Genres Theater
Vision Disturbance
Masciotti, Christina
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
In this work from rising star, Christina Masciotti, a middle-aged Greek woman’s divorce causes her retinal distress that leads her to develop an unexpectedly intimate connection with the ophthalmologist who treats her. Read More
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- Website: http://www.aoiagency.com/2011/02/christina-masciotti/
Blacken The Bubble
McCrory, Jonathan
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Blacken the Bubble is an affirmative action comedy set in a "post racial" America. Mega-company Firm Glass is in danger of losing government contracts due to the lack of diversity in their workplace. Read More
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- Website: http://firmglass.wix.com/blackenbubble
Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Money
McEwen, Christian
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Legal Tender is a play about women's relationship to money. It is based on interviews with 46 different women, ranging in age from 6 to 94, and is composed like a collage, pieced together out of stories, choruses and quotations. The set is minimal. Read More
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- Website: http://www.christianmcewen.com
Very Serious Theatre
Messenger Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Very Serious Theatre features masked performers who attempt to stage Shakespeare’s plays but always mess them up. For our two improvised performances to International High School at LGCC, we incorporated what the students were reading so we did a comedy mash-up of Romeo and Juliet and The Stranger. Read More
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- Website: https://www.messengertheatreco.org/
Musical for Women
ML Droz / Ayil Arts
Year Grant Awarded: 2009
In accordance with the values of Jewish tradition, this production accommodates Sabbath laws and the need for women-only performance setting. The original script with music follows the lives and struggles of 7 women in the orthodox Jewish community. Read More
Jimmy!: A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis (2014)
National Theatre for Student Artists
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
When the press discovers that Jimmy Carter spotted a UFO back in 1969, Jimmy must use his no-count brother Billy's time traveling beer to stop an intergalactic war. Jimmy! was created entirely by high school and college students from across the USA. Read More
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- Website: www.nationalstudenttheatre.org
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Central Park, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park
New York Classical Theatre
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
New York Classical Theatre presented a professional, Off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on tour throughout Central Park, Rockefeller Park, Prospect Park, and Carl Schurz Park in June and July 2016--at no cost to our diverse, urban audiences. Read More
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- Website: https://nyclassical.org/
Off and Running
Nicole Opper
Year Grant Awarded: 2006
In her high school, Avery is known as the “black track star.” In her Brooklyn neighborhood she is the adopted daughter of white Jewish lesbians with an older Puerto-Rican brother and a younger Korean brother. At home she’s simply Avery. Now Avery is Read More
World Premiere Production of Yarns
No Dominion Theatre Co.
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Yarns is an original devised performance by No Dominion Theatre Co. that debuted in Jersey City in 2018. Yarns utilizes various found texts and burlesque as the framework to examine parallels between fiber arts and sex work to explore connections among what society and the media deem “women’s work." Read More
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- Website: www.nodominiontheatre.org
1918: A House Divided
none
Year Grant Awarded: 2007
1918: A House Divided is a musical drama set in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn against the background of the Great War, a conflict that divided the city, the country and the world. The conservative mood nationwide was in contrast to the mood among New Yorkers involved in the worlds of music and art. Read More
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- Website: www.barbara-kahn.com