2008 MCAF Grantees: Theater
- Alison Russo, house+play
- To support exploration/investigation and work-in-progress performance of a radical adaptation of Luigi Priandello’s Right You Are if You Think You Are.
- Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initiative, Inc., New Indigenous Voices
- To support five staged readings, performances, and post-show discussions of new plays/works by indigenous writers.
- Banana Boat Productions, Banana Boat Caribbean Reading Room Series
- To support Artist Fees and production expenses for the Caribbean Reading Room, a series of 3 free play readings, celebrating under-produced Caribbean plays and playwrights, in low-income neighborhoods in Manhattan.
- blessed unrest theatre, inc., The Kosova Project, Part 3
- To support an international collaboration with Teatri Oda of Prishtina, Kosova, culminating in 7 public performances of an original bilingual play in Hell’s Kitchen.
- Blue Coyote Theater Group, Effie Jean in Tahiti
- To support a new musical theater piece for children loosely based on classical Greek tragedy, including scoring for live instruments and voiced parts, for a concert reading and ultimately a full-scale production.
- Carlo D’Amore, “FEET FIRST” A one actor dramatic play
- To support a two staged performances happening in Manhattan of a new autobiographical solo play about my uncle, a Peruvian immigrant who came to America looking for the American Dream but once in this country he spent the last twenty-five years of his life n prison.
- Claudia Norman, Norvak Poderoso de Mente, as part of Celebrate Mexico Now 2008
- To support Celebrate Mexico Now, a multi-disciplinary festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture, to present Norak Poderoso de Mente in two shows.
- Crossing Jamaica Avenue, I Have Been To Hiroshima Mon Amour
- To support a workshop production of Chiori Miyagawa’s new play, I Have Been To HIroshima Mon Amour, to be performed at Culture Project, a two-week workshop period of rehearsal and 3 performances, in preparation for a final full production in Midtown East in February 2009.
- Isaiah Tanenbaum, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Imagination Compact
- To support fifteen performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and four staged readings of 12 short plays inspired from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Jeffrey Mousseau, Aunt Leaf
- To support development process and subsequent workshop presentation of Aunt Leaf, a new original theater piece with music for family audiences.
- Jodi Dick, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- To support four to six performances at 6B Community Garden in the East Village.
- Joshua Bob Rose, The Frankophile
- To support eight to ten weekend performances of a new work, the Frankophile, written by resident playwright of City Attic Theatre, Melissa Gawlowski.
- Lenora Louise Champagne, TRACES/fades
- To support four performances of TRACES/fades at the Ohio Theatre.
- Living Theater Inc., The, Staged Reading Series
- To support a monthly series of staged readings to be held at The Living Theatre.
- Lorca Peress d/b/a MutiStages, The Judas Tree
- To support the world premiere production of its 2007 multidisciplinary New Works Contest Winner, The Judas Tree, by Mary Fengar Gail.
- Maria Yoon, Maria the Korean Bride: A One Woman Show
- To supporta production of art, film, and live performance.
- Maura Farver, Sympathetic Division
- To support four weeks of rehearsals and a workshop of a new play, Sympathetic Division, culminating in four fully-staged, multimedia, theatrical performances with a multi-level set.
- Midtown Community Court, CHOICES
- To support 2-hour customized and interdisciplinary art development sessions for sexually exploited women, culminating in a final production in which the women, local actors and playwrights perform the women’s poetry and screenplays
- New Worlds Theatre Project, Inc., With the Current
- To support 15 performances over three weeks at Center Stage of an English translation/adaptation of a play entitled “With the Current” by Sholem Asch.
- Pat Golden, Ed Bullins: The Twentieth Century Cycle
- To support theatrical production by an African American playwright in collaboration with Cherry Lane Theatre’s Studio Theater, the “Cherry Pit.”
- Phyllis MacBryde, Zinzi
- To support four performances of Zinzi, a new musical presented to the public.
- Spiderwoman Theater Workshop, Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
- To support a new theater piece in collaboration with elders and youth from the Native American community, to be presented in a staged reading.
- Terra Incognita Theater Inc., Hair of Sand
- To support twelve weeks of performance installations at Manhattan museums and galleries.
- The New York Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
- To support ever-changing (weekly) attempt to write, produce, and perform Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, 30 plays in 60 minutes at The Kraine theater in the East Village.
