2010 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 12, 2009 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

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

Musical Theater

Academy for New Musical Theatre
North Hollywood, CA
$15,000
To support the Academy Repertory Company Concert Reading Series. The program features concert readings of new works of musical theater in development.

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development of new musicals through the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab Series and workshop productions. The works in development will cover a broad range of subject matter and styles and support the theater's mission of celebrating diversity and minority perspectives, and its commitment to youth programming.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a production of Sunday in the Park with George, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. Producing artistic director Terrence J. Nolan will direct.

Artists Repertory Theatre (aka Artists Rep)
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the development and production of Gracie and the Atom by Portland playwright and composer Christine McKinley. The production will be promoted through the theater's education and outreach program Actors to Go, which features student matinees, artists in classrooms, and post-show discussions.

Barrington Stage Company Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
$60,000
To support the Musical Theatre Lab. The program provides emerging composers, lyricists, and book writers the opportunity to develop new works of musical theater in a supportive environment with an experienced management team.

Cities at Peace Inc. (aka City at Peace)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and production of a new, original work of musical theater written and performed by a cast of New York City teenagers. The script will be developed from participants' life stories and will focus on communicating their ideas for change.

Coterie, Inc. (aka Coterie Theatre)
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
To support the production of two new musicals in the Lab for New Family Musicals. The Broadway team of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell and their co-bookwriter Jeffrey Hatcher will premiere a Theater For Young Audiences (TYA) version of Lucky Duck, a rock/blues version of the story The Ugly Duckling and composer/writer team, Douglas Parker and Denver Casado will premiere their Mark Twain autobiographical musical, Life on the Mississippi.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$35,000
To support a revival of It's a Bird. . . It's a Plane. . . It's Superman with music and lyrics by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams. Using original songs from the 1966 Broadway musical, the production will be re-envisioned with a new book by playwright and comic book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc. (aka Goodspeed Musicals)
East Haddam, CT
$30,000
To support the development and world premiere of BAND GEEKS! with book by Tommy Newman and Gordon Greenberg and music and lyrics by Gaby Alter, Mark Allen, and Tommy Newman. Gordon Greenberg will direct the production in the Norma Terris Theatre with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Hudson Vagabond Puppets, Inc.
Blauvelt, NY
$12,000
To support the rebuilding of the 1987 production Guess Who Signed the Constitution conceived by Lois Bohovesky, book and lyrics by Bernie Garzia, and music by Andrew Wilder. Artistic director Edward Winslow will direct with new puppets designed by Peter Bohovesky.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka The Rep)
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of Venice, a new hip-hop musical by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax. The piece addresses the complexities of ethnic differences and conflict in the contemporary world, using Shakespeare's Othello as a narrative template.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support development of Dark Sisters by composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam. The musical is a modern day fairy tale inspired by the teachings of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, media interviews, and the wives of Joseph Smith.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
To support the 22nd annual Festival of New Musicals and Fall Conference. The festival and conference will bring together musical theater writers and industry professionals with the goal of developing and nurturing new musicals.

New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the world premiere of The Kid, a new musical with music by Andy Monroe, lyrics by Jack Lechner, and libretto by Michael Zam. The musical will be based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by Dan Savage.

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
$20,000
To support the development and production of Not Wanted on the Voyage, a new musical by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill based on the novel by the late Timothy Findley. The musical is a post-modern fable about the end of the world told through the lens of the biblical apocalypse, the Great Flood.

Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$40,000
To support the world-premiere production of Whisper House, a new musical with music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow and directed by Keith Powell. Educational and outreach activities will accompany the production.

Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ
$15,000
To support the production of the musical Peter Pan with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Mark S. Hoebee will direct with music by Mark Charlap, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, choreography by Patti Colombo, and additional music by Jule Styne and additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

Prospect Theater Company Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of The Hidden Sky by Kate Chisholm and Peter Foley. Book writer Kate Chisholm will direct.

Red Mountain Theatre Company
Birmingham, AL
$12,000
To support the partnership of Red Mountain Theatre Company, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Southern Museum of Flight, and Better Basics to produce the new musical Barnstormer with accompanying educational activities. The musical portrays the life of pioneering African American aviatrix Bessie Coleman and features music by Douglas J. Cohen and books and lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the development and tour of a musical comedy titled Make or Break. The Tony Award-winning company will develop and produce an entertaining comedy that explores the connection between the need for alternative energy and the creation of new jobs.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$40,000
To support the development and world premiere of Sycamore Trees as part of American Musical Voices Project new work development series. Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member and nationally acclaimed director Tina Landau will direct the musical with music and lyrics by Ricky Ian Gordon.

Southern Utah University (on behalf of Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Cedar City, UT
$25,000
To support a production of Great Expectations, a new musical based on the novel by Charles Dickens adapted by Margaret Hoorneman. The musical features a book by Brian VanDerWilt and Steve Lozier, music by Richard Winzeler, lyrics by Steve Lane, and direction by Jules Aaron.

Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
To support the development and world premiere production of a bilingual tango musical created and directed by Angel Gil Orrios with music by Latin Grammy winner Raul Jaurena. The piece will be based on the collaboration between two famous Argentinean masters: writer Jorge Luis Borges and composer Astor Piazzolla and will explore the origins of tango and its characters.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$55,000
To support the New Works Initiative. The program will foster the development of new plays and musicals through readings and workshops, a writer's retreat, the annual New Works Festival, and full productions of world premieres.

Transport Group
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the world premiere of Queen of the Mist, a new musical with music, book, and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa. Artistic Director Jack Cummings III will direct.

Unity Theatre Ensemble
Florissant, MO
$10,000
To support the continued development, refinement, and production of The Cotton Club Revue. The piece highlights popular artists, music, songs, and dances from the history of New York's Cotton Club.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$45,000
To support the final development and production of a new musical Gypsy King by composer, lyricist, and book writer Randy Rogel to be directed by artistic director Steve Tompkins. The musical is a clever, fast-paced comedy with themes of love, innocence, home, and family.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support for the development and Lab Production of a new American musical, The Scottsboro Boys. Susan Stroman will choreograph and direct the work with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and book by David Thompson.

VORTEX Repertory Company
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support a musical theatre adaptation of Sleeping Beauty by award-winning artists Bonnie Cullum and Content Love Knowles. Originally created and debuted in 2005, the production will feature new music and revised script and score.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (aka Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the production of Tony Award-winning Sophisticated Ladies conceived by Donald McKayle with music by Duke Ellington, choreography by Maurice Hines, and direction by associate artist Charles Randolph-Wright. As part of the Arena Restaged Festival of American Voices, the musical will be produced in the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

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