Jason Robert Brown is the 2026 recipient of The William Finn Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre

Three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown is the composer/ lyricist best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time, including The Last Five Years; his debut song cycle Songs for a New World; the seminal Parade, winner of the Tony for Best Score and the 2023 Tony for Best Revival; The Bridges of Madison County, winner of the 2014 Tony for Best Score and Orchestrations; 13; Honeymoon In Vegas; Mr. Saturday Night, developed at BSC; and his most recent work, The Connector. Jason is also celebrated for his concert performances around the world as a pianist and singer.

Bruno & Mary Ann Quinson
(Founding Board President and Honorary Board Chair)

Since its founding in 1995, Mary Ann (Minkie) Quinson served as Board President for 19 years, before becoming Board Chair. Under her leadership, BSC has grown from a school auditorium in Sheffield to a nationally recognized regional theater with five buildings in Pittsfield and over 40,000 patrons a year.

Minkie graduated from Smith College and received a master’s from Columbia University’s School of Social Work. She did extensive casework with various hospitals, including Gracie Square Hospital, the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and had a private practice for decades.

Bruno Quinson’s book publishing career began at Simon & Schuster in 1960, after he graduated from Williams College and served in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1988, he became CEO, Publisher, and President of Henry Holt & Co., a subsidiary of the Holtzbrinck Publishing empire out of Stuttgart, Germany, from which he retired in 1996.

Today, Bruno serves on the board of the Barrington Stage Supporting Foundation, and Minkie is the Honorary Board Chair of the Board Emeritus. Their decades of tireless advocacy and support have served as BSC’s proverbial backbone, without which BSC would not have attained the breadth of programming, artistic influence, and institutional longevity it enjoys today. In short, there is no BSC without the commitment and passion of the Quinsons.

New work is the heart and soul of Barrington Stage. The company has produced more than 50 new works, with over half moving on to NYC and major regional theatres around the country. In 2026, BSC premiered Dead Girl’s Quinceañera, Estate Sale, The Urmetazoan, and The Zionists in Downtown Pittsfield

Your support makes it possible for Barrington Stage to continue to bring compelling new work to the forefront of American Theater!

In lieu of attendance, or in addition to your ticket, make a gift to the New Works Fund.

For more information, please contact Molly Meador, Development Associate, at 413.997.6115.

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