2008 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 12, 2007 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
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Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Theater

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (aka ACT Theatre)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of Beyond the 17th Parallel by T. D. Mitchell. The playwright will be in residence for development during the rehearsal period, and artistic director Kurt Beattie will direct the production.

About Productions
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
To support the development and production of Showing Our Age, an interdisciplinary performance piece based on the collected stories of older adults in Los Angeles. The production will be created by co-directors Theresa Chavez and Laurel Ollstein, with music by Robert Anderson.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000
To support the 32nd Humana Festival of New American Plays, an annual showcase of new theatrical work featuring American playwrights. Artistic director Marc Masterson will program and oversee the signature event.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$25,000
To support the Southern Writers Project Festival of New Plays. The festival will feature the world premiere production of Rocket City by Mark Saltzman and readings of new plays by Southern writers.

American Repertory Theatre (aka A.R.T.)
Cambridge, MA
$30,000
To support a production of Cardenio by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt, a new work inspired by the lost play by William Shakespeare. The production will be directed by Les Waters and performed at the Loeb Drama Center, with subsequent performances at the Public Theatre in New York.

American Theater Company (aka American Blues Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the launch of a national new play development program at the American Blues Theatre. The project will include commissions, development workshops, and a world premiere production.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The project will include the world premiere production of Wittenberg, a new play by David Davalos directed by Terry Nolan.

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$25,000
To support a production of To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. The production represents the first installment in the theater's Great American Stories Series, a multi-year programming initiative that will bring classic American works to Arizona audiences.

Atlantic Theater Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the commissioning, readings, and production of new works in the new play development and production program Atlantic Stage 2. The award-winning Off-Broadway theater will create an artistic home for emerging and established writers to develop new work and contribute to the life of the theater.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the development of young, emerging, and early-career writers in the Commissioning and New Play Development Program, with accompanying outreach activities. Associate artistic director Les Waters and resident dramaturg/literary manager Madeleine Oldham will oversee the program.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$20,000
To support the creation and tour of the show Connecting A Nation: The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad as part of the arts education program, Theater in the Classroom. Theater in the Classroom tours adaptations of world folk literature and American history to elementary and middle schools.

Bond Street Theatre Coalition, Ltd.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the final development and premiere of an ensemble-created theater production titled The Mechanical. The work will include multimedia, puppetry, music, and physical techniques to explore themes of science and history.

Boxtales Theatre Company
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
To support the development and production of an adaptation of 1001 Arabian Nights. The piece will employ circus arts, dance, and storytelling with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

California Shakespeare Theater (aka Cal Shakes)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support the commissioning of Octavio Solis and collaboration with San Francisco's Word for Word Performing Arts Company to adapt John Steinbeck's novel The Pasture of Heaven, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic director Jonathan Moscone will direct the production.

Cape Cod Theatre Project Inc.
Falmouth, MA
$10,000
To support the development, rehearsal, and staged readings of new American plays. The play development process will include accompanying outreach activities.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (aka Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a puppet theater work for the stage with live musical accompaniment adapted from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. Ensemble members of the Northwest Puppet Center will explore plays and operas with the Don Juan theme that appeared on theater and puppetry/marionette stages in 17th- and 18th-century Europe.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the final development and world premiere of Duke Ellington's Cat, a puppet work written and directed by associate artistic director Jon Ludwig. Concurrent education and museum activities for children and adults about puppetry, music, and American musical history will accompany the production.

Center Stage Associates, Inc. Endowment Fund (aka CENTERSTAGE)
Baltimore, MD
$40,000
To support the world premiere of These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, with accompanying educational activities. David Schweizer will direct the play.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the world premiere production of Of Equal Measure, a new play by Tanya Barfield. The production will be directed by Leigh Silverman.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Many Voices Project, a multicultural showcase of new plays in development. The program will offer developmental assistance to playwrights, culminating in public staged readings with professional theater artists.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
To support a production of The Ballad of Emmet Till, a new play by Ifa Bayeza. The production will be directed by Kate Whoriskey at the Goodman Theatre.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the world premiere production of Iqbal, a new play by Jerome Hairston, and the development of The Darwin Project by Deborah Stein. Educational components will include the Neighborhood Bridges program, school partnerships, and school matinee programs.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$20,000
To support the world premiere production and statewide tour of A Little Bit of Water, a new play for young audiences by Dwayne Hartford . The production will be directed by artistic director David Saar and Jos Cruz Gonzlez will serve as dramaturg.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of A Sleeping Country, a new play by Melanie Marnich. The play was selected as the winner of the Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the development and world premiere of a new play by David Grimm about the life of American poet Hart Crane. Artistic director Tracy Brigden will direct.

