiet Tumult: The Papers of Adlai Stevenson by Brian Simpson. Her contributions to the humanities in Illinois run long and deep, and include projects such as the production of a Heart of Illinois Talking Book Center project in 1992-1993 entitled Illinois Patchwork: Oral Remembrances from Residents of the Heart of Illinois Talking Book Center Region and the writing and performance in 1989 of Depression Voices, a work commissioned by the Bloomington Public Library.Return to the archive listing for The Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award - 2006
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