2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 10, 2008 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
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Theater | Visual Arts

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

Theater

13 Playwrights, Inc. (aka 13P)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a production of Monstrosity, a new play by Lucy Thurber. The production will be directed by Thurber's longtime collaborator Peter DuBois, an associate producer at New York's Public Theater.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (aka ACT)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a production of the Pacific Highway South/Highway 99 Project. Playwright Andrea Allen and actor/playwright Todd Jefferson Moore will collaborate on the development of the piece.

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the New Works Festival 2009. The project will feature a workshop production of Casa Cushman, a new play by Leigh Fondakowski.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000
To support the 33rd Humana Festival of New American Plays, an annual showcase of theatrical work featuring American playwrights. Artistic Director Marc Masterson will program and oversee the signature event.

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a production of Moby Dick - Rehearsed by Orson Welles, based on Herman Melville's classic American novel. Artistic Director Gregory Boyd will direct.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation (aka American Conservatory Theater)
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support a world premiere production of War Music, a large-scale original play created by Lillian Groag. The work will be based on contemporary British poet Christopher Logue's English-language adaptation of Homer's The Iliad.

American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$30,000
To support a production of Chekhov's The Seagull. The text will be reinterpreted and staged by renowned Hungarian theater and film director János Szász and designed by his American collaborator Riccardo Hernandez.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a world premiere production of My Name Is Asher Lev, adapted and directed by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok. Using a cast of three, the adaptation will bring the novel's themes of art, duty, faith, and family to theatrical life.

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$35,000
To support a production of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Lou Bellamy, founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will guest direct the Tony Award-winning drama.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company (aka The Rep)
Little Rock, AR
$20,000
To support a free, statewide residency tour of a new play to underserved Arkansas communities, with accompanying outreach activities. Producing Artistic Director Robert Hupp will oversee the production of One Ninth by Arkansas playwright Spirit Trickey.

Arm-of-the-Sea Productions (aka Arm-of-the-Sea Theater)
Malden on Hudson, NY
$10,000
To support a tour of Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson and the River That Discovered Him. The play will be based on the events surrounding Henry Hudson's 1609 river voyage, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support a world premiere of a new work by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. In the Next Room will be directed by Associate Artistic Director Les Waters.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a partnership with the Boston Children's Museum to present a circus production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The project will seek a new level of engagement with broad and diverse audiences through the performing arts and programs.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$15,000
To support Theater in the Classroom, an arts education program that will tour adaptations of world folk literature and American history to elementary and middle schools. The 2009 tour will include an original show about American ingenuity in the sciences titled Eureka!: Inventors and Their Inventions.

Boise Contemporary Theater, Inc.
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support a production of I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda by Sonja Linden, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Inspired by experiences of Rwandan refugees in the United Kingdom, the play will portray the meeting of two people from different worlds at a Refugee Center in London.

Bristol Riverside Theater Company
Bristol, PA
$25,000
To support the final phase of development and a production of What You Will, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic Director Keith Edward Baker will collaborate with theater/dance artist Donald Byrd and composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (aka Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a production of a puppet play based on Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 classic Don Quixote de La Mancha. Northwest Puppet Center artistic directors and founders Christine and Stephen Carter will lead the project and perform with Executive Director Dimitri Carter.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support a bilingual puppetry adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 classic, Don Quixote, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Associate Producer Bobby Cox will direct and adapt the work in collaboration with Manuel Moran, Ph.D., founder and artistic director of New York's Teatro Society of the Educational Arts.

Center Stage Associates, Inc. (aka CENTERSTAGE)
Baltimore, MD
$35,000
To support a production of the Jacobean play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford. Artistic Director Irene Lewis will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Playwrights' Development Readings and Workshops program. The project will nurture the creative growth of playwrights and support new plays that will contribute to the national repertory.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support a world premiere production of Ghostwritten, a new play by Naomi Iizuka. The Goodman Theatre production will be directed by Lisa Portes.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the development and production of new works for young audiences. The theater will produce Fatebook: A Cyberspace Ghost Story, a new play for teen audiences by Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories, and will commission and develop a new play by Naomi Iizuka based on the Hmong version of Cinderella.

