2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 14, 2005 deadline ]

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Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Theater

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (ACT, ACT Theatre)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a production of the classic American text The Women by Clare Boothe Luce.

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support the development and premiere of a play adapted from Monsieur Proust, a memoir by Celeste Albaret. She served as Marcel Proust's housekeeper during the years he wrote In Search of Lost Time.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000

To support the 30th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Seen by up to 30,000 people each year, festival highlights will include six fully produced, full-length plays, four ten-minute plays, an anthology project featuring the works of multiple writers, and panel discussions.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc. (ASF)
Montgomery, AL
$30,000
To support the 2006 Festival of New Plays. The festival includes the Southern Writers' Project, which encourages new works dealing with Southern issues and topics including those that emphasize African American experiences.

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the production of Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff, a play about life on the front lines duirng World War 1.

American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
To support the production of The Orpheus Project, a new work by composer and playwright Rinde Eckert in collaboration with award-winning videographer Denise Marika. The work will investigate the Orpheus myth from a variety of literary, visual, and historical perspectives.

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$30,000
To support the production of Steven Dietz's adaptation of William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure.

Barter Foundation, Incorporated State Theatre of Virginia (Barter Theatre)
Abingdon, VA
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of Road Where It Curves Away by Derek Davidson. The play gives voice to a group of serpent-handling Christians, still prevalent in Appalachian communities, whose national image has been historically fraught with ignorance and misconception.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$28,000
To support the world premiere production of Zorro, a new work by the Chicano/Latino theater troup Culture Clash. Zorro will explore the romantic myths that surround the creation of the Golden State, the Wild West, Hollywood, and the clashing of Mexican, Indian, Anglo American, Spanish, and Mexican American cultures.

Bilingual Foundation of the Arts (BFA)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a production of the Spanish classic La Alcalde de Zalamea by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The production will be performed in both English and Spanish and will be targeted to Hispanic and Latino residents and underserved students in the greater Los Angeles area.

Boise Contemporary Theater, Inc.
Boise, ID
$8,000
To support the production of A Number by Caryl Churchill. The play, explores contemporary life and scientific advancement, and will receive its Northwest premiere in Boise's renovated Fulton Street Theater.

California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
To support the development and production of a play in partnership with American Conservatory Theater. Sweet Thunder by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, re-imagines William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the production of The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, based on the play by Henry Fielding. The theater seeks to preserve and foster international traditions of puppetry by presenting theater inspired by world culture, classics, and nearly forgotten treasures.

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (CHAT)
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the production of Hmong! The CIA Secret Army, a play based on historical accounts of Hmong contributions to the United States during the Vietnam War.

Center Stage Associates, Inc. Endowment Fund (CENTERSTAGE)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support the American premiere of a new work, The Murder of Isaac, by Israeli playwright Motti Lerner. The play explores the events, atmosphere, and aftermath of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (Center Theatre Group)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the final development and world premiere production of Water and Power by Chicano/Latino theater troupe Culture Clash. Drawn from research into Los Angeles' history and interviews with local residents, the new play will explore police-gang relations, racism, abuse of power, and the acquisition of power by Latinos in Southern California.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support the Readings and Workshops Program. The project will include table readings, public staged readings, and workshops involving local artists and audiences in the creative process to develop new work.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Children's Theatre Company)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support world premiere productionsof a new work with accompanying educational and community activities. Naomi Iizuka's play Anon(ymous) recasts and adapts The Odyssey by Homer; the Uganda Project by Lynn Nottage will be based on the true story of a theater troupe of AIDS orphans.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$25,000
To support the production and tour of Tomas and the Library Lady, adapted by Jose Cruz Gonzalez from Pat Mora's children's book. The play, which tells the story of a son of migrant workers, will tour schools throughout Arizona. The company will partner with the county library system to provide educational resources to students, parents, and teachers.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support the development and production of Stone My Heart by Joseph McDonough, a play about racial politics set in a Chicago city morgue. The playwright will be in residence during the development process that will include professional readings and workshops.

Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the creation and performance of an original production by the Center's professional performing troupe, the New Pickle Circus. The production will continue the company's work toward the development of a new American circus aesthetic.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the world premiere of Custody of the Eyes, a new play about a priest's crisis of faith by Anthony Giardina. The production will serve as the anchor event for Fusion Fest, a new festival of multidisciplinary work.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$12,000
To support a production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, directed by Raymond Bobgan. The production will be a part of the American Classics Series and will feature the work of emerging designers chosen through the Up Next program.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
To support the Summerworks 06 Festival. The month-long festival will feature staged readings and workshop productions of new plays, as well as post-performance discussions with artists and audiences.