Civilians, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development, co-production, and associated community dialogue programs for This Beautiful City, a new documentary play by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis, with music by Michael Friedman. Created through a long-term process of interviews and community participation, the play explores the influential evangelical movement centered in Colorado Springs.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the production of An Evening of Gao Xingjian, co-directed by artistic director Raymond Bobgan. The project will include productions of The Other Shore and Between Life and Death.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Summerworks festival of new work The project will feature full productions of commissioned plays and a night of short works by various writers on the theme of legislation missing from the Bill of Rights.

Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc.
Shepherdstown, WV
$15,000
To support the development and production of Voyeurs de Venus by Lydia Diamond. Development of the piece will take place in Chicago, New York, and Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support the commissioning, readings, and production of EAT by playwright-in-residence Linda Dougherty, with accompanying educational outreach activities. The play will explore eating disorders in young people and engage teen audiences as part of the Young Adult Initiative.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (aka Denver Center Theatre)
Denver, CO
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Plainsong by playwright Eric Schmiedl, based on the novel by Kent Haruf. Artistic director Kent Thompson will direct the production.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$10,000
To support The Disappearance, based on short stories by Mexican Jewish author and scholar Ilan Stavans. Founder and artistic director Stacy Klein and Stavans will co-create the production.

Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of an ensemble work based on William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury. Artistic director John Collins will direct the new work titled Present (April 7, 1928) at New York City Workshop's mainstage theater.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc. (aka The O'Neill)
Waterford, CT
$30,000
To support the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. The project will include the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation of Undesirable Elements/Philadelphia, an original work that will explore evolving conceptions of race, identity, and culture in America. Artistic director and writer Ping Chong will partner with the Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia in a multi-part residency to develop a theater work based on oral histories.

Ford Theatre Foundation (Consortium)
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
To support the [Inside] Partnership Series. In partnership with Circle X Theatre Company, the theater will offer services to small Los Angeles County theaters to strengthen their producing capabilities and increase their visibility and audiences.

Ford's Theatre Society
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support the development and production of a newly commissioned work about Abraham Lincoln's presidency by playwright James Still. The project will be produced during the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln's birth in 2008-2009.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Bronx Bus tour (working title), a theatrical piece that will take place entirely on a bus touring the South Bronx.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support Shake at the Lake. Free outdoor performances of a fully mounted Shakespeare production will be presented on Lake Lawn in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, a new play by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Stuart Carden. The playwright will be in residence at Silk Road Theatre Project during the rehearsal process for continued development of the script.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (aka The Acting Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production and national tour of Moby Dick Rehearsed, a 1950s work by Orson Welles, adapted from Herman Melville's classic novel. The Acting Company production will be directed by Casey Biggs.

Guthrie Theatre Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support a production of Peer Gynt, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's verse drama by award-winning American poet Robert Bly. The production will be directed by Tim Carroll and will feature internationally acclaimed actor and director Mark Rylance in the title role.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$25,000
To support the development and English-language premiere of Zerlina's Tale, translated and adapted by Jeremy Sams from the story by Hermann Broch. The production will be directed by artistic director Michael Wilson.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Incorporated
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work about water stewardship titled Beneath the Surface, directed by artistic director Sandy Spieler. The production will encourage civic engagement and examine local watershed and water quality issues through video, music, original puppetry, and masks.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (aka HERE Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development of new work in the HERE Artist Residency Program. Mid-career performing and visual artists and collaborative teams are nurtured through cross-disciplinary exchange, workshops, panel discussions, career development services, and productions.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the Today's Artists, Tomorrow's Works Program. The project will include a playwrights' fellows program, the Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings, and a world premiere by program alumnus Sinan Unel.

id Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. Emerging and professional playwrights will work with student playwrights from rural Idaho to develop new plays culminating in a series of fully staged readings with audience talkback sessions.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the commissioning of playwright Allison Moore to adapt Willa Cather's novel My Ántonia for the stage. Executive producing director Michael Robins will oversee the process through a series of readings, workshops, and a developmental production in the 2008 Fresh Ink new play series.

