Salaries for New Full-Time Staff

1998

$55,000

To supplement salaries for the full-time and freelance artistic and production staffs. Included in this grant was creation of a full-time Costume Supervisor. Previous hiring had been on a show-by-show basis.

Theater

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Endless Shout: Raúl de Nieves

As part of the ICA's ongoing interdisciplinary project Endless Shout, multimedia artist and designer Raúl de Nieves presents a series of performances.

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Grants & Grantees

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon

Artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley contemplate the impact of climate change in an immersive installation of filmed performances, set in both the past and a speculative future.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins on Process in Theater-Making

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Kimmel Center, Inc., best known as a presenting organization and home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet, is one of the most well-attended cultural venues in Philadelphia.

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Romeo Castellucci Film Screening and Discussion with Tom Sellar

This free event includes film excerpts of Romeo Castellucci's theater works, and a discussion with scholar and critic Tom Sellar about Castellucci's approach.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Aipotu

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Aipotu, the second of three performances in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

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Food Court

FringeArts presented the only American showing of this production by Australia's Back to Back Theatre—a company known for creating works by and for an ensemble of actors perceived to have intellectual disabilities.

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News

In Print: The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

How does the body serve as a repository for knowledge? On June 26, 2018 we see the release of our latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory.

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The Quiet Circus

A 15-month-long series of performances and conversations held at sites along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers explored the city’s maritime and industrial heritage while considering human interaction with an urban landscape, community, and the contemplative.

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Fallow

People's Light & Theatre Company produced the world premiere of this work by Kenneth Lin, based in part on deadly attacks on immigrants that took place near the playwright's childhood home.

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Heiner Goebbels: Stifters Dinge

FringeArts presents the Philadelphia premiere of Stifters Dinge from Heiner Goebbels.

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Freedom Club

New Paradise developed this world premiere production, a sci-fi/historical riff on the American Civil War and a showdown inspired by a government raid in 1992.

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Melancholy, A Comedy

Sarah Felder's solo performance piece combined comedy, juggling, and multi-media projections to address societal discomfort around mental illness.

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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at Walker Art Center

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Jeremy and David Wilhelm to create an action-opera centered on the odd details surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Lydie Breeze Trilogy

The world premiere of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, an epic trilogy about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, will be performed in a consecutive cycle for the first time.

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Questions of Practice

Ain Gordon, 2018-19 Visiting Artist

We asked returning Center Visiting Artist, playwright, director, and actor Ain Gordon to reflect on developments in artistic practice and what he’s observing in the Philadelphia cultural community.

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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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Sophia’s Forest

Composer Lembit Beecher presents a multi-disciplinary chamber opera that focuses on the experience of childhood.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Whit MacLaughlin

Whit MacLaughlin is a theater artist, the founder of New Paradise Laboratories, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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Grants & Grantees

ALIAS

Theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, a 2002 Pew Fellow, will create a new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela Alias El Mexicano.

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