The Lynn Riggs Award
The Lynn Riggs Award is named after Oklahoma's most distinguished playwright and is presented to outstanding artistic contributors who are Oklahomans by birth (or choice), for their deep and lasting commitment to the perpetuation and improvement of the arts in the state of Oklahoma.
The Lynn Riggs Award and banquets are presented by the Rogers County Historical Society, Claremore Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Green Country Arts & Humanities Association.
2007 Co-recipients:
2007 - Betty Price
and 2007 - Woody Crumbo
2005-2006 No Award Given
2004 Co-recipients:
2004 - Rilla Askew
and 2004 - Jerome Tiger
2003 - Maggie Culver Fry
2002 Co-recipients:
2002 - Teresa Miller
and 2002 - Ralph Ellison
2001 Co-recipients:
2001 - Claude "Fiddler" Williams
and 2001 - Angie Debo
2000 Co-recipients:
2000 - Woody Guthrie
and 2000 - Clifton Taulbert
1999 - Willard Stone
1996-1997-1998 No Award Given
1995 - Kelly Haney
1994 - Michael Wallis
1993 - P.S. Gordon
1992 - Patti Page
1991 - Ridge Bond
1990 - Ralph Blane
1989 - Moscelyne Larkin
1988 - Charles Banks Wilson
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