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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A Billion Nights on Earth at Brooklyn Academy of Music

Thaddeus Phillips brings his family-friendly, visual theater work to the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival.

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The Accountant

This visual theater work blends vaudeville routines, illusion, origami, and kinetic set elements to tell the story of a life remembered and the frailty of human experience.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Theater Artist Jennifer Kidwell

Theater artist and Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell on how she became an artist, the role of humor in her work, Philadelphia’s arts scene, and more.

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Leaving

The Wilma Theater produced the American premiere of the first new play in 20 years by renowned playwright and former President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.

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A Fierce Kind of Love at FringeArts

Originally commissioned by the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University in 2014, A Fierce Kind of Love has been remounted for FringeArts’ High Pressure Fire Service series.

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The First Day of School

1812 Productions, Philadelphia's all-comedy theater company, workshopped and produced the shared world premiere of a "soccer-mom sex farce" by Billy Aronson.

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Elephant Room

Theater artist Geoff Sobelle honored his roots with a multilayered show about three magicians, simultaneously presented as a real magic show and a hoax.

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Two Works by Romeo Castellucci

FringeArts presents the Philadelphia premieres of the second and third works in a trilogy by world-renowned experimental theater artist Romeo Castellucci at its 2013 and 2014 festivals.

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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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LIVE REMIX: Stage Adaptations in the New Media Age

LIVE REMIX is a three-part event guest curated by Tom Sellar, including a discussion with director Ivo van Hove, part of a series of programming related to the Center-funded performance of Ivo van Hove's work After the Rehearsal/Persona.

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Theatre Exile presents Rizzo

Theatre Exile presents the world premiere production of Rizzo, based on Sal Paolantonio's best selling book Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America, written by playwright and Pew Fellow Bruce Graham.

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News

Coming in 2018: Center-Funded Projects from Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Tania El Khoury, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and More

The coming year brings engaging and cutting-edge Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Theater Artist Alex Torra

https://www.teamsunshineperformance.com/the-sincerity-project-in-depth.htmlTheater artist Alex Torra (2018) spoke to us about his concentration on physical theater and why language sometimes feels “limiting,” as well as his in-progress work rooted in his Cuban American familial history.

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The Accountant

Theater artist Trey Lyford premieres a visual theater piece that tells the story of a life remembered and the frailty of human experience.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part II

Part II of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1896–Present as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Cold Harbor

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

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

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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

Alex Torra

Torra’s ensemble-created, experimental performance work invites audiences to consider the complexities of contemporary cultural identity, community, and humanity.

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A House With No Walls

This world premiere by resident playwright and Pew Fellow Thomas Gibbons, developed by InterAct Theatre Company, addressed the legacy of slavery and issues of cultural identity.

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