2011 Fund Grantees: Theater
- Banana Boat Productions
- FIX-UP is a play by Jamaican author Kwame Kwei-Armah with various sociological, political and religious themes. There will be ten performances and two special performances for high schools with post-show workshops with the director and cast.
- Crossing Jamaica Avenue, Inc.
- FanMacbeth is an intercultural, experimental movement theater piece which explores characteristics of traditional Japanese fan traditions through the lens of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
- Danisar Productions
- Los Nuevos Valores/The New Theatrical Project is 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.
- The Debate Society, Ltd.
- Untitled World's Fair Play is the company’s newest full-length theater performance, developed in ensemble rehearsals and produced for sixteen performances. The play centers around a mysterious love story that spans from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to the Chicago World's Fair of 1933.
- Fulcrum Theater
- Julius by Design is a new play that recounts how one couple deals with the devastation they are left with after the murder of their son. The play asks how we recover from violent crime and what the limits are of our own capacity to forgive.
- Herbert Berghof Studio, Inc.
- The HB Ensemble will pilot a new program that gives emerging theatre artists the opportunity to further their training through an in-depth, process-oriented rehearsal and performance. A different Artistic Director will be appointed each year to develop the the thematic and artistic content of the season.
- Hudson Guild, Inc.
- Punishment: Two Plays in Repertory will feature The Letter by Somerset Maugham and The Exonerated by Jessica Black and Erik Jensen. Fourteen performances will be staged over three weeks. The Company is open to community members with no experience required.
- Latin American Theater Experiment & Associates
- La Luz De Un Cigarrillo: A Dominican-York Story is a play by Dominican playwright Marco Rodriquez dealing with the difficulties of acculturation faced by new immigrants.
- Moose Hall Theatre Company
- War of the Worlds, adapted by Ted Minos, will be performed during twelve free outdoor performances as part of the Inwood Shakespeare Festival's 2011 season in Inwood Hill Park.
- National Asian Artists Project, Inc.
- DISCOVER: New Musicals is 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.
- The New Stage Theatre Company, Inc.
- Hanussen is an original play created by Ildiko Nemeth, premiering at the Clemente Soto Velez "Flamboyan" Theatre on the Lower East Side during November/December 2011.
- NY Artists Unlimited, Inc.
- Isaiah's Dream - A Parade of Poets is a theatrical performance centered around a boy's journey in dreams learning about every culture's struggles and survival through art from great poets in history.
- Studio Six Theater Company
- Winter is a production of translation of Russia's celebrated Evgeny Grishkovets' seminal play. It will be designed by the award winning Simon Pastukh in downtown Manhattan with sixteen performances and a series of post-performance talk-backs and panels with the author and creative team.
- West Side Community Garden
- Shakespeare for Children and Adults is a series of ten, one-hour performances of a child-friendly adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, including active child participation.
