[1] Signature would go on to feature playwrights such as Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Adrienne Kennedy, María Irene Fornés, and more recently the likes of Athol Fugard and Annie Baker.
It also includes two studio spaces, a shared lobby with a café, a bookshop, concierge desk, and administrative offices.
"[4] Houghton stepped down for the 2015-2016 season, and was replaced by Paige Evans, formerly the artistic director of LCT3, the new-play development program at Lincoln Center Theater.
Houghton became the Richard Rodgers Director of Drama at the Juilliard School in the 2006-2007 season, taking over the program that was founded by his former mentor John Houseman.
[9] Additionally, the masters program included a partnership with Signature in order to give students experience in a professional theatrical atmosphere.
We want our graduates to enter the workplace not just prepared for the task at hand, but equipped to produce work that ultimately stems from their core selves… who they are, and their own voice.
"[10] In 2015, Houghton was presented a special Obie Award by the American Theatre Wing for Sustained Achievement in the theatrical community.
"[1] Colleague Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, wrote upon hearing of Houghton's passing: "By his example, he reminded me constantly that we are all in this together, that theater isn’t a competition but a communion, that art isn’t a zero-sum game but a way of being that elevates all of us, and that the collaborative nature of our form must be reflected in the way we treat one another.