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.

Theater

13 Playwrights, Inc. (aka 13P)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a production of The Zero Hour, a new play by Madeleine George. The play will be the 10th production by the company whose finite goal is to produce 13 plays, one by each of its 13 mid-career member playwrights.

A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and world premiere of In the Maze of Our Own Lives. Playwright and founding ensemble member Corey Fischer, Artistic Director Aaron Davidman, and filmmaker Sam Ball will create a mixed media theater piece based on the history of the Group Theater from 1931-1941.

About Face Theatre Collective (aka About Face Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the production and world premiere of Sally Oswald's Pony, directed by Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar, and a new production of Buchner's Woyzeck by Chicago's Hypocrites Theatre Company, to be directed by Artistic Director Sean Graney. Education and outreach activities will accompany each production.

About Productions, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
To support the development, workshop, and premiere of an original interdisciplinary theater work Evangeline, The Queen of Make-Believe. Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo will co-write the work and collaborate with Los Lobos songwriter/musician Louie Perez.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$35,000
To support the 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays, an annual showcase of theatrical work featuring American playwrights. Artistic Director Marc Masterson will program and oversee the signature event with accompanying educational and outreach events.

Actors' Shakespeare Project
Somerville, MA
$10,000
To support a co-production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Timon of Athens with Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Massachusetts, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The play will be directed by Bill Barclay, a resident member of both companies.

African-American Shakespeare Company
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the final development and world premiere of playwright Robert Henry Johnson's commissioned project The Othello Papers with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$20,000
To support the Southern Writers' Project. The program commissions, develops, and produces new works about the South and/or by southern playwrights.

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the world premiere of Intelligence Slave by Kenneth Lin.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the world premiere of The Tosca Project. The movement-based theatrical production will be co-created by Artistic Director Carey Perloff and choreographer Val Caniparoli.

American Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
To support the first extended U.S. run of the ensemble theater work Gatz. In collaboration with Elevator Repair Service, Artistic Director John Collins will direct the company's seven-hour theatrical presentation of the entire text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
To support a production of Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets to be directed by Daniel Fish, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The play will be staged in the Loeb Drama Center as part of Diane Paulus's inaugural season as the new artistic director.

Amherst College (aka Folger Shakespeare Library) (Consortium)
Amherst, MA
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Orestes: A Sly and Caustic Romp, adapted by Anne Washburn from the play by Euripides. Washington, DC's Folger Theatre, in partnership with Two River Theater Company, will debut Orestes, which will then travel to Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support a production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director David Ira Goldstein will direct the production and composer Christopher McGovern will create an original score.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company (aka The Rep)
Little Rock, AR
$10,000
To support Voices at the River, a biennial play development program for emerging Latino and African American playwrights. The program also will provide mentor opportunities to youth to develop playwriting skills.

Atlantic Theater Company
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Stage 2 New Play Development and Production Program. The program develops new works by emerging and established playwrights.

Barter Foundation, Incorporated State Theatre of Virginia (aka Barter Theatre)
Abingdon, VA
$15,000
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a new play based on the novel Where Trouble Sleeps by Clyde Edgerton. Playwright Catherine Bush will work with the theater's resident company of actors and artists to adapt the novel for the stage.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the world premiere production of Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, a new play by Naomi Iizuka. Associate Artistic Director Les Waters will direct the production.

Borderlands Theater Teatro Fronterizo, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support the development and production of There are No Roosters in the Desert, a new play by Kara Hartzel. Following the production's world premiere in Tucson in both Spanish and English, the play will be produced in Spanish at El Circulo Teatral in Mexico City.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (aka Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the adaptation and American debut production of the French puppet play The Grand Hand by Louis Emile Duranty. Project director and translator Stephen Carter will collaborate with Christine Carter, Northwest Puppet Center's co-artistic director, to adapt the play.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the puppet theater production of Paul Bunyan & the Tall Tale Medicine Show adapted from folktales by Artistic Director Jon Ludwig. Clint Thornton will direct the production.