Coconut Grove Playhouse State Theatre of Florida
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the production of a Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez, a play which depicts historic events around the Cuban exile of the 1960s. Accompanying outreach and educational activities will be offered to members of the local Cuban community.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$27,000
To support the production of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The play dramatizes in comic form the temptations of the news media and raises issues of capital punishment, gender, and race.

Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF)
Shepherdstown, WV
$17,000
To support the creation, development, and production of Jazzland, by Keith Glover. The play tells the story of a gifted musician involved in an accident who strives to regain his skills and memory. The development phase will include staged readings, workshops, and panel discussions with local scholars, journalists, and artists.

Cuarzo Blanco, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$12,000
To support a production of Otro Fausto Más, a new Spanish-language version of Goethe's Faust. The production will be targeted to high school and university students, as well as residents of the Government Special Communities of Puerto Rico.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the second annual Young Adult Initiative, a series of programming for teen audiences. Activities will include the creation and production of The Secret Life of Girls by Linda Daugherty and Interplay II by Ted Perry and Hans Breder.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$25,000
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a play. Douglas Langworthy will be commissioned to adapt Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$25,000
To support the development, workshops, community-based performances, and tour of a new work. The Peer Project will be an international, collaborative adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt with Mexican mask-maker and choreographer Alicia Alvarez-Martinez.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$8,000
To support the development, production, and tour of Under the Sign of the Crocodile, based on the life and works of Polish Jewish artist Bruno Schultz, focusing on his novels, artwork, and letters.

Empty Space Association (Empty Space Theatre)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the commission, development, and world premiere production of a new play written and performed by Lauren Weedman. Tentatively titled The Prison Project, the piece will focus on the lives of women in and around a maximum-security state prison. Audience outreach will focus on women's support groups, shelters, and detention centers.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work, The Philippines Project, by Artistic Director Ping Chong and novelist/playwright Jessica Hagedorn. The work will explore European, American, and Asian colonialism in the Philippines from the 16th century to the present.

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc. (First Stage Children's Theater)
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
To support the production of Smoldering Fires, a new play by Kermit Frazier. The work weaves together the past and present while exploring the philosophy and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Florida Stage, Inc.
Manalapan, FL
$18,000
To support the production of a new play, Cradle of Man by Melanie Marnich. In the play, two American couples, a set of missionaries and a professor and her husband, meet in Tanzania, the birthplace of mankind.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the production of MAJOR BANG or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb by Kirk Lynn

George Street Playhouse, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$25,000
To support a production of The Afghan Women, a new play by Emmy Award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone. Patterned after Euripides' The Trojan Women, the play will use a Greek chorus, Afghan music, and poetry to convey the story of an Afghan American woman returning to her native country as a modern American doctor.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (Acting Company)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production and tour of a play adapted from Alexander Dumas's classic novel The Three Musketeers. The play will tour approximately 55 cities, and include master classes for secondary school students and in-school interactive workshops.

Guthrie Theater Foundation (Guthrie Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Educational programs will include pre-and post-show discussions with artistic staff; comprehensive study guides for educators and students, and intergenerational audience opportunities.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc. (Hartford Stage)
Hartford, CT
$30,000
To support the production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, which portrays the life of an African American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Puppeteer and writer Andre Kim will direct Gotama: The Journey of the Man Who Would Become the Buddha; Masanari Kawahara will design puppets and masks and perform in the production.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd (HERE Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), a professional development program for mid-career performing and visual artists and collaborative artist teams. HARP will serve artists through workshops, panel discussions, productions, and career development services.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support the production and tour of an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello by Y York. Originally commissioned in 2001, the play will be remounted for a statewide tour of intermediate and high schools on the Hawaiian Islands.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the New Theatres/New Works artistic development programs. Play development activities will include commissions, residencies for local playwrights, dramaturgical and developmental support for local and national playwrights, and the Breaking Ground new play festival.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (Cultural Odyssey)
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support the development, staged readings, workshop production, and world premiere of a new work. Co-artistic directors Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor will collaborate with writers Pearl Cleage and Zaron Burnett to create The Love Project.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
To support a consortium project for the production and tour of Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage. Both theaters will conduct outreach programs that touch on the issues raised in the play, including racial and social politics.

