Theater: FY2004 Grants

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

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Actors Co-op, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$6,000
To support the development, presentation, and tour of a new ensemble-created theater work. The Coal Creek Project will tour the work to underserved audiences in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Antenna Theater, Inc.
Sausalito, CA
$10,000
To support the High School Project. The project will consist of on-site residencies in which company artists, in collaboration with students and teachers, will create a 40-minute walk-through performance unique to each school location.

Aquila Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a national tour of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man. The project will be targeted to underserved, rural, and inner-city communities and will be accompanied by a full educational program of special school performances, workshops, and master classes.

Arizona Theatre Company (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support a consortium project that will increase access to and appreciation of theater by underserved young people and adults in communities near the Arizona/Mexico border. Young Audiences of Santa Cruz will coordinate and promote the theater's services through schools and local community organizations.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$30,000
To support free, outdoor performances of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in state parks throughout Arkansas. Prior to the performances, the theater will work closely with participating communities to offer workshops for local residents focused on the language and themes of Shakespeare's plays.

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles, CA
$32,000
To support Native Voices at the Autry, a multi-year theater initiative to develop and present new work for the stage by Native-American writers. Activities will include an annual young playwrights workshop, staged readings, play development support for three Native American writers, a 10-day writers retreat, and the production of a new play.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Beyond the Ring program which provides inner-city youth with instruction and training in classical circus arts. The program consists of in-school and after-school components as well as performance opportunities.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$20,000
To support Theatre in the Classroom, a traveling educational theater experience. The program tours adaptations of world folk literature or American history to elementary and middle schools, offering performances and residencies throughout Pennsylvania.

California Shakespeare Festival
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support a grassroots new play development project involving community organizations and residents of Oakland, California. With playwright Naomi Iizuka and San Francisco's Campo Santo Theatre Collective, the project will develop and produce a new theater piece.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support Team Shakespeare, a community-based, educational initiative that makes Shakespeare accessible to area students and teachers. The program features a series of designated student performances of full-length Shakespeare productions as well as an abridged touring production.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the Write Now! program. The company will offer playwriting workshops to local seventh graders, in collaboration with A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Aided by teaching artists, each student will create an original play.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support the fifth project in the Faith Based Theater Cycle. Cornerstone, in consortium with East West Players of Los Angeles, will collaborate with the South Asian Hindu community to develop and present a new theater work.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the Dramatic AIDS Education Project in consortium with the University of Kansas Medical Center. The company will provide customized and culturally specific AIDS education performance workshops for teens in Missouri and Kansas.

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre
Monterey Park, CA
$20,000
To support the John Anson Ford Family Series. The company will present a new adaptation by Tony Plana of a play by William Shakespeare with original music by Joey Arreguin and choreography by Tonyo Melendez.

Ensemble Studio Theatre (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium theater festival. The Fusion Festival is a week-long celebration of new works by theater companies and artists from the Catskill Mountain area and New York City.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$8,000
To support residencies by theater artists in four underserved counties of rural Maine. In each community, the theater will offer public and school performances using puppets, actors, shadows, movement, and masks to create original visual theater productions.

Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
Seattle, WA
$8,000
To support a tour of performances and interactive workshops to organizations that represent culturally underserved communities. The project will provide non-traditional audiences with opportunities to engage in the artistic process of theater through improvisation, performance, and script development.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Boise, ID
$18,000
To support the Rural Outreach Project, a program touring Shakespeare productions with related educational programming for kindergarten through 12th-grade students in four states. The program consists of two components, Shakespearience and Idaho Theater for Youth.

Imagination Workshop, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
To support the Artists Communicating Theater Program, a series of playwriting and improvisational workshops for students with disabilities. University of California Los Angeles' Neuropsychiatric Institute and several Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Malibu schools will participate.

Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support a local tour of theater works for young audiences based on the cultural traditions of Latin America and the Caribbean. The company will reach underserved audiences through performances at New York City public libraries.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support matinee performances of plays through the Living History program. The project also includes week-long artist residencies in local high schools.

Junebug Productions, Inc.
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support a national model initiative to document and collect stories of the civil rights movement in the United States, which will be used to formulate future theatrical works. The Color Line Project will train artists, educators, community organizations, and activists in the collection and archival of people's experiences during the civil rights era.

L. A. Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$10,000
To support a student matinee program, free theater, and youth internships. LA Public Theatre will provide access to the theater for a diverse and underserved population of children and adults in a largely rural and economically depressed region of Maine.

Lime Kiln Arts, Inc.
Lexington, VA
$8,000
To support a theater touring program and ancillary educational activities. Lime Kiln will tour work that showcases Appalachian folk tales and adaptations of classic literature to schools and civic groups throughout Virginia and the Southeast.

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$11,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. The company will present Our Short Stay, written and directed by Carlton and Barbara Molette, to underserved audiences in Miami's historical Overtown community.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$6,000
To support a series of performances of Once Upon a Time, a celebration of storytelling in the company's 18th-anniversary season. Performances of the company's entire repertory will be presented through arts residencies at the Maryland School for the Blind and the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Baltimore.