Center Stage Associates, Inc. (aka CENTERSTAGE)
Baltimore, MD
$30,000
To support the American premiere of Let There Be Love, a new play by British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. The production will be accompanied by outreach opportunities, including post-show discussions and community engagement sessions.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (aka Center Theatre Group)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Lisa Kron's The Wake to be directed by Leigh Silverman. The theater will co-produce the new play in partnership with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Cherry Lane Alternative, Inc. (aka Cherry Lane Theatre)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 12th year of the Obie Award-winning Mentor Project.

Chicago Children's Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the adaptation and development of Brian Selznick's award-winning children's book The Houdini Box into a puppetry-based stage play. Adaptor Blair Thomas and composer Mark Messing will collaborate with Selznick on the development of the piece.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 31st Anniversary of developmental programs for new work by Chicago writers. The programs include The Saturday Series, the 10-Minute Workshop, the Private Reading Series, the First Draft Series, the Studio Project, and Instant Theatre.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the production of The Sins of Sor Juana, a new play by Karen Zacarías with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez will direct the play as the centerpiece of the Goodman Theatre's biennial Latino Theatre Festival.

Children's Theatre Company and School (aka Children's Theatre Company)
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the development and production of new works of theater for young audiences. The project will include the development of Swift Raid by The Civilians and a production of Happy End of the World by playwright Lloyd Suh.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$20,000
To support of the development and world premiere production of The Sun Serpent. Adapted from an Aztec legend by playwright José Cruz González, the play portrays the story of the conquest of Mexico from the point of view of its native peoples.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
To support the production of The Fall of Heaven, the first play by African American author Walter Mosley. Based on his book The Tempest Tales, the play tells the story of Tempest Landry, an African American who is accidentally killed by a white policeman.

City Theatre Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support the world premiere of When January Feels Like Summer by Cori Thomas. In a co-production with Florida Stage, Artistic Director Tracy Brigden and dramaturg Carlyn Aquiline will collaborate with Louis Tyrell and the playwright.

Civilians, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the development and workshop production of The Great Immensity, a theatrical project by writer/director Steve Cosson and composer Michael Friedman, with projections by filmmaker David Ford. The project examines the effects of climate change on the natural world through interviews with scientists and those experiencing the changes already occurring.

Classical Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Project Classic: Theatre in Public Housing, an audience development initiative. The project will bring a series of plays to a community center located in a major low-income housing project in Harlem.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and production of Wanderlust: A History of Walking, a new work based on the non-fiction book by Rebecca Solnit, which explores the disappearance of walking. Conceived and created by Matthew Earnest, the piece will be devised with an ensemble of actors.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 15th annual Summerworks '10 festival of new plays. The project will consist of full productions of new plays and an evening of thematically linked short pieces by different writers who will use New York's subway lines as their central focus.

Collaboraction Theatre Company, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 10th annual Sketchbook, a multidisciplinary festival of ultra-short world premiere plays. The plays are presented with live musical accompaniment and original works of art by collaborating visual artists.

Company of Fools
Hailey, ID
$15,000
To support the fourth annual Summer Fools Festival, which features three plays in rotating repertory with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The festival will feature a diverse mix of classics and new works featuring company members and guest artists from around the country.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (aka Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of Lil's 90th by Darci Picoult. The The Long Wharf Theatre production will be directed by Jo Bonney.

Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc.
Shepherdstown, WV
$10,000
To support the second production of Inana, a new play by Michele Lowe. Centered on the preservation of a 3,000-year-old statue of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inana, the play explores the importance of the preservation of culture through the preservation of its antiquities.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the development and production of the Justice Cycle Bridge Show, a community production developed in collaboration with playwright Naomi Iizuka. The play will be produced in partnership with Grand Performances, a Los Angeles-based presenter of free performing arts programs.

Court Theatre Fund (aka Court Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a production of Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, adapted by Tony Kushner. Artistic Director Charles Newell will direct the production.

Curious Theatre Company
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the world premiere production of Home By Dark, a new play by Denver playwright Terry Dodd. The production will be directed by Jamie Horton.

Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the world premiere productions of two new plays. The project will include a production of Marcus Gardley's ...and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, directed by Amy Mueller, and Eugenie Chan's Nightlight Bone to Pick, directed by Artistic Director Bob Melrose.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the development and production of Hard 2 Spel Dad, a new play for young adults by playwrights Linda Daugherty and Mary Rohde Scudday. The play will dramatize the conflicts and problems arising from dyslexia and other learning disabilities.

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$30,000
To support the production of Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit, adapted by Kenneth Albers to include deaf artists and deaf audiences. Through the development of an American Sign Language (ASL) script that augments the English language translation, the production will feature deaf and hearing actors telling the story through sign, gesture, and spoken English.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (aka Denver Center Theatre)
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support the world premiere of a commissioned adaptation of Eventide by Eric Schmiedl based on the novel by Kent Haruf. Artistic Director Kent Thompson will direct the Denver Center Theatre production, which will be accompanied by educational and outreach activities.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center (on behalf of Theater J)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival. The festival, sponsored by Theater J, will feature productions of new works by emerging playwrights.

Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of The Sun Also Rises, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel. Artistic Director John Collins will direct.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$75,000
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.

Exitheatre (aka EXIT Theatre)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 19th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival. The festival provides performance opportunities for emerging artists to perform and develop audiences for their work.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the development and production of new theater works in Ping Chong & Company's Undesirable Elements Series. The project is an ongoing series of documentary plays created in collaboration with communities that explores the evolving concepts of race, identity, and culture in America.

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc. (aka First Stage Children's Theater)
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
To support the adaptation and production of The Wiz for family audiences. First Stage Children's Theater will adapt the script, re-orchestrate the piece, create a new score, and record an accompaniment CD for use by other theaters nationwide.

Florida Studio Theatre, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$15,000
To support a production of Shotgun, a new play by John Biguenet. The production will be the play's third in a series of rolling premieres under the auspices of the National New Play Network.

Ford's Theatre Society
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support a revival of The Rivalry by Norman Corwin. The production will be directed by Mark Ramont.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a production of Alone on Stage: David Greenspan's Solos. The project will consist of three solo works for the stage by playwright and performer David Greenspan, which include The Argument, Stein's Plays, and The Myopia: an Epic Burlesque of Tragic Proportion.

Gas & Electric Arts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the development and production of Between Trains, a new play by Juanita Rockwell, with music and video by Chas Marsh, and lighting design by James Clotfelter. Artistic Director Lisa Jo Epstein will direct the production.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the creation and production of a world premiere adaptation based on Homer's Odyssey. Producing Artistic Director Richard Garner will adapt and direct the work, and original music will be composed by Kendall Simpson.

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a Silk Road Theatre production of Scorched by Lebanese Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad. The play will be translated from French by Canadian dramaturg Linda Gaboriau.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Ninth International Toy Theater Festival. The project will be presented at St. Ann's warehouse in Brooklyn.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (aka The Acting Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support The Acting Company's development of an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by commissioned playwright Kira Obolensky. Development will take place through a series of workshop productions directed by Will Pomerantz.

Guthrie Theatre Foundation (aka Guthrie Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support a production of David Henry Hwang's award-winning play M. Butterfly. Peter Rothstein, artistic director of Theater Latté Da, will direct the production, and Randy Reyes will play Song Liling, the Chinese opera diva who beguiles a French diplomat.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc. (aka Hartford Stage)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, adapted for the stage by playwright Laura Eason. Associate Artistic Director Jeremy Cohen will direct.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc. (aka In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the creation and production of Zenteotl: First Corn Energy. The In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre production will be written and designed by Deborah Ramos and directed by Artistic Director Sandy Spieler.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (aka HERE Arts Center)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the HERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program, directed by Artistic Director Kristin Marting. The project will support mid-career performing and visual artists working as collaborative teams.

