2012 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ March 10, 2011 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Arts Education | 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

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the world premiere of The Good Private by Tanya Saracho. An adaptation of the life story of Albert Cashier, the play portrays a woman Irish immigrant who enlisted as a man in the Civil War, and afterwards chose to live the rest of her life as a man.

Actors Gang, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a re-imagined adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, created by actor, director, and Shakespeare expert Lisa Wolpe. Based in the physical traditions of commedia dell' arte, company members will create an intergenerational and multicultural production presented in The Actors' Gang Family Theater Summer Program for family audiences.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc. (aka Actors Theatre)
Louisville, KY
$80,000
To support the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, a showcase of new theatrical work featuring American playwrights. Actors Theatre will fully produce seven full-length plays, multiple ten-minute plays, and an anthology project written by multiple playwrights to be performed by its Acting Apprentice Company.

ALICE: Arts and Literacy in Children's Education (aka ALICE Arts)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support the development and production of From the Cradle: Family Stories of Iraqi Refugees and American Vets, an original performance work. The work will use video, mask work, puppetry, and lighting to portray the toll the Iraq War has taken on people's lives.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation (aka A.C.T.)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the West Coast premiere of Scorched by Lebanese-born Canadian playwright Wadji Mouawad, directed by artistic director Carey Perloff. Set in a fictional war-torn Middle Eastern country, the play explores the chaos and suffering caused by war, and the relationship between family and identity as it tells the story of immigrant twins who receive a surprising request in their late mother's will.

Arena Stage
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Mary T. & Lizzy K., a new play written and directed by Tazewell Thompson. Employing a non-linear story structure in which the audience watches the protagonists revisit and relive the past, the play is based on the relationship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her personal dressmaker and close confidante Elizabeth "Lizzy" Keckly, a former slave who bought her own freedom.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company (aka The Rep)
Little Rock, AR
$20,000
To support a production of William Inge's A Loss of Roses, directed by Austin Pendleton. One of Inge's rarely-produced works, the play tells the story of a young man's coming of age in America's heartland during the Great Depression.

Ars Nova Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Final Project, an evening of thematically-linked one-act plays and live music by members of the Ars Nova Play Group, a collective of emerging playwrights. Activities of the Play Group include script and scene readings of works-in-progress, and discussions that take place over a two-year period.

Bristol Riverside Theater Company
Bristol, PA
$18,000
To support the world premiere of A Raw Space by John Marans with direction by Susan D. Atkinson. The play depicts an interior design competition while exploring two career-driven contemporary relationships and the interplay between design and marriage.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
To support the development and performances with related educational activities of Ruth and the Green Book, a fully-staged puppet theater work adapted and directed by artistic director Jon Ludwig in collaboration with the book's author Calvin Alexander Ramsey. A combination of black light puppetry and animated projections will portray an African American family traveling from Illinois to Alabama in the Jim Crow era.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$55,000
To support the presentation of Gleam, an adaptation by Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God directed by Marion McClinton. This novel is considered one of the jewels of the Harlem Renaissance by one of America’s literary giants.

Chicago Children's Theatre
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the development of Red Kite by the Sea, a new theatrical installation for children and families impacted by Autism Spectrum Disorder. Inspired by the e.e. cummings poem maggie and milly and molly and may, the installation will immerse audiences in multisensory exploration of the seaside and aquatic life.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Readings and Workshops Program of new play development opportunities. Activities will include the Saturday Series of staged readings; the Ten Minute Workshop for engaging under-represented communities of playwrights; private readings of early drafts by network and resident playwrights; and the Deadline Workshop, which provides writers with the unique opportunity to develop work with a consistent company of actors.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support a production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, directed by Catalonian director Calixto Bieito. Considered Williams' most imaginative play, this hauntingly poetic allegory takes its audience to the mysterious Camino Real, a surreal netherworld populated by a colorful collection of lost souls anxious to escape, but terrified of the unknown wasteland lurking beyond the city's walls.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support a production of Harold and the Purple Crayon, adapted by Don Darryl Rivera from the book by Crockett Johnson, and the continued development of Fancy Dancer, a new work by Larissa FastHorse, commissioned by the theater. Harold and the Purple Crayon tells the story of a confident and resourceful child who guides us through the paradoxes of an alternate reality; Fancy Dancer is an autobiographical piece about the playwright's career as a Native American artist in the European art form of ballet.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
To support the production of Dead Accounts, a new play by Cincinnati native Theresa Rebeck. Commissioned by the theater, the play tells the story of the unexpected return of a prodigal son to his Cincinnati home, and his family's struggle to determine whether he is coming home or running away.