Metro Theater Company (consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support a consortium project to develop, produce, and perform Earth Songs, an original theater piece for family audiences that celebrates community through the eyes of the Earth itself. The Maryville University School of Education will provide scientific and technical consulting to assist with the development of thematically related education programs.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$30,000
To support a summer tour of classic plays to underserved and rural areas throughout Montana, northern Wyoming, and eastern Idaho. Montana Shakespeare in the Parks will present As You Like It by William Shakespeare and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith free of charge to 50 communities.

New Hampshire Mime Company
Portsmouth, NH
$10,000
To support a tour of six works exploring and celebrating the history and literature of New England, including adaptations of Our Town and The Country of the Pointed Firs. Performances will take place in town halls, libraries, museums, schools, and other facilities in rural New England communities.

North American Cultural Laboratory, Inc.
Highland Lake, NY
$10,000
To support the Catskill Festival of New Theatre. Performances will be augmented by artist residencies, public workshops, performer training exchanges, academic forums, new play readings, and late night cabarets.

Orlando Theatre Project, Inc.
Sanford, FL
$10,000
To support an intergenerational theater program that connects low-income senior volunteers with underserved teens to create an interactive theater piece addressing social issues. The completed production will tour to schools and community centers in central Florida.

Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and multi-state tour of a new work for children. Founder and veteran artistic director Judith Martin will lead an ensemble of artists through the writing, musical scoring, and design of the new production.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$35,000
To support the Audience Development Initiative. The project includes the development and presentation of a new play by Tazewell Thompson augmented by a series of panel discussions, forums, and writing workshops.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$22,000
To support the tour of the Academy Theatre for Youth's Artists-In-Schools Team. The ensemble will develop original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays to tour to schools and youth organizations throughout the Southeast.

Playwrights Preview Productions
New York, NY
$12,000
To support Urban Stages' Outreach Program. With the Brooklyn, New York, and Queens public library systems serving as venues and partners, the company will tour new works by multi-ethnic authors to underserved communities.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a spectacle-based theater production. In collaboration with community participants, Redmoon Theater will produce the Winter Pageant, a family-oriented community theater event to celebrate the changing of the seasons and the coming of winter.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Alliance Theatre Company)
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
To support a consortium presentation of a theater series that will expose Atlanta audiences to theater companies and playwrights in a variety of styles of work. In partnership with the Jewish Theatre of the South Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, the Alliance Theatre Company will present the work of four small Atlanta theater companies in City Series II.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support free performances of Henry V during the 19th annual Summer Festival in Los Angeles's Pershing Square. The company plans to increase the size and diversity of audiences attending the performances by targeting residents of downtown Los Angeles and several disenfranchised and underserved populations.

Sierra Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Sonora, CA
$8,000
To support School-Family Theater Nights, a program designed to increase family and youth participation in the theater's activities. The company will expand the program to provide opportunities to underserved families, target new schools, and provide family discussion guides to enhance the experience of seeing a production.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support ACCESSO 2005: Hispanic Theatre for Latino Students. The project offers classic and contemporary Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino plays to Hispanic students and communities throughout the Northeast.

St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$28,000
To support components of the company's Community and Education programs. The initiative includes a professional theater intern program, touring performances, student matinees, workshops, acting classes, and a summer theater camp.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the Expanding Access and Opportunity Initiative. The foundation will host a three-day symposium that will address the lack of leadership opportunities for artists of color and gifted young visionaries.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the tour of a classic play. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand will tour to low-income audiences in the Twin Cities.

That Uppity Theatre Company
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a tour of theater works about the culture of disability to schools throughout St. Louis. The DisAbility Project is an ensemble of adults with and without disabilities that creates and performs original live theater to foster community awareness and dialogue about disability.

Trinity Repertory Company (consortium)
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support a consortium project to present free abridged productions of Shakespeare's works in outdoor public venues. In partnership with CapitolArts Providence, the project will expand the reach of the Trinity Summer Shakespeare Project, identify new performance venues, and maximize the program's impact.

Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$8,000
To support a consortium project that will bring a professional Shakespeare production to public parks in Greater Boston. The Wang Center's Tour of the Parks will feature Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$25,000
To support the expansion of the theater's education and outreach programs for intergenerational, rural, and underserved audiences. The project will include summer production internships, training and onstage experience for young performers, school matinees, a multi-state tour of a play, statewide teacher workshops, and the hiring of a full-time education director.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support artist residencies and the production of two plays through the Special Constituencies and TheaterWorks initiatives. The company will produce two plays by OyamO including I Am a Man, and will offer artist residencies and workshops to low-income working people at three New York City unions.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$18,000
To support the Youth to Dare Tour. The project is a month-long tour of as many as nine plays written by middle and high school students.

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1812 Productions, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
To support the presentation of a new theater work through the Cabaret Program. The program will feature one solo or chamber production by a member of the Philadelphia artistic community.