House Theatre of Chicago (aka The House)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the development of new plays. The project will provide new works with development workshops and public staged readings.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the Today's Artists, Tomorrow's Works new play development program. The program will consist of the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program and the Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings.

id Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, with accompanying outreach activities. Artistic Director Jeni Mahoney will lead professional theater artists as they mentor their local counterparts, students, and community members in the artistic process.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (aka Cultural Odyssey)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the development and production of Frankie Baker -- An Immoral Ballad: The True Story of Frankie and Johnny. Co-Artistic Directors Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor will collaborate with writer Cecil Brown, and blues musician Taj Mahal to create the production.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc. (aka Illusion Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the development and premiere of an adaptation of My Ántonia by Allison Moore. Executive Producing Director Michael H. Robins will direct.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
To support the commission and development of April, 4 1968 by playwright-in-residence James Still. The play will be based on Senator Robert Kennedy's six-minute speech in Indianapolis on the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

InterAct, Inc. (aka InterAct Theatre Company)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the world premiere of When We Go Upon the Sea, a new play by Lee Blessing. The production will be directed by Paul Meshejian.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of Mirrors in Every Corner, a new play by Chinaka Hodge. The production will be directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Irondale Productions, Inc. (aka Irondale Ensemble Project)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the development and world premiere of Murrow's Boys and Their Descendants, a documentary play created by Artistic Director Jim Niesen with members of the Irondale Ensemble Project. The play will dramatize the creation of the CBS radio news division under Edward R. Murrow, interwoven with an exploration of the news habits of today's public.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support ReMixed and RePolished, a series of four original shows from the company's production history as part of its 25th anniversary season. The works will be restaged with the addition of new material and a re-envisioning of the original concepts.

Junebug Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the development and production of I Want My Money Back!, a multidisciplinary, multimedia project about the conditions in New Orleans resulting from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. The company will collaborate with Urban Bush Women of Brooklyn to develop a project about displaced, black New Orleans residents.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 12th annual New Works Festival. The project includes a mainstage production of a new work, staged readings, and a series of staged readings of short plays by high school students.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Middle East America Program. In partnership with Silk Road Theatre Project of Chicago, the company will create a program dedicated to providing a pipeline for plays by American writers of Middle Eastern descent.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Open Access Program. The project will provide selected playwrights access to development support and advancement efforts for their new works.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (aka Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and premiere of Corn, a new work by Julie Archer and Liza Lorwin. The project will feature film and photographic projections, narrative performance, live music, a live sound effects score, and static trapeze.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere of Oedipus El Ray by Luis Alfaro. Artistic Director Loretta Greco will lead the large cast to re-envision Sophocles' Oedipus as a contemporary Chicano story in California.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc. (aka MCC Theater)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of the world premiere of Side Effects by Michael Weller. Austin Pendleton will direct the production, with set design by Neil Patel and lighting design by Michelle Habeck.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
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 the world premiere of Sharr White's Sunlight. Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis will direct the 2008 Sky Cooper New American Playwright Prize-winning play.

McCarter Theatre
Princeton, NJ
$25,000
To support the world premiere production of Fetch Clay, Make Man by Will Power. The play examines the unlikely friendship between actor Stepin Fetchit and boxer Muhammad Ali.

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a revival of A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers. Originally produced on Broadway in 1918, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the play tells the story of a disillusioned young woman leaving New York to return to her family in the West after her money and luck have run out.

Miracle Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the West Coast premiere of El Quijote by Santiago García, based on the early 17th-century novel Don Quixote by Cervantes. Artistic Director Olga Sanchez will direct the piece.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the advancement of the theater's new play initiative. The project will give continued life to newly commissioned works by supporting early productions.

National Asian American Theatre Company
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a the world premiere of "A Play on War" based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, directed by Rubén Polendo. The production will feature an all Asian American cast.

Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the creation and world premiere of I Am a Camera by Artistic Director Greg Allen. The work will examine the human relationship to photography and images.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the presentation of theater works for young audiences by international and national companies. The productions will be accompanied by arts education programs, ancillary outreach activities, and paid job training programs for youth.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the development of new work for the theater in the Playwrights Lab. The initiative will support resident playwrights through writer-driven readings and a workshop series.