Intersection (Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support the development and production of A Waiter by Charles Randolph Wright. The play confronts the random murder of the playwright's friend Richard Adan by convicted murderer and celebrated writer Jack Henry Abbot.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of the Electric Performance Lab, a series of new performance works-in-progress. The company-created works will range from multidisciplinary solo performances to small, dramatic group pieces.

LAByrinth, Inc. (LAByrinth Theater Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the company's annual New Play Development Programs. Activities will include the Summer Intensive, the Barn Series Festival, and a development production.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development of new plays and emerging authors. Playwrights' Week is an annual festival of rehearsed public readings of new works and panel discussions with audiences.

Lexington Children's Theatre, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$10,000
To support the presentation and tour of plays. Señora Tortuga by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and A Thousand Cranes by Kathryn Schultz-Miller will tour throughout Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support the development and production of Finn McCool, a new multi-media theater piece conceived by co-Artistic Director Sharon Fogarty. Based on the legend of ancient Celtic hero Fionn McCumhail, the work will feature live performers, digital characters, and animated settings.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support the world premiere of Rust, a new play by Kirsten Greenidge exploring the relationship between African American identity and the stereotypes reflected in pop culture, sports, and commercial advertising.

McCarter Theatre Company (McCarter Theatre Center)
Princeton, NJ
$30,000
To support the production of a world premiere play, Ridiculous Fraud, by Beth Henley. The play portrays the antics of New Orleans brothers following their father's imprisonment for fraud. Educational activities will include study guides, residencies, and master classes.

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc.
Salem, NY
$15,000
To support the creation, production, and tour of a new play to be based on select English chap books from the 17th and 18th centuries, simple books developed using woodblock printing on one single sheet of paper.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$28,000
To support the production of Brian Friel's adaptation of A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev. The play, considered Turgenev's dramatic masterpiece, concerns complications that ensue when a married woman and her ward both fall in love with a tutor.

Miracle Theatre Company (Miracle Theatre Group)
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the development and production of ROAD TO XIBALBA by Joann Farias. The play, inspired by the Mayan sacred book Popul Vuh, concerns a group of Hispanic students visiting Mayan ruins who are transported back to the ancient world.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$26,000
To support the production of Point of Revue, a new work comprising short plays by African and African American playwrights. More than 15 writers have been commissioned to co-create a snapshot of contemporary black America.

Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support a world premiere production. Written and directed by founding director Greg Allen, the production will explore humanity's historical relationship and fascination with explosives and aerial warfare.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation of a series of productions for family audiences. The productions will be targeted to a diverse, intergenerational audience from New York City and the tri-state area, including nearly 10,000 students and teachers.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Readings and Workshops program. Through a variety of development activities, the program provides opportunities for playwrights to collaborate with actors and directors on new plays and musicals during extended residencies.

New Federal Theatre, Inc. (NFT)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a retrospective series commemorating the playwright Ntozake Shange's theatrical legacy and voice. The retrospective will include staged readings of Spell #7, A Photograph: Lovers in Motion, Boogie Woogie Landscapes, and the showcase production of Laila's Dream.

New Harmony Project, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$8,000
To support the development of new plays during an annual conference. The project will feature staged readings of works created in a residency program.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc. (New Paradise Laboratories)
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
To support the development and production of a play. The company will present a reworking of Rrose Sélavy Takes a Lover by Artistic Director Whit MacLaughlin. The reworking will examine Philadelphia and its role in the founding of America.

New York Shakespeare Festival (Public Theater)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of Satellites, a new play by Diana Son directed by Michael Greif. Set in a brownstone row house in Brooklyn, Satellites examines issues of race, gender, class and gentrification.

Northlight Theatre, Inc.
Skokie, IL
$18,000
To support the continued development and second production of Grace by Craig Wright. The play grapples with religious fundamentalism, human loneliness, loss, and hope.

Northwestern University Settlement Association
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support a production of Still Life With Iris by Steven Dietz. The play will be produced as part of the Vittum Theater's Season for Young Audiences, a series of productions that provides teachers and students with performances that engage students on both personal and academic levels.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the adaptation and revival of a contemporary play. Richard Foreman will re-write and re-stage his 1986 Obie Award-winning play The Cure. To mark the 20th anniversary of the piece, Foreman will adapt the play within the expanded parameters of his evolving contemproary experimental theater.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
Ashland, OR
$40,000
To support the production of a play. Up (The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair) by Bridget Carpenter. Education and outreach programming will include pre- and post-show discussions with the playwright, dramaturg, and production staff.

Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California, Inc. (Pasadena Playhouse) (Consortium)
Pasadena, CA
$32,000
To support a consortium project for the development and production of Alison Carey's adaptation of William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Produced in collaboration with Cornerstone Theater Company, the work will be set in Southern California.

Passage Theatre Company, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
$6,000
To support the world premiere production of Second Line, a new play by Seret Scott. The playwright will be in residence during the production process to continue refining the script, which portrays a love story that looks back through the lens of history at the Civil Rights movement.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support the production of Stephen Jeffrey's play, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, which tells the story of two blues musicians at crossroads in their lives. Local colleges and universities will partner on related symposia on the state of African American culture.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$38,000
To support the commissioning and initial development of new plays to be adapted from award-winning young adult books. One adaptation will be fully produced as part of the 2006 Family Series.

Perishable Theatre
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the development of new plays by women. The International Women's Playwriting Festival will feature artistic collaborations, script development, and premieres of one-act plays by emerging women playwrights.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc. (Perseverance Theatre)
Juneau, AK
$25,000
To support the presentation of Spring 2006, an annual festival of theater works. The festival will feature the world premiere of a new two-act version of The Laramie Project by Leigh Fondakowski, a play that chronicles life in a small Wyoming town where gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the production of a new play and the New Plays Project. The company will present Some Men by Terrance McNally and festivals of staged readings.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the creation, development, and production of Love Unpunished, a new theater work inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The work will be presented under the auspices of a new residency program at Drexel University's Department of Performing Arts.

Pittsburgh International Children's Theater
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the International Children's Festival. The festival will present the works of theater companies from around the world, including Het Laagland's Theatre of the Netherlands and the Manding Jata Theater of Mali.

Piven Theatre Workshop
Evanston, IL
$8,000
To support the world premiere production of Lady Chaplin and Her Tramp, a new play by Michael Stock. The play conveys the artist's perspective during the House Un-American Activities Committee's assault on theater and film artists in the 1950s.

PlayGround
San Francisco, CA
$6,000
To support the 10th annual Best of PlayGround Festival, a showcase of fully produced original short works. By focusing on the 10-minute play form, the programs will allow for experimentation and risk-taking as well as the honing of style and technique.

Playtime Productions, Inc. (Classika-Synetic Theatre)
Arlington, VA
$6,000
To support the creation and presentation of a multidisciplinary production of Dante's Divine Comedy, fusing Dante's classic text with drama, dance, pantomime, and music.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development and production of new plays. The program will support both emerging and established writers in the development and presentation of new works.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
To support the 24th annual PlayLabs Festival. The program supports the development and presentation of new American plays by bringing together theater professionals and playwrights for workshops and play readings.

Playwrights' Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support New Plays on Campus Initiative, a consortium project. With the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the project will provide professional playwrights with residencies, workshops, classes, readings, and productions at colleges and universities.

Playwrights' Preview Productions (URBAN STAGES)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the world premiere of Bulrusher, by Eisa Davis. The play tells the story of an orphaned African American child with magical abilities, raised by residents of an all-white town with its own peculiar dialect and history.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the 8th annual Just Add Water/West (JAW/West) Playwrights Festival. As the cornerstone of the theater's new play development program, the festival develops new works from competitively selected, emerging American playwrights.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support the integration of composers, musicians, and choreographers in the collaborative process. Composer Julian Fleisher will create original music for Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard; Emmy Award-winning Broadway choreographer Marge Champion will consult on choreography for Syncopation by Allan Knee.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. (Pregones Theater)
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support a production of Medea's Last Rosary, a contemporary adaptation of a Greek myth by José Manuel Torres. Originally produced in 1991, the remounted production will launch the opening of Pregones' new theater in the South Bronx cultural corridor.

Present Theatre Company, Inc. (The Present Company)
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will feature the works of more than 200 theater companies and performing artists with workshops, lectures, panels, free tickets, apprenticeships, and educational activities.

