This award is given to an artist or individual whose work has set a high standard of individuality and self-styled creativity.

Named one of BUZZ MAGAZINE’S "100 Coolest People in L.A.," Amy Hill is an actor/writer whose film and television credits include Dim Sum, Singles, Rising Sun, Seinfeld, a regular role as Grandma in the ABC series All American Girl, as Kay in Maybe This Time with Betty White and Marie Osmond as Sumi in the last season’s mid-season replacement for Fox Pauly, and she can now be seen as tabloid photograper Suji in NBC’s The Naked Truth with Tea Leoni. Of her Award Winning one-woman shows, Tokoyo Bound played to sellout houses and was critically acclaimed across the country, was part of the Festival of New Voices at the Public Theatre in New York and was nominated for a ‘95 Cable Ace Award, Beside Myself was seen on the mainstage of L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum, while Reunion (the final chapter of her trilogy) recently returned from a sold out engagement at the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Flying Solo Festival. Most recently, she was commissioned by the Mark Taper’s Asian American Theatre Workshop to write a new play, Lazy Susan, A writer for PBS’ The Puzzle Place, and nominated for a regional Emmy as writer/host of Get Real--a syndicated Asian American Teen talk show--she is currently completing a script for the animated HBO series Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales for Every Child.

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