Grantee tags theater

Extreme Whether

Theater Three Collaborative

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

"Extreme Whether" is a family drama in which a famous climate scientist, John Bjornson, battles his twin sister, Jeanne, a publicist for the energy industry, over land and climate change. Read More

Playback Theatre Festival 2012

Arts Rising

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

October 5-8 2012, D.C, the Playback Theatre Festival "Making Life Visible" convened 150 performing artists, from 39 troupes, featured 40 workshops on social impact and artistry, and offered community plenaries and 6 public performances. Read More

2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays in NYC!

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, a 2010 AUDELCO award winner, presented seven one-acts about the black experience as a lunchtime reading series at the Workshop Theatre’s Jewel Theater in Midtown Manhattan, May 16-20, 2012. Read More

MY POOR MARAT (МОЙ БЕДНЫЙ МАРАТ)

Voyage Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

As a featured event of Russian-American History Month, Voyage Theater Company paid tribute to the survivors of the Siege of Leningrad in a rare bilingual production of MY POOR MARAT (МОЙ БЕДНЫЙ МАРАТ) by esteemed Russian playwright Aleksei Arbuzov. Read More

DRIVING THE BODY BACK

Swanderwoman Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A performance tour of Iowa Poet Mary Swander's poetic narrative, DRIVING THE BODY BACK. This intimate story of Irish family history staged and performed by actor Karan Benton has won critical and audience acclaim throughout the midwest. Read More

CSC’s YOUNG COMPANY Education & Outreach Initiative

Classic Stage Company (CSC)

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Through a series of interactive in-school workshops and dynamic productions specially designed for a teen audience, CSC’s YOUNG COMPANY Education & Outreach Initiative makes Shakespeare alive and accessible to underserved public school students. 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

Expansion of the Performing Arts School (formerly known as beyondEDUCATION)

Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC)

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

bergenPAC received a grant to support the expansion of its beyondEDUCATION program, specifically the beyondTHEATER initiative. beyondTHEATER was created to provide students with instruction and performance opportunities in musical theater and drama. Read More

“Another Life”

Theater Three Collaborative

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

"Another Life", "stinging and satiric",is a poetic and surreal play based on fact about the U.S. torture program. Written and directed by Karen Malpede, starring George Bartenieff, produced with Festivals of Conscience by Theater Three Collaborative. Read More

The Orpheus Variations

The Deconstructive Theatre Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The Orpheus Variations is a fractured multimedia exploration of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld. Read More