2009 MCAF Grantees: Theater
- Art for Change
- To support CALLE, youth street theater troupe performing in and around the streets of East Harlem during its summer season.
- Blessed Unrest, Inc.
- To support a contemporary adaptation from the original Russian of Chekhov’s Ivanov, Nick, by company member Laura Wickens, culminating in 16 public performances in Hell’s Kitchen.
- Jeff Clarke
- To support Performance Lab 115's world premiere of Artifact of Consequence by playwright Ashlin Halfnight, to be performed at the Wild Project in collaboration with Electric Pear Productions in the East Village in April 2009.
- Crossing Jamaica Avenue, Inc.
- To support a 4-week full production run of a new American play, I Have Been To Hiroshima Mon Amour and Words from Hiroshima, a reading series of 3 plays by Japanese playwrights about the atomic bombing.
- Drilling Company Theatrical Productions, The
- To support free professional performances of “Julius Caesar,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Measure for Measure” in the parking lot at the corner of Ludlow and Broome from July to September 2009.
- Melissa / The AnthropologistsFendell
- To support a full-length production of an ensemble-devised play about the 1917 food riots of New York City, to be performed in the Lower East Side.
- Daniel Allen Nelson
- To support a new experimental theater piece, Don’t Peek, to be presented in a three week run of 9 performances at LaMama ETC in September 2009.
- Packawallop Productions, Inc.
- To support a theater workshop and in progress presentation of a new play involving video.
- Resonance Ensemble Corporation
- To support 16 public performances of the new classically-inspired play 23 Knives by Christopher Stetson Boal.
- StageFARM, The
- To support The Gingerbread House, to be presented in Spring 2009 at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in the West Village of Manhattan.
- Theatre Askew
- To support a New York premiere production of Combury: The Queen’s Governor, a play by William M. Hoffman and Anthony Holland, at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Chelsea.
- WaxFactory, Inc.
- To support a new multi-disciplinary theater work, Delirium 27, in collaboration with artists from New York, Slovenia, Sweden, and Italy will be presented in open rehearsals and pubic dialogue sessions on international collaboration.