Circle X Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the development and production of The Chinese Massacre (Annotated), a new play by Tom Jacobson. The play will tell the story of an 1871 Los Angeles riot in which 19 Chinese men and boys were murdered.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support a world premiere production of Speak American, a new play by Eric Simonson. The play will follow a group of Eastern European immigrant steel workers in Pittsburgh who are learning English together in 1904.

Civilians, Inc. (aka The Civilians)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and production of the Atlantic Yards Theater Project. The company will create a piece exploring issues surrounding new development in Brooklyn.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support a world premiere production of Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination, adapted by award-winning playwright Lee Blessing. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Michael Bloom.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the final development phase and a full production of Cut to Pieces, a new work created by Raymond Bobgan and Chris Seibert. The project will integrate live performance with video projections, animation, film, and television montage.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 14th annual Summerworks '09 festival of new plays. The project will consist of full productions of new plays, and an evening of thematically-linked short pieces by different writers who will use New York's subway lines as their central focus.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (aka Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$30,000
To support an adaptation for the stage of Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning 1952 novella, The Old Man and the Sea. Long Wharf Theatre's Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting will adapt the text and serve as director of the full production.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support The Environmental Justice Project, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Playwright Julie Herbert, director Juliette Carrillo, and the theater ensemble will partner with community members to explore the urban environmental issues surrounding the Los Angeles River.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a production of Henrik Ibsen's 1884 play, The Wild Duck. Artistic Director Charles Newell will direct the production with a new translation by playwright Richard Nelson.

CSC Repertory, Ltd. (aka Classic Stage Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Classic Stage Company's world premiere of The Oresteia, with new translations by award-winning poet Anne Carson, and accompanying educational activities. Performed in repertory, the two-evening opus will include new translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Electra, and Euripides' Orestes.

Dell'Arte, Inc. (aka Dell'Arte International)
Blue Lake, CA
$20,000
To support The Bernarda Project. The artistic team of Founding Artistic Director and actress Joan Schirle, choreographer Donlin Foreman, director and master teacher Ronlin Foreman, Argentinean composer Daniel Binnelli, and ensemble members will create a new theater work inspired by Federico García Lorca's Spanish classic The House of Bernarda Alba.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Theater J will produce the English-language premiere of Hillel Mittelpunkt's domestic drama The Accident, directed by Sinai Peter, and the American premiere of Cameri Theatre's ensemble work Plonter, written and directed by Yael Ronen.

Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development and work-in-progress performances of a new theater work. Artistic Director John Collins will direct the ensemble-created work, with choreography by Kathy Profeta and co-produced by The Public Theater in New York City.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc. (aka The O'Neill)
Waterford, CT
$20,000
To support the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. The project will include the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development and production of new theater works in Ping Chong & Company's Undesirable Elements Series. The project is an ongoing series of documentary theater works that explore the evolving concepts of race, identity, and culture in America.

foolsFURY Theater Company
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of an ensemble theater piece in collaboration with playwright Sheila Callaghan and the Playwrights Foundation. Set within the opulent confines of a cruise ship, Floating Uneasy will explore the fine line between decadence and luxury in contemporary American culture.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
To support the [Inside] the Ford Winter Partnership Series. The project will offer services to small Los Angeles County theaters to strengthen their producing capabilities and increase their visibility and audiences.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and world premiere of The Telephone Book, a new performance work by dramaturg Sunder Gangliani and poet/writer Ariana Rienes. The piece will be based on the research paper on media studies and literary theory "Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, and Electric Speech" by Avital Ronell (1989).

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion. The Silk Road Theatre Project will ask multiple playwrights of presupposed Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds to write new plays in response to a DNA test that reveals their genetic ancestry.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (aka The Acting Company)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a production and national tour of James Fenimore Cooper's 1821 espionage novel The Spy, adapted for the stage by Jeffrey Hatcher. The Acting Company production will be directed by John Miller.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc. (aka In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support a production of a puppet and mask piece titled Ev'ry Voice. Laurie Witzkowski will direct the work that will explore the American civil rights movement through the songs that defined the era.