New Harmony Project, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
To support a two-week writers conference for new play development. Educational programs and opportunities for local residents to participate will also be offered.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of Freedom Club. The new work will be produced in collaboration with Adriano Shaplin and The Riot Group.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a production of Snake, a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater. The play examines the complex dynamic of an American family confronting the deteriorating effects of distance and time on their relationships.

Oregon Children's Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the adaptation and premiere of Small Steps by Louis Sachar. The play will be a sequel to Sachar's novel Holes, which also was successfully adapted for the stage.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$50,000
To support the development and world premiere production of American Night, a new piece by the theater ensemble Culture Clash to be directed by Jo Bonney. The project will be the first production in the company's American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, a decade-long public dialogue, commissioning, and production initiative.

Page Seventy-Three Productions, Inc. (aka Page 73)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the theater's early-career playwright development initiatives. Project components offer unproduced emerging playwrights tools to shepherd new plays from initial draft to production-ready script.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a collaboration with Teatro del Pueblo for the Women of Color Project. The project is designed to enhance the skills of female artists of color, and will culminate in a co-production of La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
$15,000
To support a production of Spunk, a play with music by George C. Wolfe, based on three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, with music by Chic Street Man. The production will be presented in the historic Bangor Opera House.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$20,000
To support the production of Stretch (a fantasia) by Susan Bernfields. Daniella Topol will direct.

Performance Space 122, Inc. (aka P.S. 122)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of new commissioned works. Planned projects include Ads by Richard Maxwell and Gin and It by Reid Farrington.

Perishable Theater
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the 15th International Women's Playwriting Festival, led by Executive Artistic Director Vanessa Gilbert. The festival is a one-act play competition that results in world premiere productions, a printed anthology of the winning scripts, and a week-long development workshop of a full-length play written by a former festival winner.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$15,000
To support a production of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Emma Griffin, and the world premiere of Luan Schooler's The Blue Bear, directed by Leon Ingulsrud.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the fifth year of the New Plays Project, an ongoing program that commissions and develops new plays and theater pieces for national audiences. The project will include the world premiere of Golden Age by Terrence McNally and the continuing STAGES New Play Series.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the creation of Cankerblossom, a new work of stop-motion animation, projection, and live performance. The project will result from a multi-year investigation of the world of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Play Production Company, Inc. (aka The Play Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the New Works/New World production series, which features early productions of new American and international plays. The project will include the American premiere of Enjoy by Toshiki Okada, translated by Aya Ogawa and directed by Dan Rothenberg.

PlayPenn, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the 2010 Summer Conference Workshops. After a rigorous selection process, playwrights will be invited to develop specific plays through workshops with directors, dramaturgs, and actors.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival brings professional and emerging playwrights from diverse aesthetic and cultural backgrounds together with other arts professionals in an intensive creative process to develop new work.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the American Voice artistic development program. The project will include script evaluation, developmental play readings, musical theater staged readings, and a production of a new play by an American writer.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the year-long Ruth Easton Lab. The project fosters the development of new work by the center's Core Writers through multi-day workshops offered throughout the year.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the 12th annual JAW (Just Add Water): Playwrights Festival. The festival supports playwrights in the development of new works to enhance the repertoire of the American theater.

Portland Stage Company, Inc.
Portland, ME
$10,000
To support a production of Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard, directed by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj. Considered one of Fugard's masterpieces, the play examines views of race, relationships, and family dynamics, as well as education.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$35,000
To support the development and production of Piojos/Fly-Babies, a new bilingual comedy about lice. The script will be adapted from Caribbean, Latin American, and Latino folktales, folk wisdom, and popular culture.

Present Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
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.

Quantum Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the a creation and production of a play based on the 1981 novel The Howling Miller, by Finnish writer Arto Paasilinna. The work will be created collaboratively by Artistic Director Karla Boos, director Peter Duschenes, and actor Tristan Farmer.

Quest:arts for everyone, Inc. (Consortium)
Lanham, MD
$20,000
To support QuestFest, a two-week international festival of theater. The project will include a series of community engagements to promote visual theater and encourage the participation of hearing and deaf people in the artistic process.