7 Stages, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the premiere production of Maria Kizito by Erik Ehn. Artistic Director Del Hamilton will direct the piece and choreograpers/ performance artists Laurie Carlos and Robbie McCauley of New York City's Urban Bush Women will play leading roles in the production.

A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work through the Middle-East Project (working title). Artistic Director Aaron Davidson will oversee the collaboration between the ensemble and guest artists Meiran Kupperberg and Ibraham Guani.

About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and production of a new theater piece entitled They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They? This interdisciplinary, company-created piece will incorporate text, dance, music, drama, and film to explore the role of Latin American artists and culture in the early Hollywood entertainment industry.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$60,000
To support the 28th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Artistic Director Marc Masterson will program and oversee this annual signature event.

Adirondack Theatre Festival, Inc.
Glens Falls, NY
$10,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a play by Melissa James Gibson. The play will be written and developed in 2004 and will premiere during the festival's 2005 season.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$40,000
To support the 2004 Festival of New Plays. The project will include the development and presentation of two productions and four to six staged readings of new plays.

American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Levee James, a new play by Sherry Shephard-Massat.

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
To support the development and production of an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream by director/choreographer Martha Clarke.

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of Roadside Theater)
Whitesburg, KY
$30,000
To support the development and documentation of an artistic residency model. Appalshop's Roadside Theater will bring together five host sites nationwide to mount a new play about the traditions of jazz and bluegrass.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$28,000
To support a New Works program in theater. The Independence Foundation New Play Showcase will include the development and production of a world premiere and a series of workshops of new American plays and musicals with free public readings.

Arena Stage (Washington Drama Society, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the production of a classic play. Bertolt Brecht's early satire about war, entitled A Man's a Man, will be produced in Arena Stage's theater-in-the-round.

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$35,000
To support a guest artist residency with an adaptation of a series of one-act plays into one full-length production for the stage. Actor and clown Geoff Hoyle will conduct classes in farce and clowning and create an evening of farce based on the plays of Georges Feydeau, an early 20th century French master of the genre.

Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a new play by Lauren Marshall based on commedia dell'arte playwright Carlo Goldoni's La Casa Nova.

Atlantic Theater Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the commission, development, and production of an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard by Tom Donaghy.

Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the production of Antigone Falun Gong, a new play by Cherylene Lee.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support a production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Activities surrounding the production will include student matinees and an enhanced in-school residency program.

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL
$27,000
To support a tour of The Jackie Wilson Story and Doo Wop Shoo Bop by the BET Touring Company to 20 cities across the United States.

Center Stage Associates Endowment Fund
Baltimore, MD
$55,000
To support the production of a.m. Sunday by Jerome Hairston.

Cherry Lane Alternative, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Mentor Project, a play development program that engages emerging writers in working relationships with noted American dramatists for an entire theater season.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$14,000
To support Writing Our World (WOW!), a program that uses a variety of activities to address global cultural understanding. Through workshops, residencies, and performances, WOW! encourages children to explore their creativity by writing their own stories and by learning to understand the lives of others.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
To support the production and development of two new plays for multigenerational audiences. The two plays are a part of Children's Theatre Company's Threshold 2004, an intensive play development laboratory.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$27,000
To support the development, workshops, and public presentation of a new play. Playwright Barry Kornhauser and director Eric Johnson will join artistic director David Saar to create a new work based on Mediterranean mythology and folklore.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
To support the development and premiere production of a new play. Going Gone by Karen Hartman will be developed through readings, workshops, and rehearsals for a full production at The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the creation, rehearsal, and presentation of an original circus production. The New Pickle Circus will integrate the work of guest artists and company performers to create a circus performance featuring acrobatic skills.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$22,000
To support the production of Uncle Tom's Cabin or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Artistic Director Randy Rollison and Dramaturg Floraine Kay will adapt the work. Mr. Rollison will also serve as director.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Summerworks '04 Festival. The month-long festival will feature three full productions and four staged readings of new plays.

Contemporary American Theater Festival
Shepherdstown, WV
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Flag Day by Lee Blessing.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support The Jewish Project, a collaboration bringing members of L.A.'s diverse intra-faith community together to create and perform a play. Playwright Lisa Loomer will conduct research and collect stories to develop a play that explores the contemporary Jewish Diaspora, including tensions between segments of the community.

Court Theatre Fund (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the creation, production, and adaptation of a literary work for the stage. Court Theatre will partner with Redmoon Theatre to create an original theatrical production of Cyrano de Bergerac, the verse drama by Edmond Rostand.

Cuarzo Blanco, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$12,000
To support the development and production of a play for young audiences. Elementary schools and family audiences will view Peces Al Ataque, a play about preservation of the environment and the fish population in San Juan.

Cultural Images Group, Inc. (Serious Play!)
Northampton, MA
$8,000
To support the development and premiere production of a new play. Serious Play! Youth Ensemble will collaborate with playwright Alice Tuan on Coastline, a virtual hyper-text theater piece.

