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- Notes
- ↑ Theatre Development Fund = TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards Announced
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- ↑ Gans, Andrew. "William Ivey Long Will Succeed Ted Chapin As Chair of American Theatre Wing" Playbill.com, June 27, 2012
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