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King of Nothing

No Exit Theatre Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

King of Nothing is a one-clown/one-sock puppet mangling of King Lear set on a mountain of trash lit entirely by the audience. It was originally workshopped as part of TrashFest/DarkFest in June 2022, and had its world premier in May 2023 at The Brick in association with No Exit Theatre Collective. Read More

Poetic People Power

Bracco, Tara

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

P3's 20th anniversary show, Not Yet Said, featured new spoken word poems by seven artists. Read More

Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares

Stoddard, Christine

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

"Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" is a stage play written by Christine Stoddard. It follows Maya, a young Salvadoran-American, who navigates trauma and family mythology through magic and folklore as she comes of age in Phoenix, Arizona. Read More

Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs

Flux Theatre Ensemble

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Flux Theatre Ensemble presents the World Premiere of Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs, a speculative mytho-musical drama written by Emily and Ned Hartford with songs by Ned Hartford, directed by Emily Hartford. Read More

The Last Gatekeeper

Toussaint, Germono

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The Last Gatekeeper is a three-act, extended-reality (XR) enhanced, Afro-futurist, musical inspired by the teachings of West African shaman and scholar Malidoma Patrice Somé. Read More

Agua, Vida y Tierra

What Will the Neighbors Say?

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

"Agua, Vida y Tierra" is a bilingual multimedia documentary theatre piece about Puerto Rico and the colonial relationship between the island and the United States. Read More

Atlantic City: The Musical

Kostyrko, Sasha

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Roll the dice! Atlantic City: The Musical is an interactive satirical revue that scrutinizes the game of winners and losers in America by examining this city’s rich, complex history. Capitalism, climate change and identity politics are all on the table. Place your bets for the American Dream. Read More

No Pants In Tucson

The Anthropologists

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

The Anthropologists presents the World Premiere of No Pants in Tucson. It’s the year 1883 and an ordinance prohibiting women from wearing pants has been ordered in Tucson. In the subversive new comedy, No Pants In Tucson, The Anthropologists dares to calculate the cost of gender oppression. Read More

Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek, Directed by Ildiko Nemeth

The New Stage Theatre Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Nobel Prize-winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek's cerebral work examines the silence around an actual event of mind-boggling evil. 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