Collaboraction Theatre Company, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 12th annual SKETCHBOOK, a multidisciplinary theatre festival directed by executive artistic director Anthony Moseley. The festival combines experienced with up-and-coming artists in Chicago as a way of cultivating growth in the arts community while bringing these performances to a new, young audience.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (aka Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$20,000
To support the world premiere adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, adapted and directed by associate artistic director Eric Ting. This five-actor adaptation, in which Shakespeare's text is nearly intact, is set during the Vietnam War when the effects of the yet-to-be-identified post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was emerging in American soldiers.

Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc.
Shepherdstown, WV
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Dartmoor Prison by Carlyle Brown. The play explores historical events at a British prison during the War of 1812; specifically a group of imprisoned African American sailors who were faced with the option of remaining loyal to the United States or joining forces with the British.

Coterie Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the final development and production of The Red Badge of Courage Project, a new play by Melissa Cooper, directed by Metro Theater Company artistic director Carol North. This co-commission, the contemporary response to Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, follows five young American soldiers over the course of a year's deployment in a remote outpost and explores the experiences of combat soldiers at war and at home.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support a world premiere stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, adapted by Oren Jacoby and directed by Christopher McElroen. The production will introduce a new generation of theatergoers to Ellison's seminal novel about the African American experience in the 1940s.

Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the commission and world premiere of Tender Loin, written and directed by Annie Elias. The work will be about the people and places in the district where Cutting Ball Theater is located, developed through a compilation of interviews with neighborhood merchants, workers, and residents, woven into a documentary-style theater piece.

Dad's Garage, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the development and production of Wrath of Con and the creation of videos to engage online audiences. Integrating online video pieces with its play development process, the theater will create new works about people who attend the Atlanta-based Dragon Con, one of the world's largest science fiction conventions.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$10,000
To support The Mary Jane Project, an interactive installation and original theater work that will examine the culture surrounding marijuana, a crop of economic importance to the theater's home in Humboldt County, California. The project will consist of two components: an art installation by visual artist Michele McCall Wallace that will tour the region with company members collecting stories about local marijuana culture; and an original theater work created in conjunction with The Absynth Quintet.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Lisa Loomer's Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, directed by Wendy Goldberg. Featuring a large, multicultural cast, the play tells the story of a Seder dinner gone wrong, as the conversation drifts into a heated discussion of politics, religion, culture, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

East-West Players, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of The Three-Year Swim Club by Lee A. Tonouchi, directed by Keo Woolford. Rooted in the Hawaiian pidgin culture and language, the piece is based on the true story of a 1930s swim coach who trained swimmers in the irrigation ditches of Hawaii and led them to the Olympics; and will dramatize the action of swimming in the production through Hula.

El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$20,000
To support the commission, development, and production of Valley of the Heart by Luis Valdez. Research will be conducted at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to tell the true story of an inter-racial romance between a Japanese American woman and a Mexican farm worker during WWII; developmental steps will include a one-week script workshop, a public staged reading, and a music workshop with San Jose Taiko.

Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the development and premiere of a new ensemble theater work, directed by John Collins and written by Sibyl Kempson. In a departure from text-based methodology, the ensemble will create a devised work in which the writing, editing, and design are all actively in play throughout the rehearsal period.

