Category
page 1Bessie Award winners
Bill Irwin
American actor, clown, and comedian (born 1950)
David Byrne
Scottish-American musician (born 1952)
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist (1932–2013)

Robert Wilson
American stage director and playwright (1941–2025)
Meredith Monk
American musician (born 1942)
Trisha Brown
artist, dancer, and choreographer (1936-2017)
Angelin Preljocaj
French dancer and choreographer
William Forsythe
American choreographer (born 1949)
Steve Paxton
American experimental dancer and choreographer (1939–2024)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Belgian choreographer
Julius Hemphill
American saxophonist (1938-1995)
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
Jérôme Bel
French dancer and choreographer
Mark Morris
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Bill T. Jones
American artist and dancer
Herman Cornejo
Argentinian dancer
Peter Gordon
American composer and musician
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Chicano artist (born 1955)
Anne Bogart
American director
Charles Atlas
video artist and film director (born 1949)
Édouard Lock
Canadian choreographer
Garth Fagan
Jamaican-American dancer, choreographer, artistic director (born 1940)

Pavel Karmanov
Russian composer, rock musician
Bessie Awards
American awards for choreographers, performers etc. of contempory dance in NYC in several categories (1983–)