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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Macbeth: Panel Discussions

In conjunction with FringeArts' presentation of Macbeth by South African theater artist Brett Bailey, a series of panel discussion will be held to explore the social, political, and artistic themes within the work.

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The Frank Rizzo Project

Theatre Exile explored ways to dramatize the story of Frank Rizzo, a polarizing Philadelphia political icon, with a special emphasis on group discussions with longtime residents of South Philadelphia.

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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Dust to Dust

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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Tony Award-Winner John Guare's Three-Part Epic on Stage, April 25–May 6

Philadelphia audiences can experience the world premiere of the first full presentation of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, April 25–May 6.

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Facing Front: Writing Dance

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a master class investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a performance can be made and what it might communicate to someone watching.

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An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams

New Paradise Laboratories' core ensemble will expand their devised theater techniques and lay the groundwork for a series of new pieces, through investigations of improvisational structures, games of chance, and audience interactivity, with a group of international practitioners including composer Bhob Rainey and UK game theory specialist Tassos Stevens.

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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

Taylor Mac

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

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Romeo Castellucci

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Destiny Estimate

Playwright MJ Kaufman debuts an experiment in narrative structure that combines several forms of storytelling, physical language, and a cappella choral music.

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Trey Lyford’s World Premiere of The Accountant Explores Memory and Loss through Physical Theater, Magic, and Crowdsourcing, Sept. 6–9

Philadelphia-based artist Trey Lyford creates an experience about memory and loss in the world premiere of The Accountant, running Sept. 6–9 at Christ Church Neighborhood House.

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FOURTEEN at the National Constitution Center: Spring 2020 Performances

The National Constitution Center presents FOURTEEN, a theatrical performance that sheds new light on the Reconstruction era and the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

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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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A Period of Animate Existence

A symphonic theater hybrid for actors, classical musicians, and multi-generational choirs offered a meditation on life and the future of the planet, set in a time of rapid ecological and technological changes.

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Dublin by Lamplight

Inis Nua produced the North American premiere of Michael West's play, which incorporates a combination of performance techniques.

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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

Case Study: New Paradise Laboratories’ Fatebook

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This Is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays

1812 Productions addressed current events in a production described as a combination of The Daily Show and The Carol Burnett Show.

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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

Christopher Colucci

Colucci's sound designs for theater are distinguished by their sense of musicality, and what he describes as a "sensitivity to the power of sound to evoke the ineffable."

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