Emerson College
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage to foster the creation of new work by offering residencies, rehearsal space, production facilities and support, and performance space on the campus of Emerson College in Boston. ArtsEmerson intends to work with the following ensembles: The Civilians, The Foundry Theatre, Elevator Repair Service, Theatre of the Emerging American Movement, and Phantom Limb Company.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$30,000
To support the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works by emerging and mid-career artists at the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. Approximately 1,600 manuscripts are received through an open-submission process that culminates in the selection of seven to ten plays and two to four musicals, that receive a rehearsal period and staged readings that are open to the public.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development and production of The Civil War Project (working title), an original multidisciplinary project by Ping Chong. Using historical text and imagery, personal biography, folklore and ghost stories as source material, the creation process will be a mix of historical research, first-hand interviews, and ensemble-based devising process.

Ford's Theatre Society (aka Ford's Theatre)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the world premiere of a new work by Richard Hellesen about Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, directed by Jennifer Nelson. The play will bring new light to the dynamic friendship between Lincoln and Douglass that helped shape Lincoln's views on slavery and the fair treatment of African Americans.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development of a new work that investigates the complex issue of racial profiling, co-created by Marcus Gardley and Melanie Joseph. Loosely based on the fatal police shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, development of the piece will involve interviews and consultations with community groups that center their activities around criminalization and racial profiling, including the Audre Lord Center, the Center for Immigrant Families, and the Justice Committee.

Fountain Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support the development and premiere of a new play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, directed by artistic director Stephen Sachs. New works under consideration include The Bird Watchers, which dramatizes the reunion of three old friends in South Africa, and Blue Iris, the intimate portrait of an elderly South African gentleman and his small grandson.

Geva Theatre Center, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
To support a production of Superior Donuts by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, directed by artistic director Mark Cuddy. The production will be the culmination of a trio of plays that illuminate issues of neighborhood integration and gentrification, including A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and a reading of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris.

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a world premiere production of Adriana Sevahn Nichols' Night Over Erzinga. Inspired by her Armenian grandparents' survival of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Nichols' multigenerational drama will shed light on the Ottoman Turkish genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917.

Golden Thread Productions
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the premiere production of ReOrient Festival of short plays exploring the Middle East, and a weekend forum of panels with leading experts and presentations on theater and the Middle East. The four-week run of fully produced new short plays, as well as ReOrient Forum, a weekend of talks, lectures, performances, showings, exhibitions, and other events, will take place at the Thick House and Theatre Artaud/Z Space in San Francisco.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (aka The Acting Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a production and tour of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, directed by Rob Melrose, artistic director and co-founder of The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco. Viewed through a modern lens, Julius Caesar will capture the excitement of the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

History Theatre, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
To support the final development and world premiere of Nellie by Kim Hines with direction by Richard D. Thompson. The play depicts the Minnesota civil rights and labor activist Nellie Stone Johnson, who successfully organized workers in the 1920s and later connected with Hubert Humphrey to become his guiding conscience on civil rights.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (aka HERE)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support HERE Artist Residency Program for mid-career performing and visual artists collaborating and experimenting with new approaches to expand the parameters of performance work. The development of participating artists' work is nurtured through cross-disciplinary exchange, workshops, panel discussions, artist retreats, career development services, and productions.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$30,000
To support the development and production of May Day is Lei Day! directed by artistic director Eric Johnson. Through community interviews and research about the traditions of a popular ritual, the play will commemorate the annual Hawaiian May Day, in which the giving and receiving of leis, parades, pageants, lei competitions, festivities, song and dance occur.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the Breaking Ground/HPF Play Lab. The project will provide a three-week writing and performance retreat for four playwrights and 16 actors to collaborate and focus on artist-driven play development.

id Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho, a program that brings professional artists from across the country together with artists and students from the local community to collaboratively develop new plays. The program consists of two weeks of rehearsals, workshops, and readings for the Conference plays, and a presentation and playwriting workshop.

