Grantees All Genres
Big Green Theater (2014)
The Bushwick Starr
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
BIG GREEN THEATER (BGT) is an annual eco-playwriting program and green theater festival celebrating environmental education, sustainability in the arts, and community enrichment.
- Website https://thebushwickstarr.wordpress.com/
The Caffè Lena History Project
The Caffè Lena History Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Caffè Lena is America’s oldest continually operating folk music coffeehouse. Puffin Foundation support enabled critical initial work on the Caffè Lena Oral History Project and the creation of the Caffè Lena History Project website.
- Website http://www.caffelenahistory.org
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.
Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Monumental Women is creating the first statue of real women in Central Park’s 167-year history. The Women's Rights Pioneers monument, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony will be unveiled on August 26th, 2020, the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote.
- Website www.monumentalwomen.org
The J Street Education Fund
The J Street Education Fund
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
J Street works within the American Jewish and broader pro-Israel communities to reshape the course of American foreign policy to advance US, Israeli and Palestinian interests in a manner that aligns with our community’s progressive, Jewish and democratic values.
- Website https://jstreet.org/
The Essential Straight & Narrow
The Mad Ones
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A lo-fi ode to the Kodachrome 1970s, rock and roll antics, and the mystical American Southwest: The Essential Straight & Narrow recalls a roadside layover in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, where passing the time becomes reliving the past.
- Website http://themadones.org/
Eco-Heroism
The MY HERO Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
MY HERO created a Celebrate ECO-Heroism DVD of inspiring short films about environmental heroes to be used as a companion to the ECO-Heroism Guide PDF. The DVD’s were duplicated and distributed to teachers at education conferences around the world.
- Website http://myhero.com
BAUBO
The Neo-Political Cowgirls
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
BAUBO, an outdoor, under-the-stars dance theater story reimagined the myth of Persephone & Demeter, adding in the oft-forgotten goddess of female laughter and raunch, Baubo. Set across the gorgeous hills of Montauk County Park, BAUBO plays high in the sky on a 20-foot aerial rig.
- Website www.npcowgirls.org
Orville and Wilbur Did It! (2014)
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Orville and Wilbur Did It! follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, ecstasies, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America – as they perform a children’s musical about the Wright Broth
- Website http://thenewcolony.org/
Orville and Wilbur Did It! by David Zellnik
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The world premiere of ORVILLE AND WILBUR DID IT! by David Zellnik (Yank!) follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America. June 13- July 20, 201
- Website http://thenewcolony.org