Awards and Honors
Foreman has won seven Village Voice Obie Awards, including three for "Best Play", and one for Lifetime Achievement. In addition, he has received:
- 1972 – Guggenheim Fellowship for Playwriting
- 1974 – Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights Grant
- 1990 – Ford Foundation play development grant for Eddie Goes to Poetry City
- 1990 – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Distinguished Artist Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in Theater
- 1992 – American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
- 1992 & 1995 – NEA Playwriting Fellowship
- 1995-2000 – MacArthur Fellowship
- 1996 – Edwin Booth Award for Theatrical Achievement
- 2001 – PEN/Laura Pels Master American Playwright Award
- 2004 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France
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