Imagination Stage, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$25,000
To support the world premiere of P. Nokio, a new adaptation of the classic Pinocchio tale created by hip hop theater artist and playwright Psalmayene 24. The production will merge rap, break dancing, and graffiti art to tell the story of a computer-animated character's quest to become a real boy.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$16,000
To support the development and production of Hidebound, adapted from a series of plays by Erik Ehn, titled Soulographie. Hidebound will explore the conquest and genocide of the indigenous population in Mexico by Spain and the United States through the story of a family relocating to Mexico.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
To support a production of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson and related outreach activities designed to deepen relationships with the disabled community, and to awaken awareness among the non-disabled. In partnership with VSA Indiana and its state-wide affiliates, the project will feature a tour of outreach activities for children with and without disabilities, as well as immersion training for the actors portraying lead roles at the Indiana School for the Blind and Deaf.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support resident company Campo Santo's development of Alleluia, The Road, a new play by Luis Alfaro, inspired by August Strindberg's The Road to Damascus. The research and development process will engage urban and rural communities as a team of artists explore seven stops on California's Highway 99, reflecting on the state's history of economic, demographic, and cultural shifts.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the development and production of The Stopped Bridge of Dreams, written and directed by John Jesurun. Inspired by Ihara Saikaku, the 17th-century Japanese poet and novelist known for his stories of The Floating World, the work is set in an airplane, a modern version of a pleasure quarter tea house.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Open Access Program to provide selected writers access to development support for their new works. Designed to support unheard voices, the program will include a review of new scripts, readings, networking opportunities through the Playwrights Week, and advancement of selected works to a 30-hour workshop which concludes with public readings of new theatrical pieces.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the development and world premiere of You for Me for You, a new play by Asian American playwright Mia Chung. The play explores the concept of survival as an act of imagination and creativity as it revolves around two sisters attempting to leave the closed society of North Korea because of the failing health of one sister.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the development and world premiere of Bruja, an original, contemporary adaptation of Euripedes' Medea, set in modern day Cuba, by playwright Luis Alfaro and producing artistic director Loretta Greco. Affairs of the heart take on intense theatrical dimension in this story of exile as people view Medea's choices in a contemporary light.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Don’t Go Gentle by Stephen Belber.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the world premiere of The Columnist by David Auburn, directed by Daniel Sullivan. The drama chronicles the turbulence of the 1960s through the life of iconic Washington insider and domestic and foreign affairs journalist Joseph Alsop.

Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support a playwright residency and production of Lauren Gunderson's new play Silent Sky with accompanying educational activities. Using the medium of theater to tell the story of women in science, Silent Sky portrays the life of early 20th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt on her journey of discovery.

McCarter Theater
Princeton, NJ
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Are You There, McPhee?, a new play by John Guare, directed by Sam Buntrock. The play journeys through the imaginative memory of a man coming to understand who he is as an artist, while exploring universal issues such as the quest for identity, the intersection of art and culture, the role of the artist, and the search for true love.

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Mettawee River Company)
Salem, NY
$20,000
To support the creation and tour of Archy to the Rescue featuring masks and puppets by designer-director Ralph Lee. The play is adapted from the early 20th-century New York Sun columns of Don Marquis, which featured communiques from the author's small associate Archy, a cockroach with the soul of a poet-philosopher.

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a revival of Love Goes to Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles, directed by Jerry Ruiz. Originally debuted in London in 1946, the comedy tells the story of women war correspondents based on Gellhorn and Cowles' own experiences covering the front lines in WWII.

Miracle Theatre Group
Portland, OR
$18,000
To support the development and production of Jardin de Suenos, an original Spanish-language play based on pre-Hispanic legends by Sofia May-Cuxim, directed by Christy Drogosch. Originally developed as a children's theater piece centered on the indigenous Mayan and Cocomas myths, the play tells the story of a young girl who rescues a hummingbird that leads her into a garden of dreams where she is transformed by encounters with legendary folk characters.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the production of a series of new plays about the challenges of living in a pluralistic world. Plays will include Learn to Be Latina by Enrique Urueta, Crashing the Party by Josh Tobiessen, and a bilingual production of Minnecanos by Joe Minjares and Tomas Benitez.

