Grantee tags American history

19 Wentworth Alley, Chinatown

Chan, Eugenie

Year Grant Awarded: 2014

Drawing on her grandfather's history, a man caught between medical studies & membership in a 1900s Chinatown prostitution guild, Eugenie Chan layers original material with family documents to explore his world of high hopes & hard choices. Read More

Benito Cereno by Robert Lowell.

Horizon Theatre Rep

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

The Year 1770. An American merchant vessel comes upon a mysterious Spanish ship where the nearly all-black crew and their white captain are starving... and yet, why are they so hostile to the Americans' offer to help? Read More

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