Dad's Garage, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support a residency for playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Residency activities will include playwriting classes and workshops, and will culminate in three publicly staged readings of his new play, Rough Magic.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$18,000
To support the development and tour of a new play created in collaboration with playwright Lauren Wilson. The play, based on the book In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, will be directed by Artistic Director Michael Fields and performed by the company's core ensemble.

Division 13 Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support an advanced developmental workshop for a new American translation of Eugene Ionesco's Journeys Among the Dead. The goal of the workshop is to fully conceptualize, design, and construct the visual elements for this interdisciplinary piece.

East-West Players (EWP)
Los Angeles, CA
$37,000
To support the world premiere production of Mixed Messages by Cherylene Lee. East West Players' Producing Artistic Director Tim Dang will direct the piece.

Empty Space Association
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the development and world premiere of a new work. Northwest playwright and actor Todd Moore will join with local artists Chris Jeffries and Allison Narver, artistic director of Empty Space, to create a piece entitled Smedley Butler: The Maverick Marine.

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$40,000
To support the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the O'Neill Music Theater Conference. These annual events offer playwrights, composers, and librettists opportunities for the development of new work.

Exittheatre
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support the presentation of new works by women writers through DIVAfest 2004. The festival will feature productions of up to eight new plays, including Boxcar Bertha by Kerry Reid, two staged readings of works in progress, and a benefit reading of works by local writers.

Famous Door
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the production of Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell. Artistic Director Marc Grapey will direct the piece and composer/sound designer Joseph Fosco will score the work.

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$12,000
To support the production of Holes by writer-playwright Louis Sachar. Artistic Director Jeff Frank will direct the production.

Folger Shakespeare Library (Trustees of Amherst College)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the world premiere production of Melissa Arctic by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Craig Wright. Aaron Posner, co-founder of Philadelphia's Arden Theatre, will direct.

Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
$12,000
To support New Voices of the Wild West, an annual new play festival. The festival will include a world premiere production of What in the World's Come Over You? by Red Shuttleworth, as well as staged readings of other new plays.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the premiere production of Fifth Exotic, a new solo work by Ralph Pena, commissioned for award-winning performer Ching Valdes-Aran. Filmmaker/videographer Marilys Ernst will create cinematic elements to accompany the live performance.

Goodman Theatre (Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of Electricidad by Luis Alfaro, directed by Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez. Subtitled "A Chicano Take on Sophocles' Electra", Electricidad is a retelling of the Greek story of murder and matricide.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the collaborative creation of a new work. Great Small Works will partner with Chinese Theater Works to create Journey to the West, an interdisciplinary, bilingual work combining traditional Chinese literature, opera, and shadow puppet theater with contemporary Western puppetry.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the production of Crowns by Regina Taylor, an adaptation based on the book Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats. The book was compiled by photographer Michael Cunningham and journalist Craig Marberry. The play will be directed by Timothy Bond.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
To support a new production of American playwright Edward Albee's first play and the world premiere of his latest piece. The Zoo Story (1959) and Home Life will be produced as a double bill at Hartford Stage Company to celebrate the theater's 40th anniversary season.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$22,000
To support the development and production of a new puppet and mask theater work. Duane Tougas, Elisha Whittington, and Masanari Kawahara will create The Man Show, a work celebrating today's various perspectives on manhood.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (HERE)
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), a professional development program for mid career artists and collaborative artist teams. HARP serves artists through workshops, panel discussions, productions, and career development services.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support the development and state-wide tour of DIS/TROY, a new adaptation of The Iliad by Yokanaan Kearns. Artistic Director Mark Lutwak will direct the piece.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of The Paris Letter by Jon Robin Baitz. This play was the inaugural commission of the Huntington's Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays in 2002.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
To support the development and production of a new work by Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the company. The performance will feature a unique interdisciplinary performance style, developed over nearly twenty-five years by Jones and Ackamoor, which combines music, theater, spoken-word, and movement.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the 17th annual Fresh Ink series of new plays. Illusion provides opportunities for six to ten playwrights, composers, lyricists and directors to develop new work in a process that culminates in full studio theater productions.

Imagination Stage, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$10,000
To support the commission, development, and production of a new theater work by Kevin Kling based on the Greek myth of Persephone. The play will further the commitment of BAPA's Imagination Stage to accessibility and inclusion by featuring professional actors and dancers with disabilities.

Imago, The Theatre Mask Ensemble
Portland, OR
$13,000
To support the development and production of a new work entitled Ask Cicero, based on Luigi Pirandello's Each in His Own Way. The piece will combine elements of musical theater, physical comedy, vaudeville, linear and non-linear techniques, and visual illusion.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$55,000
To support a festival of new productions of five Tennessee Williams plays and readings for a retrospective expected to reach an estimated 100,000 patrons. The project will also feature an exhibit on Williams, as well as artist engagements with local schools through the Events for Students program.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support the development and production of Epcot-El Alamo, a Chicano science fiction performance opera created by Guillermo Gomez-Pe_a. The collaborative development team will include performance artists, actors, dancers, and musicians from Jump-Start and La Pocha Nostra.