National New Play Network
Washington, DC
$45,000
To support productions of new plays through the Continued Life of New Plays Fund. NNPN will create a consortium of three theaters, committed to producing the same new play, which playwrights will develop with three different creative teams within a 12-month period resulting in a rolling world premiere.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the presentation of theater works for young audiences by international and national companies accompanied by arts education programs and outreach activities. The project will feature four works: Brazil! Brazil! by World Stage Productions & Broadway Asia LLC (Brazil); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Kansas City Repertory Theatre in association with Hartford Stage, CT; Lucky Duck by the Coterie Lab, MO; and The Book of Everything by Belvoir Theatre Company & Theater of Image (Australia).

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the Playwrights Lab for development of new work. The Lab provides writers with resources through each stage of the play development process as well as the opportunity to explore or revisit new plays and musicals at any step in their development.

New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the world premiere of An Early History of Fire by David Rabe and directed by Jo Bonney. Set in 1962 and based on Rabe's upbringing in a small Midwestern town, the play portrays Danny, a young man whose life is frustratingly limited by his trouble-making childhood friends, and his father, a German immigrant crippled by nostalgia.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Fatebook Prague, a Czech-language version of a cyberspace/real-space work produced in conjunction with the 4 + 4 Days in Motion Festival and HoME Theatre in Prague. The work will weave the stories of 12 Czech young adult characters into a Web site narrative that will mesh with a variety of social networks in an audience/performer interplay.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Public LAB, a new play development program designed to provide opportunities for playwrights to develop their work in front of an audience. Supported activities will include a world premiere of The Total Bent, a new musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald about a black gospel prodigy and a white music producer from South London; and the world premiere of a new play (TBD).

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Food and Fadwa by Arab American actor and playwright Lameece Issaq, directed by Shana Gold. The piece tells the story of a Palestinian woman and her family's struggle to maintain its culture and lifestyle amidst the constraints of life in East Bethlehem.

Open Eye Figure Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation of a new puppet theater production of The Sorcerer's Apprentice based on Goethe's original poem. Visually inspired by photographs of a set created by Roger Hayward in the early 1930s, the work will be performed by four puppeteers, with puppets designed by a student artist from the University of Connecticut, and will be accompanied by three live musicians performing an original score written by Minneapolis composer Michael Koerner.

Oregon Children's Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the commission and the production of The Storm in the Barn, an adaptation by playwright Eric Coble of Matt Phelan's novel that won the 2010 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Set in 1937 Kansas, in the midst of the Dust Bowl, the play portrays a family on the verge of losing their farm and an 11 year-old boy who can barely remember a time with enough rain.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$80,000
To support the creation and world premieres of Universes' Party People and Robert Schenkkan's All The Way, created as part of American Revolutions, OSF's decade-long, public dialogue, commissioning, and production initiative. Artistic director Bill Rauch and director Liesl Tommy will explore the turbulent and pivotal decades of the 1960s and 70s from two radically different perspectives: the rise and fall of the activist groups, the Young Lords and Black Panthers, and the early presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Page Seventy-Three Productions, Inc. (aka PAGE 73)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support early-career playwright development initiatives that offer unproduced emerging playwrights work tools, and shepherds new plays from initial draft to production-ready scripts. The initiatives provide a flexible framework through which a participating playwright can create a development plan that best fits the piece in-progress and to forge new artistic alliances or advance long-term relationships with artistic collaborators.

Park Square Theatre Company
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the world premiere of a commissioned work, American Family, inspired by the 1964 film One Potato, Two Potato, by playwright Carlyle Brown. The play explores the life challenges faced by bi-racial children and trans-racial families as it portrays a woman's childhood memories of being taken away from her mother and new half-brother when her biological father regains custody.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Fallow, a new play by Kenneth Lin, and directed by Jackson Gay. Fallow chronicles the parallel journeys of a young man who has abandoned his Ivy League education to travel the country as a migrant worker, and his mother who goes to search out the men who murdered him in a hate crime of mistaken identity.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$20,000
To support a production of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. A seminal work in the development of African American theater, as well as a study of the issues of race relations, the play portrays an African American family living in Chicago's South Side during the 1940s and examines the American dream of children striving to rise above their parents' accomplishments.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a collaborative project with Japanese novelist, director, and playwright Toshiki Okada to create his first English-language play. The work will involve the Pig Iron ensemble, translator Aya Ogawa, and resident designers Mimi Lien and James Clotfelter, and will explore Japanese and American ideas about space, seclusion, and happiness.

