TMAA Past Honorees 2015

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has written eight books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan,...

Houston native Chandra Wilson is in her 11th season on Grey’s Anatomy.  She has appeared in numerous television, film, and Broadway roles and has received the Screen Actors Guild Award,...

Robert Schenkkan, who grew up in Austin and received a B.A. in drama from the University of Texas, is an award-winning writer of theater, film and television. He co-authored the...

Charles Renfro is a Partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates the performing arts, visual arts, and architecture. He has led numerous high-profile design projects,...

For more than 60 years, journalist Dan Rather has covered virtually every major event in the world and he continues to do extensive on-scene reporting. He began his career as...

Emilio Nicolas, Sr. is one of the founding pioneers of Spanish language television in the United States. He began his television career in 1955 in San Antonio, later becoming the...

Margaret McDermott is a civic leader, philanthropist, patron of the arts and educational champion long committed to making her community a better place. In 1955, she and her late husband...

The 2014 winner of the MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant, Artist Rick Lowe of Houston has participated in exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. He founded Project Row Houses, an arts...

The Kilgore College Rangerettes, founded in 1939 at Kilgore College, were the first group of their kind and pioneered the field of dancing drill teams that has spurred a multi-billion-dollar...