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

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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Grants & Grantees

Red-Eye to Havre de Grace

Thaddeus Phillips produced his largest show to date: an original musical about the delirious final days of Edgar Allen Poe's life, which he spent traveling between New York and Richmond.

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In-Progress Showing of A Period of Animate Existence

Pig Iron Theatre Company presents an in-progress showing of its symphonic theater work A Period of Animate Existence, ahead of its September 2017 premiere.

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O17 Festival

Opera Philadelphia presents its inaugural season-opening, multi-venue opera festival, supported by a Center Advancement grant.

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The Object Lesson

Independent theater artist Geoff Sobelle tested ideas for his first-ever one-man show: an "archaeological dig of the here and now" that explores our relationship to "things."

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Soundtrack to Immigration: An Evening of Music from Adapt!

The Wilma Theater, in partnership with Intercultural Journeys and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Pennsylvania (HIAS), presents an evening of music from the world premiere of the play Adapt!.

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Heiner Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen

FringeArts presents Songs of Wars I Have Seen as part of its Center-supported project Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages.

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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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Mushroom

The world premiere of a new play by Eisa Davis considers the immigrant experience through stories of a suburban Philadelphia mushroom farming community.

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Facing Front Artist Talk: Building Performance

Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion will have spent the week with 35 Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and writers in an intensive workshop on process. This last day of the session will open a window into their work and process, allowing for time to talk formally and informally about how we build performances.

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I Promised Myself to Live Faster at the 39th Humana Festival of New Plays

Philadelphia's own Pig Iron Theatre Company premieres their Center-funded, Charles Ludlam-inspired piece at the prestigious Humana Festival in Louisville, KY.

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A Conversation with Warrior Writers

Following a performance of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, there will be a post-show conversation with representatives of nonprofit organization Warrior Writers.

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Grants & Grantees

The Body Lautrec

Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie are collaborating on their first full-length theatrical work, which will explore the life of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Pig Iron: I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Conceived by Co-Artistic Director Dito van Reigersberg and directed by Dan Rothenberg, this new work builds on Pig Iron's longtime fascination with characters that live on the margins of society.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Edgar J. Shockley III

Edgar J. Shockley III (Pew Fellow, 2008) sees his unique contribution to the world as reconciling African and European theatrical aesthetics, making us all more aware of what it means to be human.

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Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq

The Wilma Theater developed a new play with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and a full company of actors, charting a Marine's complicated return home from war.

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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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John Jarboe

John Jarboe is a director, performer, curator, and writer. He has created over 10 original cabaret-plays with his company The Bearded Ladies, producing original work for Opera Philadelphia, Eastern State Penitentiary, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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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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Alias Ellis MacKenzie September 15–19

Thaddeus Phillips' new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela *Alias El Mexicano*, continues September 15–19.

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