The Sarah Siddons Society is pleased to announce that John O'Hurley is the winner of the 2010-2011 Sarah Siddons Award.        

John O'Hurley

The Sarah Siddons Society is also pleased to announce that E. Faye Butler is the winner of the 2010-2011 Chicago's Leading Lady Award. The award will be presented at the Sarah Siddons annual meeting, to be held November 15, 2011.

E. Faye Butler

 

Chicago Actor of the Year Award
Sarah Siddons Award

The Sarah Siddons Society Awardees

1952-53 Helen Hayes - Mrs. McThing
1953-54 Beatrice Lillie - An Evening with Beatrice Lillie
1954-55 Deborah Kerr- Tea & Sympathy
1955-56 Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed
1956-57 Shirley Booth - The Desk Set
1957-58 Anne Rogers - My Fair Lady
1958-59 Ruth Roman - Two for the Seesaw
1959-60 Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
1960-61 Gertrude Berg - A Majority of One
1961-62 Florence Henderson - The Sound of Music
1962-63 Julia Meade - Mary, Mary
1963-64 Nancy Kelley - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1964-65 Myrna Loy - Barefoot in the Park
1965-66 Carol Channing - Hello Dolly
1966-67 Eve Arden - Hello Dolly
1967-68 Celeste Holm - Mame
1968-69 Helen Hayes - The Show Off
1969-70 Barbara Rush - Forty Carats
1970-71 Irene Dailey - The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigold
1971-72 Lauren Bacall - Applause
1972-73 Bette Davis - Special 20th Anniversary Award for "All About Eve"
1973-74 Sada Thompson - Twigs
1974-75 Colleen Dewhurst - A  Moon for the Misbegotten
1975-76 Angela Lansbury - Gypsy
1976-77 Julie Harris - The Belle of Amherst
1977-78 Lynn Redgrave - Misalliance
1978-79 Cloris Leachman - Twigs
1979-80 Jessica Tandy - The Gin Game
1980-81 Claudette Colbert - The Kingfisher
1981-82 Angela Lansbury - Sweeney Todd
1982-83 Dorothy Loudon - The West Side Waltz
1983-84 Ann Miller - Sugar Babies
1984-85 Lauren Bacall - Woman of the Year
1985-86 Rita Moreno - The Odd Couple
1986-87 Lucie Arnaz - My One and Only
1987-88 Liza Minnelli - Liza Minnelli Revue
1988-89 Sada Thompson - Driving Miss Daisy
1989-90 Lily Tomlin - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
1990-91 Ellen Burstyn - Shirley Valentine
1991-92 Loretta Swit - Shirley Valentine
1992-93 Stefanie Powers - Love Letters
1993-94 Bernadette Peters - The Goodbye Girl
1994-95 Lynn Redgrave - Shakespeare for My Father
1995-96 Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria
1996-97 Faye Dunaway - Master Class
1998-99 Brian Dennehy - Death of a Salesman
1999-00  Heather Headley - Aida
2001-02 Chita Rivera - The Visit
2003-04 Elaine Stritch - Elaine Stritch at Liberty
2005-06 John Mahoney - Chicago performances
2007-08 Kathleen Turner - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2008-09 William Petersen
2009-10 Patti LuPone

 

Bette Davis, Anne Baxter & Lucia Perrigo Meyers
Helen Hayes
First winner of the Sarah Siddons Society Award.  Honored as Chicago's most outstanding actress of the 1952-53 theatrical season for her role in Mrs. McThing, Helen Hayes is congratulated by Mr. and Mrs. James Hart at the Society's first annual Gala
Lauren Bacall & Irv Kupcinet

Lauren Bacall & Irv Kupcinet
Lauren Bacall is the winner of two Sarah Siddons Awards  (1971-72 for Applause & 1984-85 for Woman of the Year)


 

Bette Davis & Stanley Paul
Bette Davis was the recipient of the 1972-73 Special 20th Anniversary Award for All About Eve.

Betty Stuart Rodgers Jeffreys & Lily Tomlin

Betty Stuart Rodgers Jeffreys & Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin was the recipient of the 1989-90 
Sarah Siddons Society Award for her one-woman show, 
The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Stanley Paul, Donna Atwater, Elaine Stritch, Merle Reskin, Greta Wiley
Elaine Stritch was the recipient of the 2003-04 Sarah Siddons Award  for her show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty.

 

Chicago's Leading Lady Awards

 

Chicago's Leading Lady Awards have been given to:  Laurie Metcalf, Lia Mortenson, Barbara Robertson, Ann Whitney, Hollis Resnick, Rondi Reed, Paula Scrofano, Ami Silverstri, Linda Stephens, Carmen Roman, Amy Morton, Kate Fry, Kati Brazda, Heidi Kettenring,  Deanna Dunagan, and Mary Beth Fisher.

Chicago's Great Ladies of the Theatre

The Society has honored Chicago’s Great Ladies of the Theatre: Barbara Gaines, Martha Lavey, and Mary Zimmerman.

 

Special Tributes

The Sarah Siddons Society has given special tributes to Frank Galati, Associate Director, Goodman Theatre and to Richard Christiansen, Chief Critic and Senior Writer Chicago Tribune.