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Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

A site-specific, interactive theater experience illuminating the story of Eugene Plummer, the namesake of Plummer Park in West Hollywood, California. Read More

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

Pachamama: Mother World

Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Pachamama: Mother World is an exploration of Dance Theatre inspired by the male initiation rituals of the Selk’nam, a tribe in Argentina. The performance unfolds like a prehistoric commedia dell arte, reconnecting with the primal impulses of art. Read More

Shakespeare(ISH) (2014)

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Shakespeare(ish) remixes Shakespeare’s best characters, poetry and plot devices with puppets, masks and original music. Read More

Sleep of Reason

Frank, Rachel

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Through a series of tableaux vivants, Sleep of Reason borrowed poses, characters, and narratives in Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos to examine the theatrical/performance implications of abuse as depicted in the Abu Ghraib photographs. Read More