Plan-B Theater Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support the world premiere of The Third Crossing by Debora Threedy, directed by artistic director Jerry Rapier. The play is a multimedia theatrical collage that explores the impact of societal prejudices on couples in inter-racial relationships, and how their children destabilize traditional perceptions of racial identity.

Play Production Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support The New Work/ New World Production Series, which features new American plays alongside new international works. The project will include the New York premiere of The Golden Dragon by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig; Working on a Special Day, an experimental work inspired by Ettore Scola's 1977 Academy Award-winning film; and a co-production with Ma-Yi Theatre Company.

PlayPenn, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support an annual new play development conference. The project's primary activities will include six 29-hour developmental workshops through which competitively selected playwrights will work with directors, designers, and dramaturgs to develop plays, culminating in public readings of the new work.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 35th anniversary presentation of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival includes a week of studio work and two weekends of publically-staged readings of eight new plays.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the development and premiere of The Hundred Flowers Project, a new play by Asian American playwright Christopher Chen, directed by Latin American playwright and director Octavio Solis. Co-commissioned with Crowded Fire Theater Company, and with participation by the Lark Play Development Center, the play investigates the reign of Mao Tse-tung's cult of personality and its powerful impact on the modern world.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of Assistance by Leslye Headland. The third in a series of works exploring Dante's seven deadly sins, the play is a satire on greed and our national addiction to power, telling the story of six personal assistants working for a tyrannical business magnate.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the Ruth Easton Lab for new play development. With a focus on developing and promoting the scripts and careers of the Center's competitively selected Core Writers, the Lab's activities include developmental workshops with full artistic teams for scripts-in-progress and the expansion of the Partnership Initiative, which consists of efforts to connect writers with producing theaters through invited events and travel support.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the 14th annual JAW (Just Add Water): Playwrights Festival, which supports playwrights in new work development to enhance the repertoire of the American theater. The two-week festival brings four playwrights to Portland where their work with theater professionals culminates in formal mainstage readings of the playwrights' works.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$35,000
To support the development of the bilingual production The Astronaut's Desire, directed by director/dramaturg Alvan Colon Lespier with musical direction by Desmar Guevara. Drawing from original research and interviews with Latino air and space professionals, The Astronaut's Desire is the fictional story of Esteban Only, who single-handedly undertakes spacecraft repairs.

Present Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. Competitively selected artists and arts organizations will present work to a broad audience in a variety of venues.

Quantum Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and world premiere of The Electric Baby by Stefanie Zadravec with direction by Daniella Topol. This contemporary, urban story unites a Romanian mother, a Nigerian father, with Americans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Rattlestick Productions, Inc. (aka Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and premiere of Basilica-An American Corrido, written by Mando Alvarado and directed by Michael Ray Escamilla. The form of the play will be a corrido, a descriptive Mexican folk song, and will portray a man who returns home to a small West Texas town to face his sins, causing himself and those around him to question their faith and morals.

Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
To support a production of The Merchant of Venice directed by Kristin Horton, and Confronting the Other in Iowa, a series of community outreach activities that will explore topics of prejudice led by educators, scholars, and community leaders. Activities will consist of free public discussions, specially-designed Green Show performances, and talkbacks.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of Fairytale Lives of Russian Women by Meg Miroshnik, the winning play of the Alliance Theatre's National Graduate Playwriting Competition, and a reading series of finalists' work in Atlanta and New York. Using ancient Russian fairy tales as a device to propel the plot of an all-female cast, the play examines the modern perils and complexities of life for women in contemporary Moscow.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$30,000
To support the world premiere of Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus by Jason Gray Platt, directed by artistic director Blake Robison. The play is a contemporary re-imagining of The Odyssey told from the perspective of the family waiting anxiously at home for a soldier's return from war abroad.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$25,000
To support a final workshop and the world premiere of Tortilla Curtain by Matthew Spangler, based on the 1955 novel by T.C. Boyle, and directed by artistic director Sam Woodhouse. Part comic satire and part parable about the price of the American Dream, Tortilla Curtain takes place in 2011 just outside Los Angeles and explores the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of citizens and immigrants.

Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Inc.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
$20,000
To support the commission and development of Didja Hear?, a new play in the Headwaters Community Story Performance Series. Residents will participate in collecting stories that explore ability/disability issues.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the world premiere of A Single Shard adapted by playwright Robert Schenkkan from the book by Linda Sue Park. The play portrays an impoverished orphan boy in 12th-century Korea who in search for a better life, is devoted to an older disabled man.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a production of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris with direction by associate artistic director Braden Abraham. Home is where the heart and history reside in Clybourne Park as it spins the events of the classic play A Raison in the Sun to tell an unforgettable new story about race and gentrification in America.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Lonely, I’m Not by Paul Weitz. Lonely, I’m Not is about a son’s attempt to reenter the world after giving up the trappings of wealth and dropping out of a fast paced corporate job, and his desire to rebuilt relationships with his father, ex-wife, former colleagues, and a new love interest, who happens to be blind.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$70,000
To support a production of Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill, directed by artistic director Michael Kahn. Kahn's abridgement of the five-hour master work will utilize video and projection technology and a simple set to explore the controversy surrounding the work in O'Neill's time, and its position in the canon of American theater history.

Shotgun Players, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of The Berkeley Stories Project, a community-based play created in collaboration with residents from the city of Berkeley. Lead artists Dan Wolf and Rebecca Novick will conduct outreach in ten different Berkeley neighborhoods, cultural centers, or schools, creating episodes based on input from the community that will then be performed in public community spaces.

Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the production of Hurt Village by Katori Hall. The piece tells the story of an African American soldier who returns from the Iraq War to find the Memphis housing project in which his family lives on the verge of demolition.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a production of Annie Baker's adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, directed by Sam Gold. Baker will collaborate with Russian-speaking translator Margarita Shalina to develop an adaptation immersed in Russian culture, but still accessible and relevant to an American audience.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$70,000
To support the 15th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, which will include world premiere productions and world premiere workshop readings of new plays. The festival will culminate with a three-day weekend during which local audiences and visiting theater professionals from across the country can see numerous plays.

Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support the staging of new works, a commission and workshop of an autobiographical play with music by Ruby Bridges, and a workshop of the play selected as the winner of the annual Ruby Prize, during The New Play Bacchanal festival. Educator, civil rights activist, and author Ruby Bridges will write an autobiographical play based on her life in the Florida neighborhood of New Orleans and the challenges met during an era of segregation.

St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc. (aka St. Ann's Warehouse)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support a co-commissioning with artist Cynthia Hopkins and the Walker Arts Center to create This Clement World. The work will explore climate change through the integration of a variety of media and seeks to illuminate the way in which humanity is rendering its habitat inhospitable and the changes of behavior necessary to maintain a habitable climate.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the production of The March, a new play adapted and directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Frank Galati, from the novel by E.L. Doctorow. The March chronicles Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864-65, during the final months of the Civil War, and recounts the destruction wrought by the conflict and the changes that it engendered in our national life and psyche for generations to follow.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support the U.S. premiere of Sucker Punch by playwright Roy Williams, directed by Leah C. Gardiner. The new play received critical acclaim in the United Kingdom and depicts two poor black athletes negotiating in a white world of power, trying to use their athletic prowess as a means to success.

