CHICAGO: The Walder Basis has introduced that it’ll award $2.4 million to Chicago-area performing artists by means of the inaugural Platform Awards. Twelve music, theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary arts professionals will obtain unrestricted grants of $200,000 every.
The 2024 Platform Award winners for theatre embrace Lili-Anne Brown, a director, actor, and educator who was previously the inventive director of Bailiwick Chicago; author, performer, and Joyce Award winner Sandra Delgado; and puppeteer, director, and multimedia artist Myra Su.
“The Platform Awards uplift the work of excellent mid-career performing artists, enabling them to proceed to develop and advance their careers in order that Chicago stays a thriving vacation spot for the humanities for generations to come back,” Walder Basis president and govt director Elizabeth Walder mentioned in an announcement.
Platform Award recipients will obtain monetary help by means of 2026, together with skilled growth and workshop alternatives.
NEW YORK CITY: The Lucille Lortel Theatre has introduced the inaugural recipients of the 121 Undertaking, a commissioning program. Awardees will obtain as much as $10,000 for the creation of a brand new musical.
The profitable tasks embrace Barnstormer, with e-book and lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis and music by Douglas J. Cohen; The Break, with e-book and lyrics by Christopher Dimond and music by Michael Kooman; Coal by Nicholas Connors; Hart Island, with e-book and lyrics by Michelle Elliott and music and lyrics by Danny Haengil Larsen; and Little Duende, with e-book and lyrics by Georgina Escobar and music and lyrics by Robi Hager.
“121 Undertaking is a bespoke growth program designed to satisfy the person wants of a selected second,” Michael Heitzman, the Lortel’s inventive director of latest musical growth, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re thrilled to be serving to these 5 tasks advance to their subsequent stage of growth and hope that the help of the Lucille Lortel Theatre may be transformational.”
Moreover, the Alcove on the Lortel program has named a 3rd spherical of commissioned playwrights: Hassan Abdulrazzak, Lucas Baisch, Sunny Drake, Georgina Escobar, Zachary Kline, Alex Lin, Tatiana Pandiani & Danny Tejera, Savannah Reich, Arturo Luís Soria, Marissa Joyce Stamps, and Andrea Stolowitz.
The Alcove will even welcome Annabel Nightingale as its second visible artist in residence, in addition to a gaggle of playwrights working in analysis and dramaturgical growth within the fall: S.T. Brant, Allyson Dwyer, Christine Toy Johnson, Gloria Oladipo, and Drew Woodson.
The Alcove on the Lortel program is led and curated by Caridad Svich, the Lortel’s inventive director of latest play growth.
Rattlestick Theater has named Alex Lin and kanishk pandey to be their 2024-25 Van Lier New Voices Fellows. The fellowship for rising playwrights of colour supplies a $35,000 residing stipend and a $5,000 inventive fund, together with mentorship and workshop and studying alternatives.
“Alex and kanishk are exceptional writers whose work is each playful and fearless, searing and adventurous,” Rattlestick inventive director Will Davis mentioned in an announcement. “I’m honored and grateful to help the invaluable artwork they are going to create this yr and eagerly anticipate sharing their work with our group.”
LONG BEACH, CALIF.: Musical Theatre West has introduced the recipients of the 2024 Footlighters Scholarships for highschool college students in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. Scholarships are awarded to college students within the areas of music, dance, theatre, and stage administration.
Orange County scholarship recipients embrace Makayla Palos Rodriguez, Conrad Mai, Francisco Ochoa, Avani Arhin, Anna Mut, Gigi Coo, Mollie Holbrook, Daniel Sidoni, Macaila Dorney, and Miranda Younger. Los Angeles County scholarship recipients embrace Ava Carolina Jimenez, Ava Isabella Miranda, Jaclyn Goshert, Kai Maldonado, Evan Garcia, Case Fulton, Giovanna Bearman, and Kayla Epstein.
Musical Theatre West is the biggest arts producer within the Lengthy Seashore space.
NATIONWIDE: The 5 theatres of the Era Now partnership (Latino Theater Firm, Ma-Yi Theater Firm, Native Voices, Penumbra, and Youngsters’s Theatre Firm) have introduced a number of commissions of latest works by BIPOC artists.
Present commissions embrace Michi Barall’s Drawing Classes; Dustin Tahmahkera’s Comanche Lady on the Moon; Ifa Bayeza’s One Small Alice; Gabriel Rivas Gómez’s Stage Up; Kalani Queypo and Chadwick Johnson’s The Mainlanders; Lloyd Suh and Diana Oh’s The Science Honest Undertaking; an untitled undertaking by Nambi E. Kelley; and Latino Theater Firm’s Folklórico.
Every fee is a co-commission, and the purpose of the Era Now program is that every theatre will produce every new undertaking. Era Now works to increase the canon of labor produced for multigenerational audiences. The accomplice theatres are dedicated to co-commissioning and co-developing 16 new works in a five-year interval, which started in 2021.
NEW YORK CITY: The Museum of Modern African Diasporan Arts and Asian American Arts Alliance have introduced the cohort for the third annual Bandung Residency. The cohort contains theatre artist Phillip Gregory Burke, who will obtain an honorarium and mentorship by means of this system.
Burke is a playwright, actor, and humanities activist who will use the Bandung Residency to develop a play about two opposing empires in search of management of a seaport in medieval India. He’s a 2024 Nationwide Affiliation of Latino Arts and Cultures Arts Fund grantee along with his group DIEZ and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. Burke holds an MA in performing from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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