Imagination Stage, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$15,000
To support the stage adaptation of the children's novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, with accompanying educational activities. Imagination Stage and Seattle Children's Theatre will co-commission playwright David S. Craig to create a vital addition to the canon of children's theatrical literature for the stage.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
To support the production of plays in repertory by playwright-in-residence James Still, with accompanying community outreach activities. Artistic director Janet Allen will direct Looking Over The President's Shoulder and Timothy Douglas will direct Iron Kisses.

InterAct, Inc. (aka InterAct Theatre Company)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the world premiere of Efrat from Afar by playwright Larry Loebell as the centerpiece of a festival of new plays. Panel discussions and readings of new and contemporary plays that explore American perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will occur in conjunction with the production.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of June in a Box by playwright Octavio Solis and the Campo Santo resident theater ensemble, with accompanying educational activities. Based on the Mexican ballad El Corrido De June Robles, the play recounts the true story of the kidnapping of a young girl in Tucson.

Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc. (aka The Irish Rep)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and adaptation for the stage of Peter Quinn's novel Banished Children of Eve. Commissioned writers of Irish American and African American background will partner to adapt the work, to be directed by producing director Ciaran O'Reilly.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support the creation, development, and presentation of works-in-progress in the Electric Performance Lab. Company artists will create and develop original pieces using the Critical Response Process developed by choreographer Liz Lerman.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka KC Rep)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the production of Gee's Bend by Elizabeth Gregory, to be directed by Marion McClinton. Accompanying educational and community outreach activities will include post-performance forums with a scholar, cast members, and the play's design team.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the New Works Festival, featuring a full production of a new work and a series of staged readings. The festival will include the Playwrights Under Progress Festival (PUP Fest), which offers local high school playwrights developmental workshops and staged readings of their original short plays.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. (aka La MaMa E.T.C.) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation and premiere of Seven, a documentary theater piece. Produced in partnership with Vital Voices Global of Washington, DC, the piece will bring together the stories of seven women in developing countries around the world.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. (aka La MaMa E.T.C.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a new adaptation of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. Founding artistic director Ellen Stewart will create a new text derived from Greek mythology.

LAByrinth, Inc. (aka LAByrinth Theater Company)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the annual New Play Development Programs. Activities will include the Summer Intensive retreat, the Barn Series Festival of staged readings, and Developmental Productions of new works-in-progress.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc. (aka Ma-Yi Theater Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the world premiere of Three Vampires: A Parable of the Philippines by Jessica Hagedorn and directed by Ping Chong.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (aka Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation and production of Finn, a digital and live action adventure based on the ancient legend of Finn McCool. Co-artistic director Sharon Fogarty will work with the Czech digital animation artists of Misha Films, Irish playwright Jocelyn Clarke, and Scottish composer Phil Cunningham.

Madcap Productions, Inc. (aka Madcap Puppet Theatre)
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
To support Hats Off, a regional puppet theater series of original works for young audiences. The series will feature productions of new puppet plays and will offer workshops in puppet building and other educational activities for the general public and students in grades K-6.

Madison Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Madison Rep)
Madison, WI
$10,000
To support a production of Permanent Collection by Thomas Gibbons. The project will be directed by Richard Corley and performed at Madison's new Overture Center for the Arts.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the world premiere of Tir-Na-Nog (Land of Youth) by Irish novelist and playwright Edna O'Brien. Artistic director Chris Smith will direct the play.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc. (aka MTC)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development of work by emerging and established playwrights in the Artistic Development Program. Script evaluation, readings, commissions, and dramaturgy will further new plays and musicals toward full-scale productions.

Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support Love Person by Aditi Kapil, one of the Three-Way National New Play Network World Premiere productions. Director Gia Forakis will direct the production, with accompanying outreach activities.

Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Marsh Performance Initiative including the creation of new work, training, and the Festival of New Voices. The year-long performance development program will focus on both creating performances and the production/business of theater.

McCarter Theater
Princeton, NJ
$25,000
To support the world premiere of Edward Albee's Me, Myself and I. Artistic director Emily Mann will direct the newly commissioned play by one of America's leading playwrights.

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Mettawee River Company)
Salem, NY
$15,000
To support the tour of an original play based on the The Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Artistic director Ralph Lee will direct and design the production with masks, puppets, and giant figures.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the premiere of The Night Is a Child (A Notre E Uma Criancha) by playwright Charles Randolph-Wright. Timothy Douglas will direct the production, with accompanying educational activities.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
To support the commissioning, development, and world premieres of Love Person by Aditi Kapil and Red Ink by Rhiana Yazzie and Native American playwrights. Artistic director Jack Reuler will serve as producer and Liz Engelman will serve as dramaturg for both productions, with accompanying outreach activities.

Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the development and production of Fair Lake by artistic director Sharon Greene. Composer Mikhail Fiksel and director and choreographer Birgitta Victorson will participate in a series of workshops to explore the sound, music, and movement elements of the new work.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support international theater presentations for children. The project represents the 12th season of theater programming for young audiences at the New Victory Theater, with accompanying educational activities.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the development of new work for the theater in the Playwrights Lab. The core developmental initiative will support resident playwrights through writer-driven readings and a workshop series.

New Jersey Repertory Company
Long Branch, NJ
$10,000
To support the world premiere of And Her Hair Went With Her by Zina Camblin. Artistic director SuzAnne Barabas will oversee the production and casting and select the director.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a production of The Bacchae by Euripides at the Public Theater. Based on a translation by Nicholas Rudall, the production will be created and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis and will feature original music by Philip Glass.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the New York premiere of Things of Dry Hours by Naomi Wallace. The playwright is a member of Usual Suspects, the theater's community of affiliate artists.

Northwestern University Settlement (on behalf of The Vittum Theater)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the world premiere production of The Blue House by Jos Cruz Gonzlez at the Vittum Theater. Commissioned by the Chicago Humanities Festival, the production will be part of an annual Season for Young Audiences and will be directed by Tom Arvetis.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the creation and production of I Wish It Were True, a new non-narrative theater work written and directed by Richard Foreman. The piece will utilize film tableaux as a continual backdrop for live performances.

Open Channels New York, Inc. (aka Dixon Place)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Mondo Cane! Commissioning Program at Dixon Place. The project will provide commissions, development, and production support to emerging theater artists.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$45,000
To support a production of The Clay Cart directed by Bill Rauch. The piece is an English translation of a classic Sanskrit romantic drama adapted for the stage by A.L. Basham.

Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ
$15,000
To support a production of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Multidisciplinary project activities will include mainstage performances, a visual arts gallery exhibit, and educational outreach activities to promote lifelong learning.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$35,000
To support the production of Gem of the Ocean by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Founder and artistic director Lou Bellamy will direct the Midwest premiere production.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$35,000
To support the world premiere of Crispin, adapted by playwright Russell Davis from the 2003 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Crispin: The Cross of Lead by author Avi. Andy Belser, artistic director of The Gravity Project theater company, will direct the production with accompanying educational activities.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$30,000
To support a production of Yellowman by Dael Orleandersmith and the Alaskan premiere of The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel. Flordelino Lagundino will direct Yellowman, and David Charles Goyette will direct Vogel's play.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the commissioning and development of works in the New Plays Project-Year III. The project will also support the world premiere of The Happiness Lecture by theater artist Bill Irwin, with direction by Nancy Harrington.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support a production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 stage play Amadeus. Producing artistic director Ted Pappas will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the American Voice developmental program for theater and musical theater writers and the production of a play or musical in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The program includes an open-door script submission policy, play readings, and musical theater staged readings.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the development of new work in the Ruth Easton Lab. Producing artistic director Polly Carl will direct the lab's play development activities that culminate in the Writer/Director Series and the annual Play Labs Festival.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Sometimes a Great Notion, adapted for the stage from Ken Kesey's novel by Aaron Posner. Playwright, co-founder, and resident director of Philadelphia's award-winning Arden Theatre Company, Posner will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach programs.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support the world premiere production of Magnetic North by William Donnelly. The production will be directed by Richard Hamburger.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. (aka Pregones Theater)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support the development and production of Storied Lives, a new Latino play with music. The ensemble will adapt the piece from Vivir del Cuento by Puerto Rican literary icon Manuel Ramos Otero.

