2007 MCAF Grantees: Theater
- Banana Boat Productions, Banana Boat Caribbean Play-Reading Series
- To support the Caribbean Reading Room, a series of four free play readings, celebrating under-produced Caribbean plays and playwrights, in low-income neighborhoods in Manhattan
- Bitetti, Bronwen, Postcard Plays
- To support a twenty-minute performance piece in an Experimental Text Festival hosted by the Ontological-Hysteric Theater
- blessed unrest theatre, inc., 365 Days/365 Plays Festival
- To support seven free performances of seven new plays by Suzan-Lori Parks in Hell's Kitchen for the 365 Days/365 Plays Festival
- Broken Watch Theater Company, Two Thirds Home by Padraic Lillis
- To support an eight-week (four weeks rehearsal, three weeks performances) Actor's Equity Seaonal Showcase production of the developmental work Two-Thirds Home by Padraic Lillis
- Corbin, Gary, Four One-Legged Men
- To support "Four One-Legged Men", a one-man play with four vignettes tht depict four distinct male right leg amputees from different backgrounds, seasons and eras; to be hosted by Theater for the New City
- Crossing Jamaica Avenue, Contemporary Japanese Play Reading Series Part I - The Elephant: an absurdist play by one of the most renown Japanese playwright
- To support an annual contemporary Japanese play reading series in collaboration with American performing artists
- Currier, Shoshona, Clash
- To support the production of a three-week run of the play "Clash", a new piece of theater that deals with the issue of love, marriage and immigration specifically looking at international marriage/cross-cultural romantic partnerships and how marriage laws and visa/red-tape issues affect couples in those relationships
- Developing Artists Theater Company, Rebel Verses: New Works Festival
- To support a two-week, youth-based theater festival, featuring 20 new works by various youth organizations and emerging playwrights, directors, and actors from around the metropolitan area
- Duffy, Alec, Suzan-Lori Parks in Gardens
- To support the performance of new plays by Suzan-Lori Parks in a community garden in a diverse neighborhood in upper Manhattan, as well as in gardens in four other boroughs and ultimately at the Public Theater
- Gotham City, Improv, That's komedi da!
- To support the development and production of a bi-lingual comedy imrov show in order to promote cultural understanding between English-speaking Japanese nationals, Japanese-speaking Americans and non-Japanese-speaking Americans
- Kahn, Barbara, 1918: A House Divided
- To support a three-week off--off-Broadway showcase of a new musical drama set in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn in 1918
- LaMicro Theater, Inc., Latino Plays on The Road Project II
- To support "Latino Plays on the Road Project II" consisting of a series of three bilingual participatory readings and a final fully-staged bilingual production (8 performances) which will take place in four different locations in Manhattan (including Washington Heights, Hispanic Harlem, Alphabet City and the Lower East Side)
- Linton, Simi, My Body Politic: An Illustrated History
- To support a multi-media performance piece over three nights about the politics, culture and lived experience of disability in America
- Littleway, Lorna, First Ladies of War
- To support the presenttation of a concert reading of a new musical "First Ladies of War" about women's contributions to the American Revolution; intended for young audiences as part of Dramatists Guild's "Friday Footlights" series
- Resonance Ensemble Corporation, Playwright Residency Program for J. Holtam/LOVERS TO BED
- To support the development of a new script of a Manhattan-based playwright inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, utilizing input from multi-ethnic actors and a director, culminating in a free public staged reading
- Ryan, Kate Moira, Beebo Brinker
- To support the production of a new play, "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles", adapted from the 1950s lesbian pulp novel series by Ann Bannon
- Thomson, Lynn M., Parlor Song
- To support the staged book-in-hand presentation of an original musical, devised though dramaturgical process, incorporating American history and music in an investigation of American identity; to be performed at Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 16, 2007
- Von Holt, Laura, St. Joan of the Stockyards
- To support the collaboration of emerging, New York City-based artists on a new adaptation of Brecht's "St. Joan of the Stockyards" with the purpose of introducing the piece to a young contemporary audience
- Yamazoe, Yukako, Story in a Story
- To support a production of "Story in a Story," 3 days of performance for Japanese American kids, featuring stories of 19th century Japan
