Genres Theater

Paul Robeson Through His Words and Music

East Lynne Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

PAUL ROBESON THROUGH HIS WORDS AND MUSIC is an interweaving of two dozen songs that were sung by Robeson, with a narrative of his life as an actor, singer, activist, and humanitarian. Length:45-80 minutes. minutes. Performed by Derrick McQueen. Read More

EMMA GOLDMAN: MY LIFE

East Lynne Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

EMMA GOLDMAN: MY LIFE re-creates the tumultuous life of the early 20th Century American feminist and workers’ advocate who became a target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI. Performer/Playwright: Lorna Lable. Director: Karen Case Cook. Read More

Trail Magic — Grandma Gatewood: An Appalachian Tale

Eden Valley Enterprises

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The story of Emma Gatewood who became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at the age of 67 after raising 11 children and surviving domestic abuse on September 25, 1955! Read More

Machinal

EgoPo Classic Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

EgoPo's production of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Brenna Geffers. Read More

Paradigm Shifts

Encompass New Opera Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Music and Cinema come together to celebrate true stories of courageous change-makers from around the world who are preserving our Planet, Oceans, and Wildlife. Read More

The Ultimate Stimulus: Now More Than Ever

Felipe Ossa

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Renegade economist Amanda McCloud has a solution to wealth inequality: a modern-day, pansexual version of concubinage. And she’s got a video to walk us through her plan, rife with socio-economic anxiety, awkward sex and some very eligible billionaires. Read More

The Stranger Disease

Goat in the Road Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

The Stranger Disease is a unique immersive theatrical experience that follows seven characters who live in, or orbit around an 1878 New Orleans boarding house as rumors of a yellow fever epidemic begins to spread. The show examines race, class, and gender lines during the Reconstruction-era. Read More

Within Arm’s Reach

Going to Tahiti Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

An original stage adaptation of the novel by Ann Napolitano explores how an unexpected pregnancy rocks a modern Irish American family - "roll[s the] family on its back like a helpless animal, arms and legs waving in the air." Read More

Spaghetti Dinners

Great Small Works

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

A decades-old series, cabaret-style performances in puppetry, music, spoken word, theater and dance, and spaghetti, supporting artistic experimentation and engagement with critical thinking, feeding ourselves and our audiences with food, with art, and with ideas. Read More

The Fall (2014)

Hanukai, Simón

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A multi-media theater performance that examines the world's relationship to the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, as we approach its 25th anniversary on November 9th, 2014. Read More

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