Profile Theatre Project
Portland, OR
$8,000
To support the production of Redwood Curtain and staged readings of Sympathetic Magic, two plays by Lanford Wilson. Lanford Wilson will lead a playwriting workshop for local artists, and the company also will offer study guides, student matinees, and lectures.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc. (PRTT)
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the production of plays. The company will present The Ortiz Sisters of Mott Haven by Carlos J. Serrano and director/writer Dean Zayas' adaptation of Don Gil of Greenstockings by Tirso de Molina.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the production of a new, large-scale, outdoor work specific to Olive Park in Chicago. The work will be informed by the cultural history of the park, named for a Vietnam hero and located in the Streeterville neighborhood named for a Civil War-era outlaw.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Cruz (on behalf of Shakespeare Santa Cruz)
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support the production of a series of classic plays to be performed in repertory. Outdoor productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and As You Like It will be performed alongside a non-Shakespearean classic work linked to the theme of rulers in exile.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Performing Arts Center Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$10,000
To support the Theatre Masterpieces series. The series will include the presentation of innovative theater ensembles performing cutting edge new works, such as Canada's Les Deux Mondes' 2191 Nights, and reinterpretations of classics such as DollHouse, Mabou Mines' reinvention of Ibsen's classic drama.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (RWWAC)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support the Graduate Playwriting Competition and the world premiere of a play. Competition finalists attend a playwright's forum and reading of their work; the winning play, ..." said Said by Kenneth Lin, will be produced at the Hertz Stage with accompanying audience enrichment activities.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$25,000
To support the production of Midwives by Dana Yeaton, a play which explores issues of motherhood, birth, medical ethics, and the legal system.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective (Rude Mechanicals/Rude Mechs)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the development and production of a play. Ensemble members in collaboration with playwright Kirk Lynn and director Shawn Sides will develop and produce an original adaptation of Giovanni Boccacio's The Decameron.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$25,000
To support the final development and world premiere of Restless Spirits, a new multilingual drama with puppets and music by San Diego playwright Allan Havis.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (SITI Company)
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the world premiere production of Hotel Cassiopeia, a new play written for the company by Charles L. Mee. The play will examine the idiosyncratic life and work of visual artist Joseph Cornell, translating his visual style into the language of the stage.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association (Seattle Children's Theatre (SCT))
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the world premiere production of The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet, adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. The production will target teen audiences and each performance will be followed by an interactive discussion with the actors.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support the world premiere production of Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman, a sequel to Dorfamn's award-winning play Death and the Maiden. Students will receive discounted tickets, matinee performances, and in-school residencies.

Seattle Shakespeare Festival (Seattle Shakespeare Company)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the production of a classic play with accompanying educational activities. Award winning playwright and media artist Gregg Loughridge will set Richard III by William Shakespeare in a modern-day corporate headquarters.

Seven Loaves, Inc. (GOH Productions) (on behalf of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the creation and production of Once There Was a Village, an interdisciplinary performance piece with libretto by Artistic Director Vií Horejs. Performances will take place at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club as well as in various outdoor spaces throughout New York City.

Seven Stages, Inc. (7 Stages)
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the production of Come Into My Kitchen, a play by Robert Earl Price that asks "what happens when you sell your soul for fame?" The production includes matinee performances for 2,000 secondary school students.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$55,000
To support the production of Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare and its tour to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon next summer. The production will offer post-performance discussions and seminars that will explore the text of the play.

Shotgun Players, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
In collaboration with writer/director Aaron Davidman, the company will develop and produce a new community-based theater work based on the history of Berkeley, California's Lorin District, a neighborhood that has undergone significant transformations. Workshops will engage the community in a dialogue examining the issues surrounding the production.

Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a production of Landscape of the Body by John Guare. The production will inaugurate the Signature Series, an expansion of the company's programming that will present revivals of celebrated works by playwrights-in-residence from previous seasons.

Soho Think Tank
New York, NY
$6,000
To support the 14th annual Ice Factory Festival, an OBIE Award-winning showcase of new works in development by emerging theater artists. The festival is designed to help competitively selected young companies overcome obstacles to developing, producing, and sustaining their work in New York.

Sojourn Theatre
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the development and world premiere of a new play. Artistic Director Michael Rohd will write and direct Campaign, a documentary theater work about war.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$40,000
To support the world premiere of THE STUDIO by Christopher D'Amboise.

Southern Utah University (on behalf of Utah Shakespeare Festival)
Cedar City, UT
$20,000
To support the production of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. Post-performance discussions will focus on the role of women in politics throughout history.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the production of Loves-Lies-Bleeding by Don DeLillo, a play abut the last years of a free-spirited artist, now an invalid after a second stroke. Multigenerational outreach and post-show talkbacks with the director and actors are also featured.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the Neil LaBute Festival. The project will feature productions of Fat Pig and the world premiere of Autobahn, as well as a Readers Theatre Series of LaBute's short stories and prose.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc. (Sundance Theatre)
Salt Lake City, UT
$35,000
To support the Sundance Theater Laboratory, a play development program for theater artists. The program will provide writers with the support of resource artists and mentors to develop new scripts, stage adaptations of previously written narratives, or develop new interpretations of classic texts.

