National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Fellowship, 1985
National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Fellowship, 1987
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1987
National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Fellowship, 1988
A “Bessie”, New York Dance and Performance Award, 1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Fellowship, 1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Fellowship, 1990
National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Fellowship, 1991
McKnight Fellow, Intermedia Arts, 1995
Jerome Travel/Work Grant, 1996
Minnesota State Arts Board, Theater Fellow, 1999
Bush Foundation Theater Fellow, 2000
McKnight Fellow, Intermedia Arts, 2001
McKnight Fellow, Playwrights Center, 2002
Rockefeller Creativity Culture Grant, 2004
for collaborative project with Mary Ellen Childs
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellow, 2006
Tony Brown is Co-Founder/Artistic Director of the Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company. In this role he has performed, composed and created multimedia imagery for all the company’s repertory works. Along with his own work he has created multimedia and original soundscores for The Children’s Theater, Minnesota Chorale, the University of Minnesota and Shapiro and Smith Dance.
At the University of Minnesota Tony helped design the media studios for the Theater Department and
taught multimedia production
and acting. He has also created multimedia imagery and music for several university productions, most recently Ball State University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Tony has also created award-winning theatrical multimedia installation works for Intermedia Arts and the Second Story Theatre NY.
Tony Brown teaches special workshops at the Center.



