Martyna Majok, Mona Mansour, Dena Igusti, Laura Annawyn Shamas, Maria Gobetti, Alexis Nicole Robles, and Lisa Sanaye Dring.
NATIONWIDE: The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Belief has introduced that Martyna Majok and Mona Mansour will obtain the 2023 Steinberg Playwright Awards within the quantity of $100,000 every. The “Mimi” Awards are offered yearly to early-to-mid-career playwrights who’ve distinctive and compelling voices, and whose work displays distinctive expertise and inventive excellence.
Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Price of Dwelling, which was nominated for the 2023 Tony Award for Finest Play. Her different performs embody Sanctuary Metropolis, Queens, and Ironbound.
Mona Mansour grew up in Southern California, the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant father and an American mom from Seattle. Her performs embody Me and the S.L.A, The Vagrant Trilogy (Urge for Going, The Hour of Feeling, and The Vagrant), Unseen, Starting Days of True Jubilation, The Method West, and We Swim, We Discuss, We Go to Struggle.
The members of the 2023 Steinberg Playwright Awards advisory committee included Jeremy B. Cohen, Snehal Desai, Oskar Eustis, Maria Manuela Goyanes, Sarah Lunnie, Neil Pepe, and Hana S. Sharif. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Belief was created by Harold Steinberg in 1986 in his title and the title of his late spouse, Miriam. The belief goals to assist and promote the American theatre by nurturing American playwrights, encouraging the event and manufacturing of latest American performs, and offering assist to not-for-profit theatre corporations throughout the nation.
IndieSpace has awarded their annual Pay Your Individuals Grants to 60 recipients. Grantees have been chosen by lottery from 291 eligible candidates and have been every offered with $1,000 checks throughout The Large Give, the group’s annual group constructing and funding occasion, at Chelsea Manufacturing facility on Nov. 28.
5 corporations have been awarded Deep Roots Grants, that are particularly designated for corporations which were working in indie theatre for greater than 25 years. 10 performing arts areas have been awarded Indie Theater Venue Grants, and 45 further theatre corporations and productions have been awarded $1,000 grants. Deep Roots Grants have been offered to Boomerang Theatre Firm, Broadway Inspirational Voices, Danza Espana, Worldwide Tradition Lab, and Untitled Theater Firm No. 61. Indie Theater Venue Grants have been awarded to 14Y Theater, 16 Cowries House, 3am Theater, El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, Episcopal Actors’ Guild (EAG), FRIGID New York, Greenhouse Arts Middle, IRT Theater, Latin American Intercultural Alliance, and WOW Cafe Theater. The complete checklist of grant recipients may be discovered right here.
IndieSpace was established in 2016 to disrupt the continuing displacement of small theatres and to create a brand new mannequin for equitable funding for the indie theatre group. The group seeks to supply clear, responsive, and equity-focused funding, actual property packages, skilled improvement, and advocacy to particular person artists, theatre corporations, and indie venues.
The New York Basis for the Arts has named Dena Igusti the inaugural recipient of the Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Award. Based in honor of playwright Ryan Hudak, who died in Could 2022 at age 32 after a protracted battle with leukemia, this award acknowledges a New York state-based playwright who identifies as LGBTQ+ with a $10,000 money grant.
Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim author born and raised in Queens, N.Y. They’re the writer of Lower Lady (Recreation Over Books, 2020) and I Want This to Not Swallow Me Alive (Gingerbug Press, 2021). They’re the co-playwright of the want: a guide for a last-ditch effort to avoid wasting abortion in the us via theater (2023 A is For Play Winner). They’re additionally the founding father of Dearest Mearest, a multimedia platform for arts and humanities accessibility.
The Los Angeles New Play Undertaking has introduced the successful playwrights and producers of the LANPP 2023 theatre manufacturing grants. Awards of as much as $40,000 are offered in two components: a $20,000 award to playwrights for brand new, unproduced performs, and a follow-up award to producers of as much as $20,000 for the play’s premiere manufacturing, which should happen in Los Angeles County and be offered by a small-to-mid-sized theatrical producing entity.
This yr’s LANPP grant recipients are playwrights Lisa Sanaye Dring and Laura Annawyn Shamas, and producers Alexis Nicole Robles of Rogue Artists Ensemble and Maria Gobetti of Victory Theatre Middle.
Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play, Completely happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular, will probably be produced in 2024 by Rogue Artists Ensemble with a full manufacturing that involves life as an interactive stunt present, with life-size puppets, particular results, and death-defying bodily acts. The play, which had a profitable workshop earlier this yr, is predicated on true-life tales and direct testimonies illuminating problems with racial and cultural identification in Hollywood. Dring is an Emmy-nominated author, director, and actor initially from Hilo, Hawaii, and Reno, Nevada. This season Lisa’s play SUMO was co-produced by La Jolla Playhouse and Ma-Yi Theater Firm and Hungry Ghost was produced by Skylight Theatre.
Laura Annawyn Shamas’s play 4 Girls in Pink facilities round a gaggle of Native American ladies who seek for and mourn Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Girls (#MMIW). The play, which was offered on the 2022 Competition of New Performs as a part of the Autry Museum’s Native Voices program, will probably be produced by the Victory Theatre Сenter. A monologue from 4 Girls… was printed within the Smith & Kraus The Finest Girls’s Monologues 2022. Preliminary dramaturgical assist for the play got here from the Indigenous Writers Collaborative at Oregon Shakespeare Competition. Laura Annawyn Shamas is a Los Angles playwright and a member of the Chickasaw Nation. She’s written 40 performs and is at the moment writing a novel.
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