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

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College’s performing arts series has been presenting innovative works in the Philadelphia area since 1984

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News

On Stage This Spring: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Frank Zappa’s genre-defying The Yellow Shark, John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon, and More

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner is a legendary downtown theater artist, currently on faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was one of the founders of the Performance Studies department.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Rebecca Taichman

Rebecca Taichman is an Obie Award-winning theater director, whose work has been presented at theaters across the country, including American Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Old Globe, and ACT.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Russell Davis

Moments of grace or insight or good writing actually are dependent on a day-to-day process.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Actor Dulé Hill on Nat “King” Cole’s “Quiet Revolution”

Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.”

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Event

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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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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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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Grants & Grantees

Exploring Female Sexuality and Desire through Clown

Performer and theater artist Charlotte Ford researched and developed a new theatrical project that asked, "Can a woman be funny and sexy onstage at the same time?"

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Stuart Carden

Stuart Carden is a Chicago-based freelance director specializing in new plays and ensemble-devised works. Carden served as a 2014 Center LOI panelist in Performance and a 2015 panelist in Performance.

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Alias Ellis MacKenzie September 11–13

Thaddeus Phillips' new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela *Alias El Mexicano*, premieres as part of the 2015 Fringe Festival, September 11–13.

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Grants & Grantees

The Flea and the Professor

This production marked the Arden Theatre's first commission for its children's series.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dulé Hill

Dulé Hill is an actor best known for his work as Charlie Young on The West Wing. In 2017, he appeared in the Center-supported music-theater work, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, presented by People’s Light.

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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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Grants & Grantees

An Artist Embedded in History

Obie award-winning playwright Ain Gordon will "embed" himself in the Historical Society's daily functions, in order to reflect on the processes of how history gets documented and preserved.

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Re-Place-ing Philadelphia

Built on a foundation of public dialogue and interaction, the Re-Place-ing Philadelphia project used art as a lens for viewing the city and its history.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac is an award-winning playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer.

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Grants & Grantees

Our Show of Shows and Laughter on the 23rd Floor

1812 Productions produced two shows in repertory, a first for the all-comedy theater company.

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