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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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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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

Jenny Gersten

Jenny Gersten is producing consultant for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York.

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Grants & Grantees

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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ear-whispered: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Twelve Gates Arts

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury at Twelve Gates Arts.

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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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Grants & Grantees

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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News

Center’s Latest Book, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, Now in Print

The Center’s latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, is available June 26, 2018.

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Event

There

The Wilma Theater presents a world premiere adaptation of There by Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan.

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Theatre Exile produced the Philadelphia premiere of Martin McDonagh's darkly comic bloodbath.

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Questions of Practice

25 Years of Pew Fellowships in the Arts: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Paula Marincola and Melissa Franklin reflect on a quarter-century of direct support to artists—how we got started, how the program has evolved, and what we've learned.

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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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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at New York Theatre Workshop

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create this action-opera about Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Grants & Grantees

Superterranean

The world premiere of a design-driven theater work, created in collaboration with MacArthur Fellow and Tony Award-winner Mimi Lien, considers how underground architecture, built environments, and hidden networks influence human behavior.

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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

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Alan Brown

San Francisco-based Alan Brown is principal of WolfBrown, a leading researcher and management consultancy in the nonprofit arts industry.

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Reading of The Rizzo Project

Theatre Exile presents a staged reading of their work-in-progress play about Philadelphia political figure Frank Rizzo.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dito van Reigersberg

Dito van Reigersberg is a theater artist, a co-founder and co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and a 2002 Pew Fellow.

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