Multidisciplinary artists Marie Lloyd Paspe, Barkha Patel, Christopher Rivas, Marie Thomas, and Immanuel Wilkins.
Harlem Stage has commissioned 5 artists to create new work as a part of the 2024 WaterWorks Rising Artists program. Designed to assist promising multidisciplinary artists of shade as they develop new facets of their creative follow, the cohort contains Marie Lloyd Paspe, Barkha Patel, Christopher Rivas, Marie Thomas, and Immanuel Wilkins.
This system contains mentorship and important suggestions from business leaders, skilled improvement workshops led by Harlem Stage workers, and manufacturing steerage. Every rising artist will develop an authentic efficiency piece to be introduced as a part of a work-in-progress showcase on the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in December 2024.
Marie Lloyd Paspe is a Filipina American dancer, vocalist, choreographer, and author. Her venture within the stomach of the crocodile shall be a theatrical dance alter-musical exploring the reincarnation of “babaylan,” a Filipinx shaman of pre-colonial Philippines.
Barkha Patel is a kathak dancer, choreographer, educator, and the creative director of Barkha Dance Firm. She is going to develop ramti aave – her playful arrival, a piece that explores surrendering to the Hindu goddess Kali’s playfully damaging energy to entry the erotic.
Christopher Rivas is an actor, writer, podcaster, playwright, and storyteller. His venture ROUGH MAGIC shall be a three-act operatic ritual that leads the viewers by way of three distinct immersive configurations, revealing how our up to date lives bear placing parallels to the enduring curses of the Greek mythological figures Sisyphus, Tantalus, and Narcissus.
Marie Thomas is a author, unbiased producer, and director. She intends to create a reflective dialogue the place a father and daughter focus on their variations and similarities in relation to phrases like “Lady Dad,” “Narcissism,” and “Childhood Trauma.”
Immanuel Wilkins is an alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He’ll develop FLESH, a bit for saxophone, synthesizer, percussion, guitar, and voice that serves as a examine on the Black physique and the remix, repurposing the pores and skin as an emblem and power for unification.
Harlem Stage is a performing arts heart in New York Metropolis that seeks to perpetuate and rejoice the distinctive and various creative legacy of its neighborhood and the indelible impression it has made on American tradition.
American Stage has named six playwrights whose work shall be featured within the 2024 Carry Each Voice: New Play Competition, a program meant to develop new, various works from rising artists. The pageant will happen March 1-3.
Playwrights Christian Mendonça (Flowers for Males), Nimisha Ladva (Goddess on the Fortunate Girl Motel), Syd Speeding (Aberdeen and Netarine), Vickie Ramirez (Glenburn 12 WP), Lily Speeding (The Canine), and Steven J. Burge (Bats#!t) will additional develop their tasks within the week main as much as the pageant, the place their performs shall be carried out in professionally staged readings. Their works shall be thought of for manufacturing in American Stage’s upcoming seasons. The pageant may also embody alternatives from the theatre’s Write-On! program, which connects educating artists with native highschool college students in a semester-long playwriting workshop.
In Christian Mendonça’s Flowers for Males, a Latinx social employee creates a program to unpack the masculinities of 5 males in his group as they have a tendency to a group backyard.
In Nimisha Ladva’s Goddess on the Fortunate Girl Motel, a motel turns into a house and a refuge for Indian immigrant Mummy-ji and her America-born son Ravi after the lack of their patriarch.
In Syd Speeding’s Aberdeen and Netarine, Two church moms go up in opposition to the varsity board, the church, and the outstanding political figures of the town to implement adjustments that can save their metropolis’s youngsters.
Vickie Ramirez’s Glenburn 12 WP follows two strangers, one Black, one Native American, who meet in an empty Irish bar within the midst of police brutality protests.
In Lily Speeding’s The Canine, Taryn reveals greater than she meant whereas vacationing in Arizona when she recounts her expertise on a reservation.
Steven J. Burge’s Bats#!t is a 75-minute monologue that, relying on statutes of limitations and native legal guidelines relating to request for forgiveness wherever this can be produced, is both 100% fictional or fully autobiographical.
American Stage is skilled regional theatre firm positioned in St. Petersburg, Fla. The corporate strives to be an important arts chief, connecting its group to world-class productions that commemorate highly effective tales of the second and defining tales from our previous.