Rattlestick Productions, Inc. (aka Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the premiere of a new trilogy of plays by playwright Adam Rapp at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The plays will be presented in a repertory run that includes Hallway, Paraffin, and Nursing.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and the world premiere of the winning production, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi. The competition invites final year graduate students from MFA programs across the country to submit their best work, resulting in a production of the winning play.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$30,000
To support the production of My Name Is Asher Lev adapted by Aaron Posner from Chaim Potok's novel. A co-production with Delaware Theatre Company, the production will be part of the theater's Literary Works Project, bringing a fresh modern perspective to a classic piece of literature.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (aka San Diego REP)
San Diego, CA
$20,000
To support a residency by Latino theater troupe Culture Clash to create new works. Ensemble members Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas will rehearse and perform a newly revised version of Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, and develop, design, and perform the world premiere of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research
Putney, VT
$20,000
To support the tour of Bad Weather Ballads, a new company-created work of puppet theater. The production will tour to non-traditional theater venues in rural regions of the United States.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (aka SITI Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and premiere of Empire of Light, a new work written by Jocelyn Clarke. The production will be directed by SITI Company founder Anne Bogart.

Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Inc. (aka Sautee Nacoochee Center)
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
$20,000
To support the continued development of Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between. The Sautee Nacoochee Center will re-conceive and remount the original community-based performance piece performed in 2009.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the world-premiere production of In the Northern Lands: Norse Myths, a dramatization of Nordic Myths as told by Carole Shieber. Artistic Director Linda Hartzell and dramaturg Rita Giomi co-created the work with Shieber, a renowned storyteller of Nordic Myth.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the world premiere production of Year Zero, by Michael Golamco. The play is about reincarnation, reinvention and ultimately redemption.

Seven Stages, Inc. (aka 7 Stages)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the production of the English translation of Bernard Marie Koltès' The Day of Murders in the History of Hamlet. The production will be the second in a ten-year project established to translate and produce six of Koltès' plays.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the production of two Shakespeare plays in rotating repertory. Artistic Director Michael Kahn will direct Richard II, and Associate Artistic Director David Muse will direct Henry V.

Shotgun Players, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the development of Beardo, a new play by Jason Craig based on the life of Rasputin (1869-1916). Music will be composed by Dave Malloy.

Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of The Story of a Family, the tentatively titled third segment of Horton Foote's epic masterwork The Orphans' Home Cycle. The play will be co-produced with Hartford Stage.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Soho Rep)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support new play development programs. The Writer/Director Lab and the Soho Rep Studio will be led by Artistic Director Sarah Benson and co-chairs Katherine Ryan and Daniel Manley.

Soho Think Tank, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Ice Factory 2010. Robert Lyons, founder and artistic director, and Erich Jungwirth, producing director, will direct the Obie award-winning annual summer festival of new work.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$40,000
To support the 13th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. The festival will include world premiere productions and workshop readings of new plays.

Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support the presentation of Ameriville by Universes, in partnership with Junebug Productions and Tulane University, and the development and production of With A Bang by Pete McElligott. The projects are designed to develop new audiences through dynamic theatrical experiences and generate audience and artistic crossover between the partner organizations.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the world premiere production of A Parallelogram by Bruce Norris. Tony Award-winning ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro will direct the company-commissioned work.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production of David Mamet?s American Buffalo.

SU Theatre Corporation (aka Syracuse Stage)
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
To support a production of August Wilson's Fences, directed by Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond. The Syracuse Stage production will be accompanied by educational and outreach programming.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc. (aka Sundance Theatre Program)
Park City, UT
$75,000
To support the Sundance Theatre Lab for the development of new work by emerging and mid-career theater artists. The Sundance Theatre Program Lab provides an environment and the resources to advance new play scripts toward full productions.

