NEW HAVEN, CONN.: Yale College has introduced the winners of the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes for fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. The drama winners embrace Christopher Chen of the USA and Sonya Kelly of Eire.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes award $175,000 to writers to assist their work and permit them to concentrate on artistic practices impartial of monetary issues.
Chen is a playwright from San Francisco who received an Obie Award for his play Caught, which implicates audiences in questions of artwork, historical past, identification, and expertise.
“Christopher Chen challenges our relationship to fact and accuracy, spectatorship and efficiency, repeatedly disrupting our expectations of drama and kind,” the prize choice committee, which is nameless, stated in a press release.
Kelly, one of the thrilling Irish voices of the previous decade, is thought for her performs As soon as Upon a Bridge and The Final Return.
“Sonya Kelly’s performs sparkle with the quirkiness of the on a regular basis, exploding fleeting moments into lyrical revelations, as she grapples with human fragility and pathos,” the choice committee stated.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes are named for lifelong companions Donald Windham and Sandy M. Campbell and had been first awarded in 2013.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.: Williamstown Theatre Competition (WTF) has named Beth Hyland the recipient of the 2024 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Hyland will obtain the $10,000 award for her play SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA and can obtain a further $10,000 as a fee to jot down a brand new play.
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA will obtain a studying this summer time at WTF as a part of the Fridays@3 sequence for brand spanking new works in growth. Moreover, the Geffen Playhouse has dedicated to additional growth for the piece within the 2024-24 season. The play follows a novelist who, grappling with author’s block and her husband’s rise to literary fame, seeks solace within the Boston residence as soon as inhabited by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
WTF administers the Weissberger New Play Award on behalf of the Anna L. Weissberger Basis and WTF trustee emeritus Fredda Harris.
NORTH HAVEN, CONN.: The Burry Fredrik Basis has named Omid Akbari the recipient of this yr’s Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship. The scenic designer will obtain a $10,000 award.
“Omid Akbari is an excellent addition to the exceptional group of Burry Fredrik Design Fellows from David Geffen College of Drama,” basis chair Barbara L. Pearce stated in a press release. “We’re proud to assist their work”
Akbari is a scenic designer and costume idea artist in his fourth yr of the MFA program in set design at David Geffen College of Drama. He served because the scenic designer for Yale Repertory Theatre’s Want You Have been Right here in 2023. He has labored extensively in scenic and costume design in his native Iran.
The Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship was established in 2017 to assist launch the careers of graduates from David Geffen College of Drama’s design packages.
HOUSTON: Theatre Underneath the Stars (TUTS) has introduced the 2024 recipients of the Tommy Tune Awards. Named for Houston native Tommy Tune, the awards acknowledge younger adults who contribute to theatre programming in excessive colleges within the higher Houston group.
Of the 28 Tommy Tune Award nominees for Excellent Efficiency in a Main Position, two had been chosen to signify TUTS on the Jimmy Awards, a nationwide celebration of highschool musical theatre achievement. These college students are Alyssa Dorsey for her efficiency in G.W. Carver Excessive College’s The Bodyguard and Eliran Masti for The Promenade at Kinder Excessive College for the Performing and Visible Arts. Runners-up embrace Natalie Inexperienced for Follies at Bridgeland Excessive College and Michael Deis for Stratford Excessive College’s forty second Road.
The Spirit Award was offered to Immanuel Poole of Westfield Excessive College for the teenager version of the musical Chicago. TUTS additionally acknowledged the ensembles of SIX: Teen Version at Dulles Excessive College, The Wizard of Oz at South Houston Excessive College, Mamma Mia! at Klein Excessive College, and After Midnight at Kinder Excessive College for the Performing and Visible Arts. A full checklist of winners is out there right here.
NEW YORK CITY: In Scena! Italian Theater Competition has named Fabio Bonfo the recipient of this yr’s Mario Fratti Award. Bonfo has received for his play El Desaparecido and will probably be offered with the award on the pageant’s closing ceremony on Might 13. The ceremony will embrace a studying directed by Laura Caparrotti.
El Desaparecido follows Argentine journalist and cartoon artist Héctor Germán Oesterheld in a narrative that mixes fantasy and actuality amidst Oesterheld’s 1977 disappearance. The play will obtain an English translation and be revealed as a part of the Mario Fratti Award.
Bonfo is a local of Vercelli, Italy and has labored as an actor, playwright, director, and educator all through Italy, Chile, and Argentina.
NEW YORK CITY: The Mellon Basis has awarded $500,000 to Garlia Cornelia Jones of Blackboard Performs and John Sloan III of Obsidian Theater Competition in assist of the Propulsion Theatre Undertaking (PTP). The partnership challenge is devoted to creating work that amplifies the theatre ecosystem of Detroit.
As a part of their first yr of programming, PTP will launch an annual symposium to deliver collectively theatremakers throughout Detroit. Panelists for the June symposium will focus on parenting within the arts, directing, and advocacy. PTP will associate with for-profit, nonprofit, and municipal entities in Detroit to propel cultural alternate, workforce growth, inventive creativity, and financial empowerment.
Each Detroit natives, Jones and Sloan have over twenty years of expertise creating and producing work for Black and underserved populations by their arts organizations.
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