Sweet Jane Productions, Inc. (International WOW Company) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project to produce the world premiere of Will We Not Return, conceived and directed by Josh Fox. The play, created collaboratively by an international ensemble, will examine the collision between Thai culture and the American film industry.

Swine Palace Productions, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
To support the creation and production of "In QUARTER Time", a new work featuring scenes from Tennessee Williams' best known plays.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the premiere of The Necklace written by Lisa D'Amour, Ellen Maddow, Lizzie Olesker, and writer/director Paul Zimet with music by Peter Gordon. The play, set in a grand, decaying house, portrays the lives of people whose identities unfold in surprising ways. The production will be presented in eight installments in the tradition of Dickens' serial novels.

Teatro de la Luna (The Moon Theater)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the Ninth International Festival of Hispanic Theater. The festival will offer Spanish-language theater from Spain, the Caribbean, and all the Americas.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the final research, development, and rehearsal period for 33 Variations, a new work created and directed by Moisés Kaufman. Using Beethoven's creation of the Diabelli Variations as a focal point, the work will explore the relationship between obsession and genius.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a production of Shakespeare's dark comedy All's Well That Ends Well. Free post-performance discussions will be hosted in conjunction with the production.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc. (Theater Grottesco)
Santa Fe, NM
$12,000
To support the production of a collaborative work by women writers and performance artists. Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Wiseman will direct Swimming in the Gases of Jupiter and Motherland, one-act plays by Ana Bogaard and Barbara Zuckerman.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
To support the production of Brother Wolf by director and writer Preston Lane will include original music composed by singer/songwriter Laurelyn Dossett. The play explores the plot of the classic text Beowulf, setting the story in a southern Appalachian community.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support the production of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Daytime performances, workshops, and curriculum-based classes will be offered to high school and college students to increase their understanding of Shakespearean text and drama.

Tulane University (Adminstrators of the Tulane Educational Fund) (on behalf of Tulane University/The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane)
New Orleans, LA
$8,000
To support the production of William Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts I and II. Educational programming will include artist/teacher workshops and matinee performances for local high schools.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the world premiere production of Next of Kin. This new play by Kansas City playwright Ron Simonian explores the challenges and emotions of caring for an aging parent.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Repertory Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support the reworking and development of a new play by Carol Hemingway. It Just Catches will be a dramatized collage of Ernest Hemingway's short stories.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the world premiere production of A Fair to Middling Woman by Kristine Thatcher. The play will explore the life of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, wife of playwright Samuel Beckett.

VSA arts of New Mexico, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$15,000
To support the development and production of a community-based theater work. Undesirable Elements/Secret History is an ongoing series of oral history theater works by Ping Chong & Company that explore the effects of history, culture, and ethnicity on the lives of community members.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the revival of On The Verge by playwright Eric Overmeyer. In the play, three female Victorian explorers set out on an adventure that propels them into the Eisenhower era.

WaterTower Theatre, Inc.
Addison, TX
$8,000
To support the Out of the Loop Festival. The festival will present full productions and staged readings of new, ensemble-created theater works by emerging theater artists.

William Inge Festival Foundation (William Inge Center for the Arts)
Independence, KS
$13,000
To support Guest Artist Residencies. The project will bring professional directors and actors to collaborate with playwrights-in-residence in readings, workshops, and the development of new plays.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the Caryl Churchill Festival. The project will include symposia, workshops, the production of Churchill's plays A Number and Cloud 9 and staged readings of other plays by the writer.

Women's Project & Productions (Women's Project)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Developmental Theater Programs, designed to help launch the professional careers of emerging women theater artists. Individual components will include the Directors Forum, the Playwrights Lab, the Pink Room Reading Series, and the Women's Work Festival of Plays.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$27,000
To support the world premiere production of The Velvet Sky by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Associate Artistic Director Rebecca Taichman will direct.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support the world premiere production of dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory by Marcus Gardley. The play tells the story of a young African American man struggling to define his relationship to his family, his masculinity, and his identity as a gay man.

Young Playwrights Inc. (Young Playwrights Festival)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival 2006. The festival will feature workshops, staged readings, and full productions of plays by young playwrights.

Z Space Studio (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support a consortium project for the first phase of the Western Presenters' Commissioning Initiative. The theater will partner with performing arts presenters to commission the development of theatrical works to tour among the partners.

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