Home for Contemporary Theatre & Arts (aka HERE Arts Center)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the HERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program directed by Artistic Director Kristin Marting. The project will support mid-career performing and visual artists.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000
To support Today's Artists, Tomorrow's Works, a new play development program. Artistic Director Peter Dubois will lead the project, with accompanying educational activities.

id Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, with accompanying outreach activities. Artistic Director Jeni Mahoney will lead professional theater artists as they mentor their local counterparts, students, and community members in the artistic process.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (aka Cultural Odyssey)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the development of a theatrical piece exploring the reasons behind the AIDS epidemic in the lives of African American women. Dancing with the Clown of Love will be created collaboratively with the Women's HIV Program at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc. (aka Illusion Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the commissioning, development, and production of Beauty Is a Rare Thing, a new play by playwright/director Marion McClinton. The piece will be developed through the theater's Summer 2009 Fresh Ink new play series and will premiere on its mainstage.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Marion, 1930 by Charles Smith. The project is based on a key moment in Indiana race history and will use historical research, resident interviews, and group discussions to inform the creation of the play.

InterAct, Inc. (aka InterAct Theatre Company)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support a world premiere production of The Rant, a new play by Andrew Case. The project will be directed by Producing Managing Director Seth Rozin.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the development and premiere of The Curse: Oscar, Lola y Yunior, based on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a new novel by Dominican American writer Junot Diaz. The play will be developed by Intersection for the Arts' resident ensemble member Campo Santo.

Junebug Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the development and production of the Race Peace project. In partnership with Appalshop/Roadside Theater, Junebug will lead the collaborative creation of a cross-generational performance work about racism.

LAByrinth, Inc. (aka LAByrinth Theater Company)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the annual New Play Development Program. Activities will include the Summer Intensive retreat, the Barn Series Festival of staged readings, and Developmental Productions of new works-in-progress.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Open Access Program. The project will provide competitively selected playwrights access to development support and advancement efforts for their new works.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc. (aka Ma-Yi Theater Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a world premiere of I_NY by artistic director and playwright Ralph Pena.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (aka Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a tour of Lucia's Chapters by Sharon Fogarty and Summa Dramatica by Lee Breuer. The creative team of writer/director Sharon Fogarty, production designer Julie Archer, Artistic Director and performer Ruth Maleczech, and writer/director Lee Breuer will tour to venues in smaller communities and colleges.

Madcap Productions, Inc. (aka Madcap Puppet Theatre)
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support a production of the Hats Off Series, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Original shows for young audiences featuring giant puppets will be performed at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc. (aka MCC Theater)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a world premiere of The Break of Noon by Neil LaBute, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic Directors Robert LuPone and Bernard Telsey, Associate Director William Cantler, and Literary Manager Stephen Willems will support LaBute's artistic voice and continued growth as a writer.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a production of Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at New York City Center Stage 1, in co-production with and commissioned by Chicago's Goodman Theatre. Director Kate Whoriskey, who has collaborated in the past with Nottage, will direct the production with accompanying educational activities.

McCarter Theater
Princeton, NJ
$30,000
To support a production of the Brother/Sister Plays, a cycle of plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, with accompanying educational and outreach activites. The Tony Award-winning theater will present The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and the world premiere of Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet.

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Mettawee River Company)
Salem, NY
$15,000
To support a tour of an original play called Beyond the High Valley ? A Quechua Story,

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support a production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. The project will feature the theater's resident acting company and will be directed by Ben Barnes, former artistic director of Ireland's Abbey Theatre.

Miracle Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support a production of The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, written by Chicano theater pioneer Luis Valdez. First performed in 1964, the play represents a watershed moment in the development of Chicano identity in the United States.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support a production and tour of newly commissioned works that seek to engage Muslim populations. The project will include both a mainstage production and touring productions that will be performed in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation of theater works for young audiences by international and national companies. The productions will be accompanied by arts education programs, outreach activities, and paid job training programs for youth.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development of new work for the theater in the Playwrights Lab. The initiative will support resident playwrights through writer-driven readings and a workshop series.

