Anu Yadav, Christine Toy Johnson, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Erlina Ortiz, Ife Olujobi, Matthew Paul Olmos, Melissa Li and Equipment Yan, Noa Gardner, Roger Q. Mason, Zachariah Ezer, Sharyn Rothstein, Emily Feldman, Sue Frost, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Paul Libin, Rochelle Chang, Talya Epstein, Lisa Jantze, Edgar Web page and Hollie Wright.
The Dramatists Guild Basis (DGF) has introduced the recipients of the Catalyst Fellowship, a brand new program that invests within the voices of Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latiné innovators to radically think about options to fairness, social justice, and wanted change in theatre by new developmental applications of their native and nationwide inventive communities. The fellows embrace Anu Yadav, Christine Toy Johnson, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Erlina Ortiz, Ife Olujobi, Matthew Paul Olmos, Melissa Li, Equipment Yan, Noa Gardner, Roger Q. Mason, and Zachariah Ezer.
Fellows will dedicate two years to ideation and experimentation, working to ship important and deliberate change in numerous areas, together with the atmosphere, financial system, race and id, cultural preservation, and LGBTQIA rights. Every Catalyst fellow will obtain $30,000 annually ($60,000 in whole), in addition to sources to help the event and implementation of their respective challenge proposals.
Playwright and DGF board member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins labored with a committee of fellow writers and trade leaders to pick out program individuals and decide funding distribution. The Catalyst Fellowship is made attainable with beneficiant help from C. Graham Berwind III.
Theater J has awarded the 2023 Patty Abramson Jewish Play Fee to Emily Feldman and the Trish Vradenburg New Jewish Play Prize to Sharyn Rothstein for her play adaptation of Hester Avenue. The fee, devoted to Theater J council founder Patty Abramson, awards $3,000 to a promising rising lady playwright whose work celebrates, explores, and/or struggles with the complexities and nuances of the Jewish expertise. That is the primary 12 months that the Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize has been offered as a fee to help the creation of a brand new play. Now in its fourth 12 months, Trish Vradenburg New Jewish Play Prize acknowledges a brand new play that celebrates, explores, and/or struggles with the complexities and nuances of the Jewish expertise. The prize awards $15,000 to a longtime playwright in honor of a brand new Jewish play, and is devoted to the reminiscence of philanthropist, playwright, and Alzheimer’s analysis advocate Trish Vradenburg, who served on Theater J’s Council for 13 years.
Feldman’s work has been developed by Magic Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Firm, the Playwrights Realm, Portland Heart Stage, New York Stage and Movie, the New Concord Venture, the Floor Ground at Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theater, and Second Stage, amongst others. Rothstein’s adaptation of the movie Hester Avenue, that includes music by Joel Waggoner, will premiere at Theater J this spring, adopted by the premiere of her book-banning drama Dangerous Books at Spherical Home Theatre in 2025. Her different performs embrace By the Water, All of the Days, Proper to Be Forgotten, and Deep Faux.
The Broadway League offered its 2023 Broadway League Management Awards to 3 recipients in the course of the league’s annual assembly on Tues. Sue Frost obtained the Member of the 12 months Award, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack obtained the Distinguished Service Award, and Paul Libin obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Frost is a founding member of Junkyard Canine Productions, which is devoted to growing and producing new musicals. Among the firm’s reveals embrace Come From Away, Memphis, First Date, and Physician Zhivago. Jennings-Roggensack is ASU vice chairman for cultural affairs and govt director of ASU Gammage, together with duty for ASU Kerr Cultural Heart, Desert Monetary Area, and ASU 365 Group Union, an initiative to remodel Solar Satan Stadium right into a year-round hub of cultural exercise. Libin is president of Circle within the Sq. Theatre and Theatre Faculty and has produced greater than 250 productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and on tour. Libin lately retired as govt vice chairman and producing director of Jujamcyn Theaters after 28 years.
The Leisure Group Fund has introduced 5 recipients of the 2023 Alex Dubé Scholarship Program. This 12 months the fund awarded $10,000 scholarships to Rochelle Chang, Talya Epstein, Lisa Jantze, Edgar Web page, and Hollie Wright. This system is known as for Alex J. Dubé, a former dancer, dance advocate, and president of Profession Transition For Dancers. By means of the scholarship program, Profession Transition For Dancers is ready to help the schooling of dancers to construct their subsequent skilled platforms. These one-time awards of as much as $10,000 per recipient are distributed yearly to dancers enrolled in accredited graduate diploma applications to help in tuition cost.
Chang, a former ballet dancer, is an elementary faculty instructor pursuing an MEd in Curriculum Research, on the College of Hawaiʻi, Faculty of Schooling. Epstein is a dance artist turned somatic therapeutic practitioner at the moment pursuing a Grasp’s in Scientific Social Work at Smith Faculty Faculty of Social Work. Jantzie is at the moment attending Columbia Faculty of Nursing MDE/DNP program and is working in direction of a profession as a nurse practitioner, following a 20-year profession that has spanned ballet corporations, precision dance, musical theatre, and movie and TV. Web page, who previously carried out with the Dayton Modern Dance Second Firm, the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, toured domestically and internationally for a decade, and established the Edgar L. Web page: Really feel the Motion arts initiative, is now finishing his MFA at Hollins College whereas serving as assistant professor of dance at Grand Valley State College. And Wright started her skilled profession on the Philadelphia Dance Firm (Philadanco!) and went on to carry out in Sizzling Toes, Ideas of a Coloured Man, The Coloration Purple, Oklahoma, Wonderful Grace, and Cabin within the Sky. She is pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a Efficiency Creation Focus at Goddard Faculty.
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