2011 MCAF Grantees: Theater
- Blessed Unrest Theatre, Inc.
- Machinai, an ensemble-driven production of Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play, culminating in sixteen public performances.
- Syreeta Covington
- In the Cypher, a monthly powerhouse show where theater meets slam poetry in an entertaining discourse about the experience of skin color.
- Steve Cuiffo
- Lenny Bruce: Alive in Greenwich Village, a theatrical simulacrum in which Steve Cuiffo will channel the legendary artist with a verbatim re-enactment of Bruce's timeless satires in site specific Greenwich Village locations that Bruce himself performed.
- Danisar Productions
- Los Nuevos Valores/The New Theatrical Project, composed of multigenerational bilingual playwriting and acting workshops, script development and public readings, ending in a theatrical festival of the developed original plays in English and/or Spanish.
- Four Seas Players
- Wash n' Fold @ Route 285, made up of six performances of an original theatrical work in Cantonese Chinese with English subtitles over two weekends in 2011.
- Fulcrum Theater
- Julius by Design, a new play by Harlem-based Kara Lee Corthron, which will be presented by Fulcrum Theater, a company dedicated to producing New York based playwrights of color.
- Martha Goode
- The Re-Education of Arizona, a new play that examines the ramifications Arizona's controversial new immigration reform has on a small town elementary school and its students.
- Christine T. Johnson
- Internal Bleeding, an exploration of the possibility of using a disabled actor in the lead role of Christine Toy Johnson's play Internal Bleeding, culminating in a public reading and discussion titled "Creative Solutions to Casting Actors with Disabilities".
- Petronia Johnson
- On the Way to Timbuktu, a multimedia one-person dramatic play with live music and projections. The work explores the pivotal and defining events in a woman's life leading up to and including her mental breakdown.
- Donna Kaz
- Performing Tribute: The Stories of September 11th, a series of four public performances presented at four locations in Manhattan in the months leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
- Derek L. McPhatter
- The Fire This Time Festival 2011, a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African descent to explore challenging new directions for 21st century performing arts and move beyond common ideas of what is possible in "black theater".
- Allyson Morgan
- The Spring Fling, an evening of one-act plays by both up-and-coming and established New York playwrights performed site-specifically around themes of hookups, breakups, makeups, and everything in between.
- National Asian Artists Project, Inc.
- Discover: New Musicals, an open-call for new stage musicals culminating in a free one-day presentation of staged readings of four works selected from submissions by talented performers and theatre artists of Asian ancestry for the general public in downtown Manhattan.
- Daniel A. Nelson
- Watch Me Vanish, a new theater piece created and directed by Daniel Nelson, culminating in a three-week run of eleven performances at La MaMa ETC. This theatrical work explores the phenomena of vanishing and disappearance and its effect on human life.
- Una A. Osato
- Recess for All!, a series of ten performances and workshops serving people who are invested and interested in the young people of NYC.
- People' s Theatre Project, Inc.
- Action Theatre / Teatro Accion, a bilingual performing ensemble of actors and non-actors in Northern Manhattan, culminating in an original, interactive play about immigration, created and performed by the ensemble and presented for the community.
- LaVern Rector
- Mama'z Boyz, a play consisting of monologues about men over fifty years old who still live at home with their mother.
- Sign of the Times Theater Company
- The Ugly Duckling, a new adaptation of the Ugly Duckling that will be performed in both American sign language and spoken English.
- Ben Spatz
- The Boys, an intense, two-person physical drama that explores issues of masculinity, childhood, and violence through a low-tech, high-craft theatrical composition integrating original songs, text, and movement.
- Studio Six Theater Company
- Winter Winter, the translation of one of Russia's most celebrated playwrights, Evgeny Grishkovet, designed by the award winning Simon Pastukh with sixteen performances and a series of post performance talk-backs and panels with the author.
- Clockwork Theatre, Inc.
- Clockwork's 2011 Main-Stage Production, the Altruists, by Nicky Silver, the Clockwork Theatre's Off-Broadway, main stage production at Theatre Row.
- Up Theater Company
- All the Best Ingredients, a new full-length dramatic play by Inwood resident James Bosley.
- Catherine Videt
- That time, and the time before that, and - a devised, interdisciplinary performance work which tells the story of a single event and space as remembered by a group of people.
