Continuing the Legacy! Anna K. Jacobs Receives the 2016 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award; Diane Lane & More Attend

The Ziegfeld Club, a non-profit dedicated to helping women in the theater community, awarded composer and lyricist Anna K. Jacobs the 2016 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award on November 7. Distributed by last year's recipient, composer Masi Asare, the prize provides a grant of $10,000 and a year of professional mentorship from luminaries, including Academy Award winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Tony-winning producer Barbara Whitman. In addition, teacher Cecilia Smith won the first Liz Swados Inspiration Grant; The Cherry Orchard star and Academy Award nominee Diane Lane collaborated with the Ziegfeld Club to create the grant for female educators invested in music. Take a look at our hot shots of the ladies continuing Billie Burke Ziegfeld's legacy, including Asare, Smith and Jacobs (above) and Roz Lichter, Lane, Ziegfeld Club Executive Director Laurie Sanderson and Eleanor Lambert (below).