Jungle Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the production of A Cup of Coffee by Preston Sturges. The play will be directed by artistic director Bain Boehlke.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$12,000
To support the 2004 New Works Festival. The festival will feature a mainstage production of a new American play, seven staged readings of new plays, and staged readings of new works by young writers through the PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) Fest.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$44,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater piece based on the Greek myth of Perseus. Artistic Director Ellen Stewart will adapt and direct the play and Elizabeth Swados will compose original music.

LAByrinth, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and premiere production of a new theater work tentatively titled Massacre (Sing to Your Children) by Jose Rivera. The play will be directed by Kate Whoriskey.

Lantern Theater Company
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a production of Death and the King's Horseman by Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka. This multidisciplinary production will rely heavily on the incorporation of African music, dance, movement and drumming.

Lawrence Arts Center (on behalf of Seem to Be Players)
Lawrence, KS
$10,000
To support the development and touring of a bilingual play for young audiences based on Southwestern trickster folk tales. The Magic Shoes of Pedro the Trickster will be directed by Jose Cruz Gonzales, and will play to schools in Topeka, KS and Mesa, AZ.

Lincoln Center Theater (Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II. The works will be adapted by Dakin Matthews and directed by Jack O'Brien.

Long Wharf Theatre (Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.)
New Haven, CT
$38,000
To support the world premiere production of Fran's Bed, written and directed by Tony Award-winner James Lapine. Acclaimed actress and author Mia Farrow will perform the title role.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the development and workshop productions of a new theater work by Andrew White, inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984. The project will bring together a diverse group of artists to examine the novel's themes and incorporate film and other mass media elements into the performance.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and production of a new work by Korean American playwright Edward Bok Lee. Tentatively titled Whorled, the piece will be developed through workshops with invited audiences before going into rehearsal for full production.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation
New York, NY
$27,000
To support the development and tour of Cara Lucia, a new play by writer-director Sharon Fogarty. The production will tour to venues in California, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc. (MCC Theater)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of The Distance from Here by Neil LaBute. The play will be directed by David Leveaux.

Mark Taper Forum (Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the development and production of Sex Parasite, a new play by Jessica Goldberg. Luis Alfaro, producer of the Taper Too performance space, will oversee the production process.

McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
$40,000
To support a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, directed by Lisa Peterson. Sets for the production will be designed by scenic artist Michael Yeargan.

Mettawee Theatre Company
Salem, NY
$18,000
To support the creation, production, and presentation of an original outdoor performance piece inspired by The Pentamerone, a 17th-century collection of lively and humorous Neapolitan folktales. The production will be performed in outdoor venues throughout upstate New York and New England.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$35,000
To support the production of a classic play. As part of its 50th anniversary season, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre will produce A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Hungarian director Laszlo Marton.

Missouri Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
To support the production of a new translation and adaptation of a classic play. Director and writer Lillian Groag will be in residence at Missouri Repertory Theatre to direct a new version of Hungarian Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play, Liliom.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the presentation of two plays and the adaptation of a novel for future theater production. The project will support the work of female authors.

Mum Puppettheatre, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a play based on Friedrich Durrenmatt's theater work Der Besuch der Alten Dame (The Visit). The production will employ traditional puppet styles mixed with visual images and a sound collage to adapt the play for American audiences.

Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support the creation, development, and production of Evidence by Artistic Director Greg Allen. Playwright-musician John Pierson will compose the play's score.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the presentation of theater works by four international theater companies at the New Victory Theater. The company will present The Gruffalo by Tall Stories Theatre Company of England, Herman Melville's Moby Dick by Theater Triebwerk of Canada, Vivace by The Vivace Theatre of Germany, and La Felicite by Theatre de L'Oeil of Canada.

New Conservatory Theatre Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a new play by Terrence McNally. The project will be commissioned and developed through the Playwrights Commission & Residency Program and directed by artistic director Ed Decker.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Readings and Workshops program, which provides New Dramatists' resident company of playwrights with varied, flexible opportunities for the development of new work. This ongoing program enables extensive, creative development of new theater works in workshop processes tailored to the needs of the writer.

New Freedom Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and production of Kofifi, a new theater work celebrating the spirit of the people of South Africa. Music will be created and performed by Sharon Katz and her Peace Train band, with choreography by Patricia Scott Hobbs and writing and directing by Walter Dallas.

New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a production of Roar, a new play by Palestinian American writer Betty Shamieh. Roar looks at an ordinary Palestinian family living in Detroit just after the Gulf War and explores the ways their lives in America are affected by conflicts in the Middle East.

New Harmony Project, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$12,000
To support an annual playwrights conference in the community of New Harmony, IN. During each conference, competitively selected playwrights work in a supportive community of professional actors, directors, and dramaturgs to create new works for theater, musical theater, and film.

New Theatre (Teatro Nuevo, Inc.)
Coral Gables, FL
$15,000
To support the development, workshop, and production of a new play. Argentine-born Miami playwright Mario Diament will develop a new play, Blind Date, that probes the realities and perceptions of sighted and blind people.