New Federal Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of Cool Blues, a new play by Bill Harris based on events surrounding musician Charlie Parker's death. The production will be directed by Ed Smith.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a production of Fatebook: A Cyberspace Ghost Story. Co-created by Artistic Director Whit MacLaughlin, the New Paradise Laboratories ensemble, scenic designer Matt Saunders, and media designer Jorge Cousineau, the project will premiere at the 2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a production of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, written by Carson McCullers and adapted for the stage by Rebecca Gilman, in association with The Acting Company. The production will be directed by Doug Hughes.

Next Theatre Company
Evanston, IL
$15,000
To support a world premiere production of War with the Newts, adapted from the 1936 science fiction satire by Karel Capek about the rise of European fascism. The work will be adapted by Jason Loewith and dramatized with puppets by Michael Montenegro and original music by Josh Schmidt.

Northern Prairie Performing Arts (aka Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre)
Fargo, ND
$15,000
To support a tour of Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre's professional company, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Youth-oriented plays will be presented to students in schools in North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

Northlight Theatre, Inc.
Skokie, IL
$20,000
To support a world premiere of Po' Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin. Accompanying educational and outreach activities will target Chicago's Asian American population.

Northwestern University Settlement (on behalf of Adventure Stage Chicago at Vittum Theater)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Adventure Stage Chicago at the Vittum Theater production of Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back by Jason Tremblay. Producing Artistic Director Tom Arvetis will direct the play, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Off-Leash Area: Contemporary Performance Works
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a production of Ivan the Drunk and His Terrible Tale of Woe. Co-Artistic Directors Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse will collaborate with writer and dramaturg Max Sparber to create a tragicomic performance about the effects of war on individuals and society.

Old Globe Theatre (aka The Old Globe) (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$35,000
To support a production of Since Africa by Mia McCullough, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Seema Sueko of the partnering organization Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company will direct the production.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation and production of Stage Fright. Artistic Director Richard Foreman will design, write, and direct a chamber opera created in collaboration with composer John Zorn.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$40,000
To support a production of Equivocation by Bill Cain, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Bill Rauch will direct the production, with sound design by Andre J. Pluess.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$30,000
To support a production of Radio Golf by August Wilson. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Lou Bellamy.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$20,000
To support a production of The Day of the Picnic by Russell Davis, directed by Artistic Director Abigail Adams. The project will be part of the Philadelphia New Play Festival sponsored by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$20,000
To support the development and production of world premieres that will celebrate Alaska's 50th anniversary and the theater's 30th anniversary. The project will showcase emerging and established Alaskan and national artists, exploring themes of independence, responsibility, building community, and coming of age.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the New Works/New Audiences Project. The audience development program will include the world premiere production of Resurrection, a new play by Daniel Beaty.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the development and world premiere of Harry's Friendly Service, a new play by Pittsburgh playwright Rob Zellers. The production will be directed by Producing Artistic Director Ted Pappas.

Plan-B Theater Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000
To support the creation, production, and tour of Block 8, a new play by Matthew Ivan Bennett, directed by Artistic Director Jerry Rapier. The play will explore the history of the Japanese internment experience in Utah during World War II.

Play Production Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of Enjoy by Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada. The play will be translated by emerging American playwright Aya Ogawa.

PlayPenn, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the 2009 Summer Conference. The conference will provide in-depth workshops, bring leading theater artists to Philadelphia, and enhance the network of local artists.

Playtime Productions, Inc. (aka Synetic Theater)
Arlington, VA
$10,000
To support the adaptation and reinterpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Using a combination of original music, movement, and drama, Synetic Theater will reinvent the piece for a modern audience.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the American Voice artistic development program. The project will include the evaluation of script submissions, developmental play readings, staged readings of new musicals, and a full production of a new play by an American writer.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the development of new work in the Ruth Easton Lab. Producing Artistic Director Polly Carl will coordinate play development activities that will culminate in the Writer/Director Series and the annual Play Labs Festival.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the 11th annual JAW (Just Add Water): Playwrights Festival. Artistic Director Chris Coleman and Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan will lead the festival, supporting playwrights in the development of new works to enhance the repertoire of the American theater.

