Muriel Miguel, Philip Kan Gotanda, Kholoud Sawaf, Diana Oh “Zaza D,” Rona Siddiqui, Lisa Loomer, Dustin Ballard, and Riv Dabul.
NATIONWIDE: United States Artists (USA) has introduced its 2024 USA Fellows, together with 4 theatre and efficiency fellows. This yr’s fellowship class includes 50 recipients working within the disciplines of structure and design, craft, dance, movie, media, music, theatre and efficiency, conventional arts, visible arts, and writing. This system goals to offer unconditional assist and higher company to particular person artists. Every fellow receives an unrestricted money prize of $50,000, in addition to entry to individualized monetary planning. USA is experimenting with including entry to attorneys, profession consultants, and different skilled companies on request.
The 2024 theatre and efficiency fellows are Muriel Miguel, Philip Kan Gotanda, Kholoud Sawaf, and Diana Oh “Zaza D.” Muriel Miguel is a director, author, and actor of Kuna and Rappahannock ancestry. She is the founder and creative director of Spiderwoman Theater in Brooklyn, the place she developed storyweaving, an Indigenous efficiency observe for coaching First Nations actors and dancers. Philip Kan Gotanda is a playwright and filmmaker based mostly in Berkeley, Calif. He’s the creator of one of many largest collections of Asian American-themed performs, together with Yohen, The Wash, After the Battle, Yankee Dawg You Die, I Dream of Chang and Eng, A Fist of Roses, Offended Crimson Drum, and extra.
Kholoud Sawaf is a Syrian director and filmmaker based mostly in Fayetteville, Ark. Her works examine cultural depth, authenticity, and illustration. Her latest credit embrace We Are Right here (Crystal Bridges Museum for American Artwork), Theatre For One-Nairobi Version (Octopus Theatricals), The Suburbs (Thrown Stone Theatre), A lot Ado About Nothing (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Pageant), and 10,000 Balconies (TheatreSquared). Diana Oh “Zaza D” is a multidisciplinary inventive artist, actor, musician, and author based mostly in New York. Their work facilities pleasure, mutual care, and queer experiences. A few of their latest initiatives embrace {my lingerie play}, Infinite Love Occasion, CLAIRVOYANCE, Asian Persons are Not Magicians, OH FAMILY CONCERT, The Present Project, My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre, and extra.
The Kleban Basis has introduced the recipients of the 2024 Kleban Prizes for Musical Theatre. The prize for essentially the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Rona Siddiqui and the prize for essentially the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to Lisa Loomer. The annual awards had been established by Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Edward Kleban and supply $100,000 to every recipient, payable over two years. The muse will current the prizes on Mon., Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in a personal ceremony at New World Levels.
Rona Siddiqui is a composer, lyricist, and Grammy-nominated artist based mostly in NYC. Siddiqui is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Grant and Billie Burke Ziegfeld award and was named one in every of Broadway Girls’s Fund’s Girls to Watch. She has been in residency at Musical Theatre Manufacturing facility and Ars Nova. Her musicals embrace Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, One Good Day, Hip Hop Cinderella, and Treasure in NYC. She additionally served as music supervisor of A Unusual Loop on Broadway.
Lisa Loomer is a playwright, librettist, and screenwriter whose work has been produced at main theatres throughout the nation and is taught in each Girls’s Research and Latine Research lessons. Her performs embrace Roe, The Ready Room, Dwelling Out, Distracted, ¡Bocón!, and Café Vida. She is the bookwriter of the musical adaptation of Actual Girls Have Curves which simply concluded its world premiere run on the American Repertory Theater. Her present initiatives embrace the musical of Like Water for Chocolate and a brand new play, Aspect Results Could Embrace…
The ultimate judging panel for this yr’s awards consisted of Tony Award-winning playwright, composer, and lyricist Michael R. Jackson, Theater Latté Da affiliate creative director Elissa Adams, and actor and playwright Christine Toy Johnson. The software window for the 2025 Kleban Prize will open on March 15, 2024 and shut at 5:00 p.m. ET on Could 15.
Premiere Levels, the skilled theatre firm in residence at Kean College, has named scholar Riv Dabul (class of ’24) and alumnus Dustin Ballard (class of ‘09) the recipients of the 2024 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Awards. Named for longtime donors W. John Bauer and Nancy Boucher, the annual awards acknowledge the work of 1 Kean College scholar and one playwright from the alumni neighborhood with a one-day developmental studying of their performs. The successful scholar receives a $1,000 prize and the successful graduate receives a $2,000 prize, whereas honorable point out recipients every obtain $100. This yr’s mentions embrace Ryuuchi Kariyawasam-Chavez within the scholar class and Joelle Zazz within the alumnus class.
Dustin Ballard is an actor, director, and author who graduated from the Kean Theatre Conservatory in 2009. He has been seen on stage at Lincoln Middle, the Kennedy Middle, Two River Theatre, and Premiere Levels. He just lately directed Peter and the Starcatcher and John Proctor is the Villain for Middlesex School’s Division of Theatre. His play Daemon was a earlier winner of the Bauer Boucher Alumnus Award, and he premiered his unique work Bend within the River on the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Pageant. He’s the co-creator and co-host of the acclaimed outside podcast Gaze on the Nationwide Parks. The studying of his play Wayfarers by was held on Jan. 17 at Lantern Hill, the place each Mr. Bauer and Ms. Boucher reside. A play in two acts, in two distinct moments in time, Wayfarers explores the tenuous nature of affection in its totally different kinds.
Riv Dabul is pursuing a BFA in Theatre Efficiency (Musical Theatre). She is a brand new playwright and her successful play each little factor is her debut. Her efficiency credit embrace Animal Farm (Clover), Avenue Q (Unhealthy Concept Bear), The Tempest (Spirit), Into the Woods (Little Crimson Driving Hood), and Indecent (Virginia, ensemble, u/s Chana). Riv has additionally labored within the costume store at Kean and within the ranks of counselors at Camp Half-Blood. The studying of each little factor was held on Jan. 18 at Kean College. The play follows a homeless lady on the streets of New York as she navigates grief and survival utilizing one of many best joys in her life: human connection.
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