New York Shakespeare Festival (Public Theater)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of Lisa Kron's Well, directed by Leigh Silverman, with dramaturgy by John Dias. The play examines individual and societal health and illness, exploring a model for building communities around these issues.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a production of Light Raise the Roof by award-winning playwright Kia Corthron, which was created and developed at New York Theatre Workshop.

Northern Prairie Performing Arts (Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre)
Fargo, ND
$10,000
To support the development of a professionally trained company that will tour communities and schools. Prairie Theatre Players will present a repertory of four plays for adults and youth throughout North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota.

Odyssey Theatre Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support the creation, development, and production of KOAN. Artistic director Ron Sossi will direct the play and oversee the collaboration with the company's ensemble and guest artists.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new play, tentatively entitled Human Beings with Multiple Brains, by artistic director Richard Foreman.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$55,000
To support the premiere production of Oedipus Complex, an original adaptation of the Greek classic by writer-director Frank Galati. The production's design team will include lighting designer Donald Holder, costume designer Mara Blumenfeld, and scenic designer James Schuette.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
$10,000
To support a production of Arthur Miller's classic, The Crucible. The theater will also present a series of interactive outreach programs about the relationship between the 17th-century Salem witch trials and 1950's McCarthyism.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$35,000
To support the development and production of On the Open Road by Steven Tesich. The play will be directed by artistic director Lou Bellamy with original music by composer William Banfield.

Perishable Theatre
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support the International Women's Playwright Festival. The festival will include the development and production of three one-act plays by female writers.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$30,000
To support the development and production of The Cannery Project, a new musical by Chay Yew, and the statewide tour of Bridget Carpenter's Up (The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair). Artistic director Peter DuBois will direct both plays and oversee The Cannery Project's collaboration between the playwright and composer Fabian Obispo.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the creation and premiere of Possessed, a new performance work inspired by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel. Pig Iron core company members will create the Gothic mystery-styled piece collaboratively through research and improvisation.

Ping Chong & Company (Fiji Theater Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the development and production of three new theater works through the Undesirable Elements series. The company will tour to communities in Florida, Kansas, and Washington, creating a new community-based work in each location.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$8,000
To support a production of Things of Dry Hours, a new play by playwright and poet Naomi Wallace. Israel Hicks will direct the production.

Piven Theatre Workshop
Evanston, IL
$8,000
To support the Chicago premiere of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl. A retelling of the classic Greek myth, this version gives the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from the female perspective.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 27th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival is a series of staged readings of new work by vanguard regional and national writers.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a series of new work development programs and two studio productions during the 2004 05 season. Approximately 1,500 new play and musical submissions will be evaluated, resulting in up to 20 play readings and musical theater workshops, three commissions, and two productions.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$13,000
To support the PlayLabs Festival. The program supports the development and presentation of new American plays by bringing together theater professionals and playwrights for workshops and play readings.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$28,000
To support the production of a classic play adapted to reflect contemporary issues. Portland Center Stage will host the U.S. premiere of Hungarian actor/director Robert Alfoldi's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support a three-tiered approach to the development of new work. By connecting the Clauder Competition, the Little Festival of the Unexpected, and a full-scale production of a selected work, the theater will develop professional opportunities for local writers.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre
Bronx, NY
$35,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play, The Red Rose Project. Artistic director Rosalba Rolon will write and direct the play and oversee the collaboration with company and guest artists during the creation and development of the piece.

Present Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will feature the works of over 200 theater companies and performing artists in 20 venues across New York City.

Providence Black Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the continued collaborative development of A Tribute to Langston Hughes. Through continued work on this company-created piece, the theater will provide an opportunity for repertory and community actors to expand and refine their skills.

Research Foundation of State University of New York
(on behalf of Performing Arts Center, Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of five theater works by New York City-based theater companies through the Theater Masterpieces series. Purchase College will present Betrayal by The Actors Studio, Othello and Agamemnon by Aquila Theatre Company, Radio Play by SITI Company, and Pericles, by Theatre for a New Audience.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$20,000
To support a production of Wintertime by Charles L. Mee. Award-winning guest artist Lou Jacob will direct.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the premiere production of a new play. Intimate Apparel, by Lynn Nottage, will inaugurate the opening of Roundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway home in New York City.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the development and production of Stadium Devildare. The project will be a collaboration with playwright Ruth Margraff.

Salt Lake Acting Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$12,000
To support the world premiere production of The Goshute Play by Julie Jensen. The play explores historical struggles between Mormon settlers in Utah and the Goshute Indians, an indigenous tribe.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$50,000
To support the final research, development, and world premiere production of Earthquake Sun by Luis Valdez. Earthquake Sun is a multilingual, multicultural piece inspired by the Mayan performance style.