Sundance Institute Theatre Program
Park City, UT
$55,000
To support the Sundance Theatre Lab for the development of new work by emerging and mid-career theater artists. Providing an environment and the resources to advance new play scripts toward full productions, the Lab offers a full range of support to enable the fellows to focus on strengthening the storytelling and authentic voice of their projects.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development of new plays that deal with disability or feature artists with disabilities, and the world premiere of one play at the conclusion of this stage. Plays in development include Sex on Wheels by Gregg Mozgala, a comedy about two high school students in wheelchairs who devise a unique plan to increase their popularity; The Road to Messina by Kate Moira Ryan, about Iraq from the point of view of a disabled soldier; Something Truly Monstrous by Jeff Tabnick; and Sad Hotel by David Foley.

Theater Mu, Inc. (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Saint Paul, MN
$18,000
To support a production of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by Asian American playwright A. Rey Pamatmat, directed by Randy Reyes. The play tells the coming-of-age story of two Filipino teenage siblings and a friend in remote Middle America without parental supervision, and the discovering of gay identity.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a production of The Broken Heart by John Ford, directed by Irish director Selina Cartmell in her American directing debut. Cartmell's direction of Ford's rarely-performed Jacobean drama will employ a theatrical blending of text, choreography, light, and music.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the development and remounting of This is Life as We Know It, an ensemble-created work, in preparation for a national tour. Originally created in 2001, the piece explores the effects of American pop-culture on individual isolation, and will be re-examined to explore the evolution of the work's themes in the context of the meteoric rise of social media.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and production of Mystical Abyss, conceived and directed by Yuriko Doi and written by playwright John O'Keefe. Inspired by similarities between the Native American Iroquois creation myth and the Japanese Izanami (Goddess of Creation and Death) and Amaterasu (Sun Goddess) myths, the work will dramatize the need for connection and understanding across cultures through Native American storytelling, dance, and music with traditional Japanese Noh theater.

True Colors Theatre Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support a production of William Rose’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc. (aka UMO Ensemble)
Vashon, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and production of a physical theater piece entitled Maldoror. Founding artist Janet McAlpin will collaborate with Seattle musician Andre Sanabria to create a buffoon-influenced performance inspired by 19th-century Surrealist writer le Comte de Lautreamont (pen name for Isidore Ducasse).

University of Utah (on behalf of Pioneer Memorial Theater)
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support developmental workshops of a commissioned show, Dominique Serrand's and Steve Epp's Inivisible to the Eye-Looking for the Little Prince. The work will interweave the writings of The Little Prince by author Saint-Exupery with his experience as a WWII pilot.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the world premiere of We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Long Wharf Theatre's associate artistic director Eric Ting will direct the play about a group of actors who try to develop a presentation about the genocide of the Herero tribe of cattle herders in South-West Africa.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (aka Lincoln Center Theater)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the world premiere of a new untitled play by Bruce Norris, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The play explores contemporary gender conflicts with irony and humor as it tells the story of a politician who resigns his office in the midst of a ruinous scandal, and of his privileged family's struggle to recover.

William Inge Festival Foundation
Independence, KS
$50,000
To support extended residencies and surrounding activities in Independence, Kansas, for professional playwrights from across the country. Activities will include week-long development workshops with professional guest artists, public readings, instruction of high school and college students in playwriting, professional writing workshops, and subsidized time for writing and reflection.

Women's Project & Productions (aka Women's Project)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support activities of the WP Lab. The program provides a two-year artistic residency for competitively selected early to mid-career women playwrights, directors, and producers to develop new work; and features monthly Lab meetings, dramaturgical sessions, readings, workshops, and the production of a new, full-length play created through the collaboration of Lab artists.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support the world premiere of Mr. Burns, a new play by Anne Washburn, featuring music by Michael Friedman. The play imagines a post-apocalyptic civilization confronting questions of what to rebuild and what to live without following a catastrophic event.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support the world premiere of The Realistic Joneses, a new play by Will Eno, directed by Sam Gold. The play tells the story of two neighboring couples with the same last name in which both husbands are struggling with the same rare, incurable disease and participating in the same experimental drug trial.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the development of No Homo, a new play written and directed by Young Jean Lee investigating gay men and their oppressors, developed in collaboration with a diverse company of gay and queer-identifying performers. The piece will explore the issue of homophobia in all segments of American society, including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community itself.

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