Genres Theater

Carry it Forward: Celebrate the Children of Resistance

Rosenberg Fund for Children

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

On Sunday, June 16, 2013, the RFC will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Ethel and Julius Rosenbergs’ executions with a benefit event at The Town Hall in New York City starring Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, and Cotter Smith. More info at www.rfc.org. Read More

Zara Notes (2014)

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Zara Notes is a theatrical exploration of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. The fictional hermit-prophet takes you through his tenets and then sweeps you up in the endless, joyful cycle of creation/destruction/recreation. Read More

Five Flights Up

Schlesinger, Toni

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A reporter sets out to write the greatest book in the world about how people live and survive, visiting them in their homes which consistently embody their character and longings and state of being. Her journey is a mirror of the complexity of the Read More

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Sister Company/Kris Lundberg

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

This all-female production is set in the roaring 1920s of Chicago amid gang rivalries and power struggles between the Italian and Irish within the underworld culture exploring the violent nature of gangsters and a women’s right to rise up in society. Read More

diásPoRa (previously “Riqueño”)

Sierra, Paloma

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

A bilingual play in verse examining Puerto Rican identity and its evolution during the Hispanic-American War, hurricane María, and the present time. Length: 60-MINUTES Ensemble: 3 Women / 2 Men Read More

Fabric of the Forest

Sova Dance & Puppet Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

"Fabric of the Forest" a.k.a. "Theatre in the Rough" is a theatrical hiking experience where our playful characters further enliven the breath and space of a variety of outdoor art installations created within the Rebirth Arts Festival, a free & accessible large-scale rural event in Easton, CT. Read More

“While You Are Out”

Sova Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

"While You Were Out" features Justin Perlman & Adelka Polak's original hand, rod & shadow puppets created from natural plant materials, textiles and handmade papers. These larger than life figures construct Shakespeare's fairy kingdom in this live theatrical experience of "Midsummer Night's Dream." Read More

“In the Time of the Butterflies” Study Guide

Spanish Theatre Repertory Co. Ltd.

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Developing of an online study guide of the theatre play “In the Time of the Butterflies” that includes breakdowns of plot, character and setting as well as information about the author, playwright and the historical context of the story. Read More

ATM or this is [not] new york

Sponsored By Nobody/Kevin Doyle

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

A work of interdisciplinary theatre that uses New Yorkers' interactions with our city's homeless population as a means to investigate shifting demographics and values under the financial crisis. Premiered November 2010 at Monty Arts Center, Antwerp. Read More

How I Learned to Drive

Starwberry Theatre Workshop

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

"How I Learned to Drive" is a forgiving story of an unforgivable relationship. Strawberry Theatre Workshop staged Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winner June 7-July 7 at 12th Ave Arts in Seattle. Read More

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