Saratoga International Theater
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the development, design, and production of a new play adapted from a classic work. The new production of Death and the Ploughman, written in 1401 by humanist Johannes Von Saaz, will explore how one can live fully amidst the prospect of death.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support the premiere production of a new play for middle school audiences. Canadian playwright Joan Macleod wrote The Shape of A Girl in response to the actual murder of a 14-year-old girl, committed by a group of primarily adolescent girls.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the production of King Lear by William Shakespeare. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Sharon Ott.

Seven Loaves, Inc. (GOH Productions)
(on behalf of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre)
$10,000
New York, NY
To support the production of Golem by Artistic Director Vit Horejs. The production is a restaging of this interdisciplinary work for marionettes and live performers.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$55,000
To support productions of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I and Part II. Produced consecutively within the theater's mainstage season, both plays will be directed by Bill Alexander, honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of Mr. Fox: A Rumination by Bill Irwin. Irwin will serve as playwright, director, and performer for the production.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the creation and production of Iphigenia, a new multimedia performance piece. Based on Euripides' texts and other classical material, the production will feature various styles of puppetry, video projections, and unusual scenic elements.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the Writer/Director Lab. The Lab is a play development program in which six emerging playwrights are paired with a director to write and develop a new play.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$55,000
To support the development and production of Safe in Hell by Amy Freed. The play will be directed by Artistic Director David Emmes.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$45,000
To support the world premiere of a new play. Steppenwolf Theatre Company will produce a mainstage production of Tracy Letts's new play, Man From Nebraska.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the production of Tennessee Williams' Not About Nightingales. Artistic Director Joy Zinoman will direct the play.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
To support the Sundance Theatre Laboratory, a professional development program for theater artists. The project will use the support of resource artists and mentors to develop new scripts, staged adaptations of previously written narratives, and develop new interpretations of classic texts.

Sweet Jane Productions, Inc. (on behalf of International WOW Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work entitled Death of Nations. Guest artists from Argentina, Japan, and Thailand will collaborate with the company ensemble in the development and presentation of the play.

Synchronicity Performance Group, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$8,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a theater work through the Women in War project. The project will be lead by Artistic Directors Rachel May, Hope Mirlis, and Michele Pearce, and filmmaker Carol Cassidy will assist in the research and development of the piece.

Syracuse Stage (S.U. Theatre Corporation)
Syracuse, NY
$25,000
To support a production of Tazewell Thompson's Constant Star, a play with music about the life of African American civil rights activist Ida B. Wells. The play will be performed in special high school matinees, accompanied by teacher workshops and classroom study materials.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the continued development of a new production based on both parts of Goethe's Faust. The performance piece will be developed over an extended period of readings, discussions, open rehearsal workshops, and work-in-progress viewings for invited audiences.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and development of Variations on a Portrait. Artistic Director Moises Kaufman will lead the research phase of the project as well as the two, three-week developmental workshop productions.

Theater Labrador, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of Three Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin. The play will be directed by Loretta Greco.

Theater Mu, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new play, From Shadows to Light by Ka Vang. Artistic director Cecilie Keenan will direct the play.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
To support the revision and production of an original theater work. Theatre de la Jeune Lune will remount The Ballroom, a play about 20th-century American history seen through the lens of a Midwestern social hall.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the production of two plays. Frederick Wiseman will direct The Last Letter, adapted from the Russian novel Life And Fate by Vassily Grossman, and Bartlett Sher will direct Pericles, Prince Of Tyre by William Shakespeare.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The play will be adapted and directed by artistic director John Flax and developed in collaboration with the company's ensemble.

Theatre of Yugen
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the development and production of a play based on a literary classic. This theatrical adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella, The Old Man and the Sea, will fuse the author's unique writing style with the structure and stylistic elements of Japanese Noh and Kyogen theater.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$55,000
To support the world premiere production of The Buz'Gem Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor, a member of the Ojibway Nation. Elizabeth Theobald Richards of the Cherokee Nation, who has led numerous script development workshops with Native American playwrights, will direct.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the world premiere production of How His Bride Came to Abraham by Karen Sunde. Sunde will be in residence at the theater during rehearsals and for audience discussions during the performance run.

Unidentified Moving Objects
Vashon, WA
$8,000
To support the creation and development of a theater work based on the Grimms' Fairy Tale Rapunzel. The company ensemble will collaborate with guest artists in the creation and development of the piece.

University of California at Santa Barbara (on behalf of Center for Chicano Studies)
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new theater work through the New Voices/New Visions Summer Lab initiative. The Center for Chicano Studies, in collaboration with Chicano Poet/Performance-Artist Jimmy Santiago and theater collective Campo Santo, will produce a new work exploring the lives of Chicano working class.

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
$15,000
To support the creation, development, and production of Babel. Resident designers Marianne Custer and Kenton Yeager will design the physical production and artistic director Blake Robison will oversee the collaboration between writer-director Alain Timar of Teatro de Hal of Avignon, France and an international ensemble of partners.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support a workshop and second production of The Romance of Magno Rubio by Lonnie Carter, based on a short story by the blacklisted Filipino poet and activist Carlos Bulosan.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the activities of the Kitty Carlisle Hart Musical Theatre Lab and the New Play Development Lab. The theater will formalize and expand these artistic initiatives to assist more artists with the creative process, and involve them more directly in the organization and its community.

