T. Arthur Cottam received an Artistic Director Achievement Award from the Valley Theatre League for his role in this play believed to have been written in what year?
1603
Othello
Othello ("The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice)" is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.
 It is based on the story "Un Capitano Moro" ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.
 The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army and his unfaithful ensign, Iago.
 Given its varied and enduring themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance, "Othello" is still often performed in professional and community theatre alike, and has been the source for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.
T. Arthur Cottam
T. Arthur Cottam is a screenwriter, actor, producer and film director.
 A graduate of the Film and Television Production program at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Cottam resides in Los Angeles, California.
 He acted in theatre, and received an Artistic Director Achievement Award from the Valley Theatre League for his role in the theatre production "Othello" as a cast member of Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group.
 Cottam directed short films along a topical series called "Dirty Little Shorts".
Ken Webster
Ken Webster (born July 29, 1957 in Port Arthur, Texas) is the artistic director of Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas.
 He has been nominated for 47 B. Iden Payne Awards and 24 Critics' Table Awards for acting, directing, and producing.
 He has received fourteen B. Iden Payne Awards, including a 2008 award for directing "Dog Sees God" and a 2007 award for directing "The Pillowman", a 2004 award for directing The Drawer Boy and a 2003 award for directing "Quake" at HPT.
 He also won the 2012 Critics' Table Award for Outstanding Direction for "The Aliens", 2007 Critics' Table Award for Outstanding Lead Acting for "St. Nicholas" and "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", and a 2003 Austin Critics’ Table award for directing "Something Someone Someplace Else" and "Marion Bridge" for HPT, and was awarded the 1999 Critics’ Table John Bustin Award for "conspicuous achievement."
 He was voted Best Director in the Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll in 2010, 2012, and 2013.
 His directing credits for HPT include "The Pillowman", "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", "My Child, My Child, My Alien Child", "You're No One's Nothing Special", "Lonely", "The Evidence of Silence Broken", "Chopper", "The Glory of Living", "Radio :30", "Ham", "Blue Surge", "Perdita", "Blur", and the world premiere of "Art Stripped Naked".
 His acting credits include "Slowgirl", "A Behanding in Spokane", "The Good Thief", "The Drawer Boy", "Blackbird", "The Pillowman", "The Water Principle", "Vigil", and "House" for HPT.
 His recent film and television acting credits include "Temple Grandin", "Waking Life", "A Scanner Darkly", and Friday Night Lights.
 Webster is the only director in Austin to have received awards for directing in each of the last four decades.
 He was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in June 2006.
 Webster is married to Austin actress and author Katherine Catmull. Artistic director (music)
An artistic director may refer to someone who directs a musical ensemble, and in this medium, is often abbreviated as simply Director.
 The typical jobs of a musical artistic director are to choose repertoire for the ensemble, come up with an artistic vision for the group and also a long-term strategy for programming, and also to help choose performers if the ensemble is not pre-set.
 An artistic director may also be—and often is—the conductor of the ensemble and a "jack of all trades", performing multiple roles and even managing the ensemble, although that role is often left to a Managing Director if financial resources are available.
 A musical artistic director essentially mirrors a theatrical artistic director, albeit working in a different medium. Vicky Featherstone
Vicky Featherstone (born 5 April 1967) is a theatre and artistic director.
 She has been artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre since April 2013.
 Prior to that she was founding artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland, and before that artistic director of the UK new writing touring theatre company Paines Plough.
 Her career has been characterised by significant involvement with new writing. Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, who handles the organization's artistic direction.
 They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization.
 The artistic director of a theatre company is the individual with the overarching artistic control of the theatre's production choices, directorial choices, and overall artistic vision.
 In smaller theatres, the artistic director may be the founder of the theatre and the primary director of its plays.
 In larger non-profit theatres (often known in Canada and the United States as regional theatres), the artistic director may be appointed by the board of directors. Gordon Edelstein
Gordon Edelstein is the Long Wharf Theatre’s Artistic Director.
