art-making. Awards, honors, and fellowships Ms. Parson has been nominated for the CalArts/ Alpert Award seven times. She was a YCC choreographer at The American Dance Festival where she worked with composer Richard Einhorn to create City of Brides. 2020 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for David Byrne's American Utopia 2017 Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship 2015 Olivier Award nominee (London) for Best Theater Choreographer (Here Lies Love) 2014 Prelude Festival's FRANKY Award: Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award 2014 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award 2013/2006/2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship 2012 United States Artists Fellowship 2010/2002 New York Dance and Performance BESSIE Awards 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship 2011/2012 Lucille Lortel nominations 2000/2005/2012 NYFA 2007 Big Dance Theater receives the first Creativity Award from Jacobs Pillow 2000 Big Dance Theater awarded an OBIE References External links bigdancetheater.org Annie-B Parson — the choreographer who democratised dance American choreographers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Brooklyn Place of birth missing (living people) American theatre directors Women theatre directors American female dancers Dancers from New York (state) Modern dancers 21st-century American women