Walk & Squawk Performance Project
Detroit, MI
$15,000
To support the creation of a new theater piece by U.S. and South African artists during successive residencies in KwaZulu-Natal and Detroit. The Walking Project will look at the ways in which geography and patterns of movement affect our perceptions and lives.

Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation
Salinas, CA
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theatrical work for the stage. The Salinas Stories Project will combine material gleaned from historical texts, interviews, and community stories to recount the experiences of Salinas's Japanese American residents who were incarcerated in internment camps.

William Inge Festival Foundation
Independence, KS
$10,000
To support guest artist residencies. The William Inge Theatre Festival will bring professional directors and actors to collaborate with playwrights-in-residence in readings, workshops, and the development of new plays.

Women's Project & Productions
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Developmental Theatre Program. The program includes The Directors Forum, Playwrights Lab, First Looks rehearsal readings, and Works-in-Progress workshops.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$45,000
To support the production of Shakespeare's King Lear. Harold Scott will direct the play with acclaimed actor Avery Brooks in the title role.

Young Playwrights, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival 2004. The festival features workshops, staged readings, and full productions, and is designed to train young playwrights, serve emerging playwrights with development opportunities, and expose audiences to new plays.

Z Space Studio (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support a pilot New Works Initiative that tests a multi-institutional model for development and production of new works for the theater. Jointly managed by Z Space and the Magic Theatre, the pilot will bring together 15 distinguished writers and eight California producing companies.

Heritage/Preservation

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (on behalf of Lee@aboutchat.org)
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
To support the production and tour of plays about Hmong culture and history in Minnesota and Wisconsin. A touring company of Hmong actors will perform a repertory of four plays developed to educate audiences about Hmong traditions and heritage and to create dialogue about social issues within the Hmong community.

El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$15,000
To support the production of a traditional miracle play. Professional and community artists will participate in the production of La Virgen del Tepeyac at the San Juan Bautista Mission.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the production and translation of a classic Spanish play. Los Titeres de Cachiporra, or Tragicomedia de don Cristobal y la sena Rosita, by Federico Garcia Lorca, will be performed in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation at GALA's new permanent performance facility.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a consortium project to preserve and document the theatrical works of two theater companies. Cultural Odyssey and AfroSolo will partner in an archival project to document, display, and publish the historic contributions of each organization to honor the groups' 25th and 10th anniversaries, respectively.

New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine . The journal highlights Latino theater through essays and interviews by and with Latino artists and writers.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for theater sign language interpreters. The goal of the program is to support and preserve the art of sign-interpreting, set national standards of excellence in the field, and to ensure that theater is accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired audiences.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Repertory Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$12,000
To support the development and production of a new play that celebrates rodeo as an integral part of the culture of the American West. Playwright Jim McClure and musician Rob Quist will tour the Montana rodeo circuit to conduct research and collect materials from which to develop a script and score.

Wichita State University (consortium)
Wichita, KS
$15,000
To support a consortium project that will make an extensive collection of video interviews with leading American playwrights accessible in digital formats. The interviews are the product of an ongoing 22-year collaboration with the William Inge Theatre Festival.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Nancy Quinn Fund and the Theatre Leadership Institute technical assistance programs. The two initiatives provide management-related technical assistance to small and mid-size theater companies nationally.

Assitej/USA, Incorporated
Nashville, TN
$25,000
To support the publication and distribution of TYA Today, the Marquee directory, and the expansion of the Observership Program. The project will encourage critical development of professional theatre for young audiences.

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Directors Project. The Directors Project is a national apprenticeship for young directors that provides opportunities for them to work with professionals in off-Broadway or regional theaters.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support publication and distribution of Chicagoplays. The theater program magazine will feature articles, show listings, maps, and program information for Chicago's theater community.

National New Play Network
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support The Continued Life Fund, an initiative that provides production stipends to theaters committed to presenting sequential productions of a new play. The pilot project supported by the fund will be the world premiere of Permanent Collections, by Thomas Gibbons, at InterAct Theatre Company.

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Inclusion Project, which includes Artist Files Online and the National Diversity Forum. The projects are designed to assist nonprofit theaters in achieving greater diversity.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support components of a major upgrade to the Theatre Bay Area Web site. A members-only area will be added to increase professional communication among Bay Area artists and organizations and the site will be assessed for accessibility.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$125,000
To support professional and leadership development programs for the nonprofit theater field. The programs are targeted to artistic and managing leaders, middle managers, and trustees of member theaters, and are designed to increase organizational effectiveness and improve management expertise.

VSA arts of Florida
Tampa, FL
$15,000
To support Artists & Audiences: Available for All, a project promoting increased accessibility to the performing arts for artists and audience members with disabilities. VSA arts of Florida will work with a local performing arts center on accessibility improvements to develop a model that can be replicated by other VSA arts affiliates.

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