LOS ANGELES: The Daniel Okay. Inouye Nationwide Middle for the Preservation of Democracy on the Japanese American Nationwide Museum has awarded this 12 months’s Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship to Nicole Leung and Adam Wassilchalk. The fellows will every obtain a $5,000 award for the six-month fellowship.
Leung is a dancer, performer, and author whose work usually seems within the Dance Fanatic. She is a graduate of the Worldwide Ballet Academy and earned a BFA in dance from the Julliard College.
Wassilchalk is an arts and tradition critic, stage supervisor, and manufacturing supervisor whose work has been printed within the New Haven Impartial as a part of the Impartial Assessment Crew initiative. He holds a B.A. in theatre, dance, and efficiency research from Yale College.
The Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship is made attainable by way of a present from Sharon Mizota to honor her late aunt, Irene Yamamoto.
NEW YORK CITY: Candela has introduced the fellows for its second annual Playwrights Summer time Fellowship program, previously generally known as the Playwrights Summer time Jam. Based by author, director, and professor Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Candela works to shut the hole of geographic, financial, and social obstacles for rising playwrights, lyricists, and librettists of Latin American and Caribbean heritage.
The 2024 fellowship class consists of musical theatre writers, together with Khristián MĂ©ndez Aguirre, R. RĂ©al Vargas Alanis, Carissa Atallah, Phillip Gregory Burke, Jessica Carmona, Demian Chavez Galvan, Julio Hanson, Joshua Jean-Baptiste, Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, Maya Malan-Gonzalez, Allex Miranda, Ryan Oliveira, Samora la Perdida, PhanĂ©sia Pharel, Rosarito RodrĂguez, Nataylia Roni, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, and Dionne Verwey.
The Working Theater has introduced the recipients of the 2024-25 Mark Plesent Fee Fund: A.G. Norton and Alex Rodriguez.
Norton is a storyteller, archivist, and activist who has labored as a social employee and end-of-life doula. She has spent three years performing archival analysis on photographer Berenice Abbott, writing, performing, and touring a storytelling and slideshow manufacturing about Abbott’s work.
Rodriguez is a lifelong New Yorker who has written and produced the performs Sparks of Uncertainty and Smoke & Mirrors with Working Theater. His writing has additionally been featured within the Crimson Hook Star-Revue.
The Mark Plesent Fee Fund helps new play commissions for first-time playwrights offering mentorship, monetary assist, and developmental assets.
The Dramatists Guild Basis, in partnership with the Lillys, has named Darrin Terpstra and Morgan Webber-Ottey the 2024 recipients of the Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship. Every will obtain a $25,000 stipend for every year of graduate college matriculation and as much as $75,000 for dwelling bills.
Terpstra is a Korean American playwright who’s pursuing an MFA in playwriting on the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. They’re a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship.
Webber-Ottey is a “recovering lawyer” who now works as a screenwriter and script coordinator. She is an incoming MFA candidate at Northwestern College.
The Dramatists Guild Basis manages the $2.5 million Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship endowment and administers awarding of the fellowship every year. The fellowship helps the following era of ladies and nonbinary playwrights of coloration comply with within the footsteps of playwright Lorraine Hansberry no matter their financial state of affairs.
CINCINNATI: Theatre director and educator Olivia Bellido has been named the 2024 recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Musical Theatre Instructor of the 12 months Award. Bellido leads the thespian troupe at Charles E. Jordan Excessive College in Durham, N.C.
“Olivia Bellido is a primary instance of somebody who has devoted years full of expertise, creativity, and plain exhausting work to serving to her college students thrive and develop,” Schwartz mentioned in a press release, “and I’m proud she is receiving an award that bears my title.”
An alumna of Charles E. Jordan Excessive College, Bellido has taught efficiency there for 18 years and developed a student-led technical theatre program. Bellido has beforehand acquired an honorable point out from the Tony Awards for excellence in theatre schooling. She might be acknowledged on the Instructional Theatre Affiliation’s Theatre Training Convention in September.
MINNEAPOLIS: The Playwrights’ Middle has introduced their new cohort of Core Writers and Core Apprentices.
The Core Writers who will obtain three years of assist for new-play improvement embrace Cris Eli Blak, Brandy N. Carie, Chloé Hung, Charlie Oh, Alejandro Rodriguez, Jasmine Sharma, and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay.
Moreover, Salwa Meghjee, Ro Reddick, and Elle Thoni will be a part of PWC as Core Apprentices for the upcoming season, in partnership with the Kennedy Middle American Faculty Theater Competition. The Core Apprentice program funds and helps play improvement workshops all through a nine-month mentorship.
GLOBAL: TheTheatreTimes.com has received the 2024 award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Affiliation for Theatre in Larger Training and the American Society for Theatre Analysis. The award is granted yearly to a person or group that demonstrates innovation and rigor in the usage of digital media to provide and disseminate information about theatre and efficiency.
TheTheatreTimes.com is an all-volunteer, open-access international theatre and performing arts portal which strives to supply international theatre protection by way of native sources. Since its launch in November 2016, TheTheatreTimes.com has printed over 5,300 articles and theatre critiques overlaying theatre in 90 nations and areas and has over 60 media companions.
PARK CITY, UTAH: The Sundance Institute has introduced the 2024 cohort of the Sundance Ladies to Watch x Adobe Fellowship. The yearlong program helps and sustains the inventive practices of ladies artists, significantly filmmakers from underrepresented communities.
Among the many eight fellows is playwright Sylvia Khoury, who was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Promoting Kabul. Khoury additionally developed the characteristic movie script I’m Heather as a 2024 Sundance Administrators and Screenwriters Lab Fellow.
Fellows are awarded with a $6,250 money grant and a yearlong membership to Adobe Inventive Cloud, along with workshops and different profession improvement and networking alternatives.
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