This award is bestowed upon an artist or individual who has brought credibility and dignity to her work.

A Chicago native, L. Scott Caldwell moved to New York to study with Hagen and ended up becoming a member of the Negro Ensemble Company, originating roles in over twenty plays. Her Broadway debut was in the award-winning production of Samm-art Williams’ Home. She won the Tony Award for her work in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. She has worked in regional theatres across the country in such productions as Boseman and Lena, The Piano Lesson, A Raisin in the Sun, and A Play of Giants. In Los Angeles, she won her third DramaLogue Award for her work in From the Mississippi Delta and played the title role in the blacksmyth’s Production of Silas Jones’ American Medea. Her film credits include a starring role in Soweto Green, the first film shot in a Democratic free South Africa, Waiting to Exhale, The Fugitive, Down Came a Blackbird, Devil in a Blue Dress, Dutch, Without A Trace, Extreme Justice, and the soon to be released Twilight Man. On television, Ms. Caldwell co-starred in the television movies God Bless the Child, Darkness Before the Dawn, Dangerous Passion, The Switch, and Loves, Lies and Murder. She guest starred on The Prowler, Lois and Clark, Grace Under Fire, Melrose Place, L.A. Law, Tour of Duty, thirtysomething, Reasonable Doubts, Alienation, and Bringing Up Jack

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