Web page 73 has introduced their 2024 Playwrighting Fellow in addition to members of this 12 months’s Writers Group. This 12 months’s Playwriting Fellow is jose sebastian alberdi, who will be a part of the Writers Group together with new members Calley N. Anderson, Jake Brasch, Garrett David Kim, Forest Malley, Genevieve Simon, Could Treuhaft-Ali, and Elinor T Vanderburg.
The fellowship offers a 12 months of assist to 1 early-career playwright who has not acquired knowledgeable manufacturing in New York Metropolis. The guy receives an unrestricted money award of $20,000 and a improvement price range of as much as $10,000 to develop a number of new performs of his selecting, culminating in no less than one public presentation of a brand new play.
jose sebastian alberdi is a New York-based Mexican-Basque-American playwright initially from California. His performs embody bogfriends, The Household Saves A Life, rachel, nv, ¡Mamágua!, and extra.
The Writers Group (previously referred to as Interstate 73) meets twice a month to share pages and focus on work with their friends together with the corporate’s creative director Michael Walkup and affiliate creative director Kari Olmon. Members obtain a $3,000 stipend.
Functions for the 2025 Fellowship and Writers Group are due by 11:59 p.m. on April 28.
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) and stage supervisor and producer Cody Renard Richard have introduced the 2024 recipients of the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program. This system is devoted to constructing a bridge into the business for rising theatrical leaders of shade working behind the scenes.
This 12 months’s recipients embody Uchenna Agbu (Rutgers College), Genevieve Bellavance (College of California, Berkeley), Shavante Brogley (Webster College), Paul Molina (Carnegie Mellon College), Meili Monk (College California, Irvine), Phanésia Pharel (College of California San Diego), Tia Smith (Yale College), Natalia Jiménez Torres (Florida State College), Joshua Treviño (Texas State College), and Mary (MK) Ware (College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Every scholar will take part in varied on-line mentorship seminars targeted on group constructing, management, and social justice. The scholarship comes with a $10,000 grant and an all-expenses-paid journey to New York Metropolis to fulfill with mentors and expertise New York’s theatre scene in particular person.
This 12 months’s scholarship choice committee featured BIPOC theatre professionals together with Richard, Lawrence Bennett, Jhanaë Bonnick, Dria Brown, Yang-Yang Chen, Ann James, Zhailon Levingston, Tina McCartney, Kenneth McGee, and Nzinga Williams.
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition is a multidisciplinary group which unites artists, authorized consultants, and group leaders to create lasting influence on coverage points from prison justice reform to training fairness to immigration.
The Bayless Household Basis has introduced the 2024 recipients of two grant packages for Chicago Theatres: the Stepping Stone Grants and Sign Grants. Stepping Stone Grants assist corporations at essential moments of their progress by offering $180,000 over the course of three years. This 12 months’s Stepping Stone Grant recipients are the Definition Theater and TimeLine Theatre Firm.
Definition Theater celebrates tales created with, impressed by, and meant for folks and communities of shade. They may use the grant to lease, equip, and rent workers for an interim efficiency house within the Hyde Park neighborhood, whereas TimeLine Theatre Firm will work to modernize the executive and monetary procedures of the group whereas they transition to their new uptown theatre house. Timeline presents tales impressed by historical past that join with at present’s social and political points with the intention to have interaction, entertain and enlighten.
Sign Grants range in measurement and are one-time funds awarded to organizations that reply to group wants. This 12 months’s Sign Grant recipients are Chicago Kids’s Theatre and Remy Bumppo Theatre Firm. Chicago Kids’s Theatre aspires to counterpoint their group by way of various and important theatrical and academic programming that engages and evokes the kid in all of us. They may obtain $100,000 to increase their trauma-informed-care program known as R.O.A.R. (Residencies of Arts and Resilience) to incorporate a Spanish-language curriculum and Remy Bumppo Theatre Firm will obtain $50,000 to assist and increase the Studio Bumppo professional-development program. Remy Bumppo seeks to increase and enrich their group’s view of the world, and their very own, by producing the nice performs of the previous and the vital performs of at present.
Based in 2017 by Rick and Deann Bayless, the Bayless Household Basis helps established Chicago theatre organizations with a imaginative and prescient for institutional and creative progress.
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