Grantees All Genres

Raw Thought, a documentary theatre play about the life, death, and work of Aaron Swartz
Co-Op Theatre East/Ashley Marinaccio
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Co-Op Theatre East Presents: Raw Thought An interpretation of the life, death, and writings of Aaron Swartz Written by Tyrus Holden Devised by Co-Op Theatre East ensemble members - Tyrus Holden, Ashley Marinaccio, Robert A.K. Gonyo, Gil Sperling, and Michael Rehse Directed by Ashley Marinaccio
- Email cooptheatreeast@gmail.com
- Website www.cooptheatreeast.org

Once She Dries
Cohen, Nancy
Year Grant Awarded: 2023
Once She Dries is an experimental opera and multimedia installation about coral reefs and climate change, created by 6 artists across 4 continents.
- Email nancy@nancymcohen.com
- Website www.onceshedries.com

The Trip Wire Project
Colburn, Michele
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
The Trip Wire Project documents deaths of U.S. soldiers and noncombatant civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of US involvement 15 years ago.The artist knitted a stitch in military surplus trip wire.

The Seven by Will Power, directed by Carl Cofield (2014)
Columbia Stages / Erik Kaiko
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
For his Columbia directing thesis, Carl Cofield chose to direct THE SEVEN by Will Power. This rap/hip-hop adaptation of Aeschylus' tragedy, THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, played the Connelly Theatre in NYC in Feb. 2014. Produced by grantee Erik Kaiko.

Living American Composers
Compact Discoveries, Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Puffin Foundation's funds were used to help pay the costs of producing two one-hour Compact Discoveries radio programs featuring, exclusively, the recorded works of living American composers.
- Email fred@compactdiscoveries.com
- Website http://www.compactdiscoveries.com

Camp Interesting
Conklin, Lydia
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A graphic novel set at an unusual sleep away camp in the north woods of Vermont.
- Email conklin.lydia@gmail.com

Jazz Arts Program for all Ages (2014)
Contemporary Arts Inc
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Jazz Arts Program for all ages supports our mission to perpetuate the art form of jazz through performance and education, bring jazz music to a variety of audiences in our community and create an uplifting environment for children, youth and families
- Email contemporaryartsinc@verizon.net
- Website www.contemporaryartsinc.org


#SoSadSoSexy
Cordes, Emily
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Drawing inspiration from contemporary Internet culture and narratives around mental illness, as well as accounts of Victorian insane asylums, “#SoSadSoSexy” is a devised play exploring Western culture’s ongoing fascination with, and misrepresentation of, depressed and unstable women.

Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay
Cornwall, Debi
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
A vivid and disorienting glimpse into the U.S. Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and its global diaspora of released men, through photographs, declassified archival material, and first-person texts. Award-winning as both fine-art book (Radius, 2017) and international exhibition.
- Email debi@debicornwall.com
- Website https://www.debicornwall.com