Animal Farm

2006

$80,000

Mum Puppettheatre-Animal Farm 2-2006

Bernard Bygott with Adrienne Mackey in Mum Puppettheatre’s Animal Farm.

Mum Puppettheatre premiered an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm under the direction of Pew Fellow, Mum founder, and artistic director Robert Smythe and playwright Andrew Periale. Over the course of two years, the cast of five engaged in intensive training, workshops, and public presentations to develop a distinct physical vocabulary that integrated masks and puppetry into the work. The project culminated in a world premiere during the 2008 election season.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jenny Gersten

Jenny Gersten is producing consultant for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York.

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Grants & Grantees

There

An ensemble-devised work, led by Blanka Zizka, adapts Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan’s book-length poem There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other and contemplates existential questions of personal and community identity and conflict, in an environment created by Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nora Quinn

Nora Quinn is the Director of Theatre Programs at the National Constitution Center, where she has led the creation of the museum’s theater programming since 2003.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Michael Rakowitz describes the process behind creating a performance and radio project involving American veterans and the Iraqi refugee community.

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Event

The End of the Way It Was Open Salon

New Paradise Laboratories continues its Center-funded investigation into improvisational structures, audience interactivity, and games of chance through the ongoing project An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Blanka Zizka

Blanka Zizka is the Founding Artistic Director of The Wilma Theater.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Pig Iron is a company specializing in exuberant ensemble-devised works. The organization has begun to train the next generation of daring physical theater artists through the Pig Iron School of Advanced Performing Training.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

FringeArts

FringeArts presents, develops, and commissions a range of high-quality contemporary performing and visual arts in Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice

Case Study: New Paradise Laboratories’ Fatebook

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Event

The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal

Thaddeus Phillips uses his two years on a telenovela as the jumping off point in The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal.

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Grants & Grantees

Adapt!

This world premiere play, written by the Wilma's artistic director Blanka Zizka, invites audiences to consider the immigrant experience and questions surrounding identity, homeland and exile, the idealism of youth, and the compromises of adulthood.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is a renowned playwright perhaps best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993.

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Grants & Grantees

Brett Bailey: Macbeth Performances and Residency

South African theater artist Brett Bailey will visit Philadelphia for a three-week residency and a presentation of his adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, presented in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia.

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News

Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso and Jennifer Kidwell

Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso (2017) and Jennifer Kidwell (2016) have been awarded artist residencies to cultivate in-progress works during the summer of 2020.

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Event

The Body Lautrec

Independent theater artists Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie collaborate on their first full-length theatrical work, The Body Lautrec, to explore the life of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Grants & Grantees

Sunday in the Park with George

The Arden Theatre Company produced a musical that sketched the artistic life and thoughts of Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and his great-grandson, also an artist.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and has been a guest contributor to Center publications.

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Golden Age

Philadelphia Theatre Company produced the world premiere of Terrence McNally's backstage period work about opera composer Vincenzo Bellini and the opening of his final opera.

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The Cripple of Inishmaan

Annenberg Center Live brought Ireland's Druid Theatre to Philadelphia for a weeklong engagement of Obie Award and Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh's production.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ain Gordon

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer, director, and actor. He served as the Center's Visiting Artist, from 2011–13 and 2018-19.

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