Grantee tags theater
The Stranger Disease
Goat in the Road Productions
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
The Stranger Disease is a unique immersive theatrical experience that follows seven characters who live in, or orbit around an 1878 New Orleans boarding house as rumors of a yellow fever epidemic begins to spread. The show examines race, class, and gender lines during the Reconstruction-era. Read More
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- Website: http://www.goatintheroadproductions.org
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
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- Website: www.rogueartists.org
The Appointment
Alice Yorke
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
A dark satire with original music, THE APPOINTMENT examines the misogyny, hypocrisy, and absurdity of the contemporary abortion debate in America. The work unpacks the economic, societal, and political systems that disempower groups of people from making informed reproductive decisions. Read More
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- Website: www.lightningrodspecial.com
Recitations in Movement
Lamprea, Stephanie
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Recitations in Movement is an interdisciplinary performance of George Aperghis' 14 Recitations. This show seeks to express the sufferings of domestic abuse victims through the interaction of movement and voice. Proceeds are donated to Rosie's Place, a battered women's shelter in Boston, MA. Read More
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- Website: http://www.stephanielamprea.com
Paradigm Shifts
Encompass New Opera Theatre
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Music and Cinema come together to celebrate true stories of courageous change-makers from around the world who are preserving our Planet, Oceans, and Wildlife. Read More
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- Website: https://www.encompasstheatre.org
Rerelease Party (The Golden Record)
A Host of People
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Re-Release Party is theatrical performance rooted in the 1977 project led by Carl Sagan and a dynamic team of scientists and artists who created the Golden Record, a phonograph record which attempts to communicate the story of life on earth for extraterrestrials and future humans. Read More
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- Website: www.ahostofpeople.org
Driftless
Hatch Arts Collective
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Driftless unearths the full cost of fracking and asks us to consider lives, relationships, and heritage as we seek answers for the future of our world. Read More
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- Website: https://www.hatcharts.org/
Women You Thought You Knew; A Trilogy
Stephanie Lynn Wilson
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Three full length plays about three different women who are typically prejudged by society. "The Grinder" about a stripper past her prime; Silk Stockings and a Bible" about a Swing Era chorus girl; and "Wild Child" about a Chinese American party girl who takes up with a PTSD Viet Nam veteran Read More
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- Website: http://www.wetbgprods.com
Nurse Asistio: Living the Filipino American Dream
Asistio, Lesley
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Nurse Asistio is about a Pilipina woman, who in an attempt to fulfill her mother’s hopes for her to become a nurse, tries to attain the American Dream while still staying true to her roots. This multi-character, surrealist-comedy explores dreams, happiness, relationships, and self-actualization. Read More
Two and Twenty Troubles
Victor, Ilyukhin
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
A documentary about performers with disabilities trying to make it in New York City. Read More