Present Theatre Company, Inc. (aka The Present Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will allow artists and arts organizations the opportunity to present work to a broad audience in a variety of venues.

Primary Stages Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the New York premiere production of Something You Did by Willy Holtzman. The production will play at 59E59 Theaters, a new theatrical complex on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Providence Black Repertory Company (aka Black Rep)
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of The Etymology of Bird, a new play by Zakiyyah Alexander. The production will be directed by Megan Sandberg- Zakian.

Quantum Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the development and production of Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Melanie Dreyer. The production will incorporate the flamenco artistry of Carolina Loyola-Garcia into a classic folk tragedy about the power of women in a rural community.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the development of Dream Masons, a large-scale, site-specific outdoor spectacle. The piece will be performed on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago's historic Bronzeville neighborhood.

Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
To support the development and production of Raising Medusa, a new play by playwright Barbara Lau. The play will be based on a collection of Lau's own poems about a rocky relationship between a mother and teenage daughter.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the world premiere of In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell McCraney at the Alliance Theater, with accompanying educational activities and a play reading series. Tina Landau will direct and collaborate with McCraney to develop the creative team of production designers and artists.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of The Book Club Play by Karen Zacaras. The production will be directed by Nick Olcott.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the revival and production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, adapted for the stage by playwright Christopher Hampton in 1985 from French author Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 novel. Rufus Norris will direct the production, with accompanying educational activities.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the creation, workshop production, and world premiere of After Before, with accompanying educational activities. Founder and co-producing artistic director Shawn Sides will direct, and playwright Kirk Lynn will oversee the ensemble development process with the creative team of playwright Rebecca Beegle and directors Barney O'Hanlan and Carlos Trevino.

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research (aka Sandglass Theater)
Putney, VT
$15,000
To support the creation and production of Ballad and the presentation of the sixth International Puppet Festival, Puppets in the Green Mountains. Artistic directors Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass will create a theater work that combines ballads and puppetry to be presented at the festival.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (aka SITI Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the development and premiere of a new SITI Company-created work currently titled Hemispheric Disturbances at Arizona State University. The play will feature company actors and the design team of James Schuette, Darron L. West, and Brian Scott.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Busytown, adapted by Kevin Kling from the book What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Linda Hartzell will direct the production with music and lyrics by Kling and Michael Koerner.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support a production of The Breach, a new play by Catherine Filloux, Tarrell McCraney, and Joe Sutton. The production will be directed by artistic director David Esbjornson.

Seven Loaves, Inc. (aka GOH Productions) (on behalf of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support The History of Queen Ester, of King Ahasverus & Haughty Haman, an interdisciplinary marionette work adapted by artistic director Vit Horejs from an 18th-century biblical play. Designer Jakub Kuba Kreci will create the puppets, and the team of Emily Wilson and Michelle Beshaw will build additional marionettes for the production, with music by Jeff Warshauer.

Seven Stages, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the world premiere production of A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage. The production will be directed by Crystal Dickinson.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company)
Washington, DC
$45,000
To support the Roman Repertory project. A production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar directed by David Muse will be performed in repertory with a production of Antony and Cleopatra directed by artistic director Michael Kahn.

Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the development and production of Paradise Park by playwright-in-residence Charles Mee. Directed by Daniel Fish, the production will be the third in a season-long exploration of the playwright's work.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of Medea, an interdisciplinary project based on the play by Euripides and fragments of ancient texts. Using several styles of puppetry, live performers, video, live music, and unique scenic elements, the project will explore international politics in the 21st century.

Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the development and production of For Better, a new play by Eric Coble. The project is part of the National New Play Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund (CLNPF), and will be directed by Gary Rucker.

Southern Utah University (on behalf of Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Cedar City, UT
$20,000
To support a production of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. The production will be directed by Brad Carroll.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a production of Carter's Way, a new play written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. The production will feature live vocals and recorded instrumentation created and arranged by Darrell Leonard.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support productions of The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney and the 2006 Tony award-winning play The History Boys by Alan Bennett, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Bosnian-born director/playwright Tea Alagic will direct McCraney's work, and founding artistic director Joy Zinoman will direct Bennett's work.

SU Theatre Corporation (aka Syracuse Stage)
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support a production of The Bomb-Itty of Errors written by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, Gregory Qaiyum, and Erik Weiner, with music by Jeffrey Qaiyam. The production will be directed by Andy Goldberg at Syracuse Stage.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc. (aka Sundance Theatre)
Park City, UT
$35,000
To support the development of new work for the stage by emerging and mid-career theater artists in the July Theatre Lab to be directed by producing artistic director Philip Himberg. The lab will provide an environment and the resources to advance new play scripts toward full productions.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and premiere of Imminence at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. Artistic director Paul Zimet will direct and lead the creative team of founding member and composer Ellen Maddow, composer Peter Gordon, and video artist Kit Fitzgerald.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new musical adaptation of Aristophanes' The Frogs. The production will feature a new translation and an original score and libretto, and will be directed by artistic director David Herskovits.

The Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the development and world premiere productions of Mr. Fujiyama's Electric Beach by Kevin Oakes and Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan. Both productions will be directed by artistic director Rob Melrose.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a production of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, with accompanying educational activities. Darko Tresnjak, artistic director of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival, will direct, with Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Christine Baranski in the lead role.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and production of The Iliad Project: No Dogsbody. The work will be developed by director Ong Keng Sen and playwright Erik Ehn in collaboration with the Yugen ensemble.

TimeLine Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the development and production of The Odd Women. Playwright Kate Fodor will adapt the work from the novel by George Gissing.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
To support the development and world premiere of Bloody Blackbeard by Preston Lane, with original music by Laurelyn Dossett. The play will serve as the centerpiece for Theatre 232, a festival created in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the world premiere of A House with No Walls by Thomas Gibbons. The play is a project of the National New Play Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund (CLNPF).

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (aka Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the Arthur Miller Festival at Arena Stage. The festival will feature productions of Death of a Salesman directed by Tim Bond and A View from the Bridge directed by Daniel Aukin, performed in rotating repertory by a single ensemble cast.

William Inge Festival Foundation (aka William Inge Center for the Arts)
Independence, KS
$15,000
To support Guest Artist Residencies at the William Inge Center for the Arts. The project will introduce professional directors and actors to playwrights-in-residence to collaborate on readings, workshops, and the development of new plays.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support further development and production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and a commission to choral composer Toby Twining. Co-artistic director Blanka Zizka will direct the production, with accompanying educational activities.

Women's Project & Productions
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the professional careers of emerging women theater artists in the Developmental Theater Programs. Individual components will include the Directors Lab, the Playwrights Lab, and the Producers Lab.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the continued development and world premiere of Stunning by David Adjimi, who will be in residence at the theater during the play's rehearsal period. Artistic director Howard Shalwitz will lead the dramaturgical team, with direction by regional and national director Anne Kauffman.

Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development, rehearsals, and a work-in-progress presentation of 172 South (working title). Founder Elizabeth LeCompte will direct the work.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$30,000
To support the world premiere of The Evildoers by David Adjimi at Yale Repertory Theatre. Rebecca Taichman, associate director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, will direct the production.

Young Playwrights Inc. (aka Young Playwrights Festival)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival. Plays will be selected through a national open-submission playwriting competition.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the third phase of the Western Presenters' Commissioning Initiative. In partnership with Lensic Arts of Santa Fe, Z Space will lead performing arts presenters in the commissioning, development, and touring of new theatrical works.

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