Portland Stage Company, Inc.
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support the development and production of Out of Sterno by Deborah Zoe Laufer, with accompanying educational activities. Executive and Artistic Director Anita Stewart and Literary Manager/Education Manager Daniel Burson will participate in the final development process of the play.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. (aka Pregones Theater)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support the development and production of a new play with music, Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat, with accompanying outreach and educational activities. Artistic Director Rosalba Rolon will serve as director and dramaturg for the script development in collaboration with ensemble artists and composer Desmar Guevara.

Present Theatre Company, Inc. (aka The Present Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will allow artists and arts organizations the opportunity to present work to a broad audience in a variety of venues.

Providence Black Repertory Company (aka Black Rep)
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the American premiere of A Time of Fire by Ugandan playwright Charles Mulekwa. Artistic Director Donald W. King will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Ripe Time, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support a production of a visually driven and movement-based adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. Artistic Director Rachel Dickstein will write, choreograph, and direct the work with a live score composed by Jewlia Eisenberg.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support a world premiere production of Smart Cookie, a new play by Julia Brownell. The Alliance Theatre production will be directed by Susan V. Booth.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$30,000
To support a production of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). The production is part of the theater's Literary Works Project, which is designed to bring fresh perspectives to classic literature.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a production of Distracted by Lisa Loomer. The production will be directed by Mark Brokaw and will star Cynthia Nixon.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$25,000
To support a production of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse.

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research (aka Sandglass Theater)
Putney, VT
$20,000
To support the 2010 International Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival. The project will include the creation and presentation of When the Sun Shines and the Soup Burns, a new work developed with the Paraprofessional Health Care Institute.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (aka SITI Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Under Construction, a new play by Charles Mee, directed by Anne Bogart. The production will premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Inc.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
$20,000
To support the commissioning, development, and production of Headwaters 2009: More Stories from a Goodly Portion of Beautiful Northeast Georgia. The company will create a community-based performance piece using stories gathered from Sautee Nacoochee and the surrounding areas.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support a world premiere production of Pharaoh Serket and the Lost Stone of Fire, a new play by John Olive. The play will bring to life the culture of ancient Egypt for students studying world history and the rise of civilization.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support The Seafarer by Conor McPherson. The production will be directed by Wilson Milam.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a world premiere production of Escapist Fare, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane. The production will be directed by award-winning stage and television director Scott Ellis.

Seven Loaves, Inc. (aka GOH Productions) (on behalf of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and production of a new work by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. The company will create The Very Sad Story of Ethel and Julius and Alleged Spyes and About Their Untymele End While Sitting in a Small Room at the Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York.

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a workshop and in-progress presentations of a new shadow theater work. Artistic Director Larry Reed, co-author/performer Karen Kandel, and choreographer/performer Yin Mei will develop the Good-For-Nothing Lover.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company)
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support a production of Ion by the Greek playwright Euripides, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Michael Kahn will direct the American premiere of David Lan's translation and adaptation.

Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a production of Zooman and the Sign by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, playwright, and Negro Ensemble Company member Charles Fuller. Stephen McKinley Henderson will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a presentation of The Women of Troy adapted from a play by Euripides, with educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Theodora Skipitares will create the work by merging the text of Euripides with the words of incarcerated women at New York's Riker's Island.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Soho Rep)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Writer/Director Lab and Soho Rep Studio. Artistic Director Sarah Benson, Executive Director Alexandra Conley, and project co-chairs Maria Goyanes and Daniel Manley will direct the new play development programs.

Soho Think Tank, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Ice Factory 2009. Artistic Director Robert Lyons will direct the Obie award-winning annual summer festival of new work.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$40,000
To support a workshop and world premiere of You, Nero, a new comedy developed by award-winning playwright Amy Freed. Sharon Ott will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka SART)
Mars Hill, NC
$10,000
To support a production of Home Again, a new play about the writer Thomas Wolfe, with outreach and educational activities. Artistic Director Bill Gregg, playwright Robert Miller, and commissioned writer Perry Deane Young will develop the fifth drama in the theater's Heritage Plays series.

Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the development and production of Shotgun, the second play in John Biguenet's trilogy about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Val Curtis-Newton will direct the play with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Southern Utah University (on behalf of Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Cedar City, UT
$15,000
To support a production of Henry V by William Shakespeare at the Utah Shaspearean Festival. The production will be directed by Associate Artistic Director J.R. Sullivan.

Springer Opera House Arts Association, Inc. (aka Springer Opera House) (Consortium)
Columbus, GA
$10,000
To support a production of Charm School by Eddie Lee and Larry Larson. Producing Artistic Director Paul Pierce and Associate Artistic Director Ron Anderson will partner with the Business Resource Center of the Pastoral Institute to provide education and outreach assistance to area businesses.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$45,000
To support a production of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Ensemble member Tina Landau will direct the production and ensemble member Frank Galati will play the role of Prospero.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a production of The Magical Thinking Series, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The theater will present plays about women who face adversity and employ hope, creativity, and individuality to survive challenges in their worlds.

Sundance Children's Theatre (aka Sundance Theatre Program)
Park City, UT
$40,000
To support the July Theatre Lab for the development of new work by emerging and mid-career theater artists. The lab will provide an environment and the resources to advance new play scripts toward full productions.

Sweet Jane Productions, Inc. (aka International WOW)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support a production of Auto Da Fe, a new work created by International WOW in collaboration with playwright Matsuda Masakata. The play is a reinterpretation of the Odysseus myth and was originally produced in Kyoto, Japan, to great popular and critical acclaim.

Synchronicity Performance Group, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support a production and tour of Women and War, an original, ensemble-created work. The tour will include full performances and lecture-demonstrations related to the production.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and production of Action, a new multidisciplinary work. The piece will be developed collaboratively by a team of theater artists including a writer, composer, set designer, costume designer, choreographer, and performers.

Theater Labrador, Inc. (aka New Georges)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a world premiere production of Angela's Mixtape, a new play by Eisa Davis. The New Georges production will be directed by Liesl Tommy.

Theater Mu Inc. (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a production of Ching Chong Chinaman, a new play by Lauren D. Yee. The production will be directed by Jennifer Weir.

Two River Theater Company
Red Bank, NJ
$10,000
To support the creation and production of ReEntry, by Associate Artistic Director KJ Sanchez and Emily Ackerman. The play will be based on interviews with military men and women returning from Iraq, their families, and friends, with dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc. (aka Underground Railway Theater)
Arlington, MA
$15,000
To support a production of The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Playwright/puppetry artist Andrew Periale and director/playwright Jon Lipsky will be commissioned to create a new translation of the play.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (aka Lincoln Center Theater)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a world premiere of The Grand Manner by A. R. Gurney, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Mark Lamos will direct the play in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.

Voice and Vision, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the ENVISION Retreat for women theater artists. Artistic Director Jean Wagner will lead the annual summer retreat with dramaturg Wendy Weckwerth.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (aka Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support a world premiere of Beyond Voltaire by Karen Zacarías. The Arena Stage production will be directed by Artistic Director Molly Smith.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support a production of Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, translated from French by Linda Gaboriau. The production will be directed by Blanka Zizka.

Women's Project & Productions (aka Women's Project)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Developmental Lab Programs for playwrights, directors, and producers. The project will provide opportunities for artists to create, refine, and develop new works through introductions to future collaborators, mentorships with experienced professionals, and productions of new works.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a world premiere production of Antebellum by Robert O'Hara. The production will be directed by Chay Yew.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support the East Coast premiere of Lydia, a new play by Octavio Solis. The Yale Repertory Theatre production will be directed by Juliette Carrillo.

Zachary Scott Theater Center (aka ZACH Theatre)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the development and world premiere of Blue Monday, a new play by Colin Denby Swanson. The production will be directed by Producing Artistic Director Dave Steakley.

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