Sweet Jane Productions, Inc. (aka International WOW)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the development and production of A Place to Live, a new play by Artistic Director Josh Fox. The International WOW Company play will be loosely based on the themes and ideas in Anton's Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

Swine Palace Productions, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
To support a production of Self Defense...Or Death of Some Salesmen by Carson Kreitzer. The project will be directed by Associate Artistic Director George Judy.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and production of Walk, a new play created in collaboration with playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. The piece will be directed by Founding Artistic Director Paul Zimet.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and production of The Really Big Once, an exploration of the collaboration between director Elia Kazan and playwright Tennessee Williams on Camino Real. The company-created work will be based on notebooks, letters, memoirs, drafts, interviews, and recollections.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the world premiere of Bass for Picasso, a new play by Kate Moira Ryan. The cast for the production will feature a mix of able-bodied and disabled actors.

Theater Labrador, Inc. (aka New Georges Theater)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Spark Project, a fully staged production comprised of "sparks" of other newly commissioned works. New Georges Theater will commission and develop stand-alone excerpts or one-act versions of larger works to be presented as a full-length production.

Theater Mu Incorporated (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a production of Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang. Artistic Director Rick Shiomi will direct the production.

Theater Oobleck
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the development and production of The Hunchback Variations Singspiel, a new work by playwright Mickle Maher and composer Mark Messing. The piece will be adapted from Maher's play The Hunchback Variations, a play based on a musical form and concerned with the creation of sound.

Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County (aka La Jolla Playhouse)
La Jolla, CA
$25,000
To support a fully staged production of Shah Mat. A new play by Naomi Iizuka, the piece will explore the way in which recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the city of San Diego.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a production of Love is My Sin, a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, adapted for the theater and directed by Peter Brook. The work will be performed by Bruce Meyers and Natasha Parry.

Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of The American Capitalism Project, a new ensemble-based theatrical work directed by Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin. The project will include a development period in Las Vegas and performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in New York.

Thick Description (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the American premiere of The Solitary, an original Arabic-language production created by Al-Khareef Theatre Troupe.

Third Rail Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support a final workshop and world premiere production of The Gray Sisters by Craig Wright. The production will be directed by Producing Artistic Director Slayden Scott Yarbrough and performed by company members.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere of Providence Gap, a new play by Preston Lane with original music by Laurelyn Dossett. The project will be the centerpiece event for a summer festival produced in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support a production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Associate Director Brian McEleney will direct and star in the cast, comprised of company members and graduate students from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium.

Two River Theater Company
Red Bank, NJ
$15,000
To support a developmental workshop of The Wizard's Tempest, an original adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Artistic Director Aaron Posner will collaborate with magician Teller on the play's development.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the world premiere of Green Whales, a new play by Lia Romeo. Producing Artistic Director Cynthia Levin will direct the production.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc. (aka UMO Ensemble)
Vashon, WA
$10,000
To support the final development and performance of Zen Tales, a physical theater production based on a collection of teaching tales gathered from Chinese, Japanese, and Indian folklore. The work will be created by ensemble members and will feature mask, movement, puppets, aerial, tightrope, and other physical theater techniques.

Upstream Theater
St Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the adaptation and production of the Tragedy of the Death of Atahualpa, a drama from the Quechua oral tradition. The company will present an English translation of the work based on a 1950s adaptation by Bolivian writer Jesús Lara.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a production of The Lost Boys of Sudan by Lonnie Carter. The production will be directed by Jim Corti.

William Inge Festival Foundation (aka William Inge Center for the Arts)
Independence, KS
$35,000
To support play development workshops.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Language Rooms by Yussef El Guindi. Artistic Director Blanka Zizka will direct the production.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a production of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. The play uses Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as the departure point for an examination of the racial implications of urban gentrification.

Writers' Theatre
Glencoe, IL
$10,000
To support a production of The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. African American director Ron O.J. Parson will direct the play.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Rep)
New Haven, CT
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Compulsion by Rinne Groff. Oscar Eustis will direct the piece in a co-production between the Yale Rep and New York's Public Theater.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of Christians, a new experimental theater work by Young Jean Lee. Lee will write and direct the work in collaboration with a diverse ensemble of performers, designers, and choreographers through a series of workshops and readings.

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