2007 Fund Grantees: Theater
- Around the Block
- To support the project "Theatre Arts in Library Branches", involving performances and public readings of at least 12 new urban plays in January through August 2007, and bi-weekly playwriting workgroups, 15-session beginners acting course and 15-session directing course
- Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initiative, Inc.
- To support five staged readings/performances and post-show discussion of new plays/works by indigenous writers/artists
- Banana Boat Productions
- To support 8-10 performances of "The Ritual (or Friday Morning First Period)" by Trinidadian author Zeno Constance, along with 2 performance discussions for audiences with the director and cast
- Danisar Productions, Inc.
- To support bilingual multi-generational playwriting, script development and acting workshops under the guidance of well-known professional artists, culiminating in a theatrical festival of original new plays in English and Spanish at The Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center in East Harlem
- Desipina Productions, Inc.
- To support writers workshop labs starting in January 2007 resulting in sixteen performances of Seven.11 Convenience Theatre 2007
- Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Inc.
- To support a workshop of Mrinalini Kamath's "Golden Fleece Project" in June 2007, culminating in three staged readings, to be presented in conjunction with the first National Asian American Theatre Festival
- God's Love We Deliver (The Debate Society)
- To support the world premiere production of The Debate Society's newest play "The Eaten Heart" to be performed at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater in May 2007
- Holy Trinity Church, Inwood (The Delphi Theatre)
- To support six performances of "Don Pasquale" and six performances of "The Lion in Winter"
- Hourglass Group, Ltd.
- To support the development and presentation of new solo works by a collective of diverse women solo artists
- Hudson Guild
- To support a bilingual (English/Spanish) community theater presentation of Don Quixote by Hudson Guild Theater Company in Chelsea
- Knowledge Project, The
- To support artist fees for three theater programs at Teatro La Tea
- Moose Hall Theatre Company
- To support 12 free outdoor performances of "Spartacus" written and directed by Ted Minos as part of the Inwood Shakespeare Festival's 2007 season in Inwood Hill Park Peninsula
- NY Artists Unlimited, Inc.
- To support 35 performances/discussions of "Voices of the Town - A Vaudeville Salute!" to Manhattan's under-served audiences, mainly African-American youth, immigrants and women
- Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
- To support rehearsal and production of the annual Teen Play Project, including 34 weeks of rehearsal and an end-of-season production
- Rising Circle Theater, Inc.
- To support 12 performances of "Portraits" a theater piece that investigates family life, based on text from the oral histories of five people of color living in New York City, at Teatro LA TEA in the Lower East Side in Februrary 2007
- Second Generation Productions, Inc.
- To support free "In the Works" reading series, including "Ten" an evening of ten-minute plays, featuring David Henry Hwang and 9 other Asian American playwrights
- Tong Xiao Ling Chinese Opera Ensemble Ltd.
- To support a three hour stage performance, including cost of costumes, stage setting, stage lighting/sound and performing artistis and musicians
