2008 Fund Grantees: Theater
- Banana Boat Productions, Mamma Decemba
- To support artist fees and production expenses for Mamma Decemba, aplay by Jamaican author Nigel D, Moffatt.
- Debate Society, The, The Untitled Auto Play
- To support the World Premiere production of The Debate Society’s newest play, The Untitled Auto Play, to be performed at Performance Space 122 in November 2008
- Around the Block, Inc., Urban Theater in Libraries and Other Centers
- To support 12 performances and public readings of 12 new urban plays created during a biweekly playwriting workgroup.
- Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Zoraida
- To support the artistic fees associated with a one-act play that will be performed 12 times over a two-week run in the Flamboyan Theater.
- Crossing Jamaica Avenue, Inc., 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, co-produced with Vice & Vision Theater, to be performed at the Lower East Side’s Culture Project.
- Danisar Productions, Inc., Los Nuevos Valores/The New Treasures
- To support bilingual, multigenerational playwriting and acting workshops, culminating in a festival of new plays at the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center in East Harlem.
- Delphi Theatre, The, Productions of “Die Fledermaus” and “The Crucible”
- To support six performances of “Die Fledermaus” and six performances of “The Crucible.”
- Desipina Productions, Inc., Seven.11 Convenience Theater (2008)
- To support Seven.11 Convenience Theatre, a show that takes seven, 11-minute plays, all set in a convenience store, and weaves them together.
- Jewish Theater of New York Incorporated, The, MY NAME IS RABBI MEIR KAHANE
- To support the set design and construction for the play, MY NAME IS RABBI MEIR KAHANE.
- Juneteenth Festival, Mainstage Series
- To support 6 performances of two bio-dramas, “Juneteenth Cotton Club Revue” and “Faith, Hope, and Charity: The May MacLeod Bethune Story.”
- LaMicro Theater Inc., A fully staged production of Groenlandia by Gabriel Peveroni
- To support the production of Groenlandia by Uruguayan playwright Gabriel Peveroni in the fall of 2008 at Where Eagles Dare Theater in Midtown Manhattan.
- Latin America Theater Experiment and Associates, ASI SOMOS/ AS WE ARE
- To support a Bilingual Playwright Festival productions of new one-act contemporary plays by Latino playwrights.
- MOOSE HALL THEATER COMPANY, The Curse of Capistrano (El Zorro)
- To support 12 free outdoor performances of a play written by Ted Minos, based on the novella by Johnston McCulley, as part of the Inwood Shakespeare Festival’s 2008 season in Inwood Hill Park.
- NY Artists Unlimited, “EBONY BLACK”
- To support a tour of 35 performances/discussions of “Ebony Black” to Manhattan’s under-served children and family audiences, mainly African-American, Latino and Asian
- Our Time Theatre Company, Inc., Teen Play Project
- To support the Teen Play Project, in which 15 teens who stutter meet over a 34-week period to write, rehearse, and perform an original production with music.
- Rebel Theater Company, Inc., The Black Doctor
- To support the production of a modern adaptation of the classic “The Black Doctor.”
- Second Generation Productions, Inc., ELEVEN [1+5+5], an Eleven Play, Three-Part Festival
- To support an eleven-play, three-part festival, featuring the premier of TBA by Carla Ching, five one-act plays, and 5 free staged readings of new plays.
- Vampire Cowboys, Inc., Fight Girl/Battle World
- To support the production of “Fight Girl/Battle World” a new theatrical work marrying sci-fi, stage combat, and multimedia.