 In addition to his work on the world premiere of Athol Fugard’s "Have You Seen Us"?
, Mr. Edelstein directed and adapted Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Long Wharf Theatre’s 2009-10 season.
 In addition, Edelstein directed "Coming Home" at Berkeley Rep and The Glass Menagerie starring Judith Ivey at Roundabout Theatre in New York City.
 His recent productions of Arthur Miller’s "The Price" and Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (which he also adapted) were on numerous best of 2007 lists including the Wall Street Journal.
 As a director, he has garnered three Connecticut Critics Circle Awards and during his tenure at Long Wharf Theatre, the theatre has produced world premieres by Paula Vogel, Athol Fugard, Craig Lucas, Julia Cho, Noah Haidle, Dael Orlandersmith, and Anna Deavere Smith.
 Over the course of his career, he has also directed and/or produced premieres by Philip Glass, Arthur Miller, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, James Lapine, Charles Mee, Mac Wellman, and Martin McDonagh, among many others, and has directed an extremely diverse body of work from Sophocles to Pinter, and from Shakespeare to Beckett.
 Under his artistic leadership, Long Wharf Theatre has received 14 additional Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, including six best actor or actress awards in plays that he directed.
 He was also given the organization’s Tom Killen Award, given annually to an individual who has made an indelible impact on the Connecticut theatrical landscape.
 Edelstein has directed countless plays and workshops for Long Wharf Theatre including the world premieres of BFE (transfer to Playwrights Horizons), The Day the Bronx Died (transfer to NY and London), A Dance Lesson, and The Times, as well as We Won’t Pay!
 We Won’t Pay!
, A New War, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Anna Christie, The Front Page, and Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Jane Alexander.
 Prior to assuming artistic leadership of Long Wharf Theatre, Edelstein helmed Seattle’s ACT Theatre for five years. Jonathan Holloway (artistic director)
Jonathan Holloway (born 15 January 1970) is an artistic director and theatre director.
 Originally from Sheffield in the north of England, he is currently the artistic director of Melbourne Festival.
 Previously he established the National Theatre's "Watch This Space" Festival, was artistic director and chief executive of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and most recently the artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival.
, which culminated with "The Giants" by Royal de Luxe, one of the largest arts events ever staged in Australia State Theatre (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
The State Theatre is a nonprofit venue for the performing arts and entertainment, located in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin with seating for 1100 people.
 It was first opened as a vaudeville theatre in 1926, then several years later converted to a movie house that closed in 1982.
 In 1984 the Theatre was donated to a group of arts-minded community members called the Eau Claire Regional Arts Council to create a center for artistic expression.
 After a significant renovation it reopened the doors in 1986.
 It is now used by a number of local performing arts organizations including: Chippewa Valley Symphony, Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild, Chippewa Valley Youth Choirs, Eau Claire Children's Theatre, Valley Gospel Choir and UW - Eau Claire. Bart Whiteman
Bart Whiteman (1948-March 14, 2006) was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer.
 He founded the Source Theatre in 1977 and served as its artistic director until 1986.
 He was influential in defining theatre in Washington as well as reviving 14th Street.
 According to Christopher Henley, artistic director of the "Washington Shakespeare Company", "Bart was one of the half-dozen or so of the most seminal influences on and pioneers of what theatre in D.C. was and has become.
 He was part of that synergy -- along with Joy [Zinoman, founding artistic director of the "Studio Theatre"] and Tony Abeson [founder and director of the Washington Theatre Laboratory] -- that really began the small professional theatre movement in D.C. in the late 1970s."
 Trey Graham of the Washington City Paper said that the richness and diversity of modern-day Washington theatre "had a lot to do with his role as evangelist and cattle prod and crazy-ass visionary."
 Whiteman left the Source Theater after an incident in which it produced "Fool for Love" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" without paying royalties.
 Later, he became a theater teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee and wrote editorials and theater reviews for "The Chattanoogan" in Chattanooga, Tennessee.