- the stageFARM, inc., “WIN”
- To support a series of ten-minute plays commissioned by the stageFARM.
- The Striking Viking Story Pirates Inc., 2008 Summer/Fall Mainstage Season
- To support a weekly, Saturday matinee in which The Story Pirates adapt and perform stories written by kids in New York City in an award-winning revue, featuring puppets, music, and professional actors.
- Wings Theatre Company, Dutch Courage
- To support a fully-staged production of the musical Dutch Courage at Wings Theatre Company’s theater in Greenwich Village.
- Wingspan Arts, Cabaret Troupe
- To support public performances of contemporary and classic musical theater by Wingspan Arts Cabaret Troupe.
- Alec Duffy , The less we talk, the better
- To Support the rental of rehearsal space for the production of Hoi Polloi’s new piece, The Less We Talk, The Better, culminating in a three week run in 2008.
- Barbara Kahn , The Ghosts of 14th Street
- To produce a four week, 16-performance showcase of The Ghosts of 14th Street, s historical play set in New York City in 1908.
- Bronwen Bitetti, Casting Off
- To help produce a full-length performance in the Incubator Summer Residency Program at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in the East Village.
- Desipina Productions, Inc, Workshop Production Festival: Prince of Delhi Palace and The Lies We Tell Ourselves
- To support a workshop production of two full-length plays, to run in rep with one another, for a total of 12 performances (six performances each) for two weeks in Murray (Curry) Hill.
- Drilling Company Theatrical Productions, The, TRADE: A collection of new short works by emerging American writers
- To support a 3-week, 12 performance short play project of eight commissioned new short works around a common theme...
- Horizon Theatre Rep,. Inc., Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- To support the staging of 16 performances of the play “Animal Far,” by George Orwell.
- LaVern Rector, Harlem Pigeons
- To Support a play, “Harlem Pigeons,” which will be performed by The Senior Citizen Drama Workshop in Harlem.
- Liza Zapol, Detritus
- To support rehearsal space and production costs to develop a non fiction based performance about trash, culminating in a two performance showing as a part of the Prospect Theatre’s Dark Nights Series.
- Lorna Littleway, Field Day
- To support costs of participating in “Field Day” a non-curated showcase of new and experimental works.
- Maja Milanovic, Lilitu’s Girls cabaret
- To support 4 musicians/4 singers, plus a recording studio rental fee for recording the songs on a CD that would market our play and help attract further funds.
- Manhattan Comedy Collective , Character Dogville
- To support direction by Rob Neill, of the Neofuturists, to shape the format of the only improvisational comedy show in Times Square for greater appeal and regular audiences.
- Martin Balmaceda, Shattering Borders, Building Identities
- To support a six-session, two week theater workshop ending with a performance open to the public.
- Morna M. Martell, A Mini-Midsummer Night Dream
- To support an interactive Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” for families in an outdoor public garden on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
- Partial Comfort Productions, Saturn Return
- To support artists fees to apply to the final production of our 2007-2008 season, “Saturn Return” by Chad Beckim, to take place in The Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row Studios.
- Rebel Theater Company, Inc., The Black Doctor
- To support a two week, 12 show, production of a modern adaptation of the classic “The Black Doctor” presenting Act One in Paris during the French Revolution, and Act Two recreated through contemporary views set in New Orleans’ French Quarter during Hurricane Katrina.
- Resonance Ensemble Corporation, Commission and Workshop for Chris Boal’s UNTITLED ROMAN FORENSICS project
- To supporta week-long workshop of a new play inspired by Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” by a New York City-based writer with a group of professional actors and a director, culminating in a free public staged reading of the script.
- Rising Circle Theater Collective, Inc., The Refugee Project
- To support the Rising Circle Theater Collective is To support three, day-long play development workshops and a week long rehearsal of an original play that will culminate in a free staged reading for the public for three nights at a venue in Manhattan.
- Wakka Wakka Productions, Inc. , Fabrik
- To support the creation and performance of “Fabrik,” and original piece of theater with puppets, masks, music, for a five week run in the Garment District.
- Wendy McClellan, A Good Neighborhood
- To support the creation of A Good Neighborhood, a living-history project about the community transition taking place in Inwood.
