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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ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Bryn Mawr College

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury on April 9.

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A Billion Nights on Earth FringeArts Holiday Performances

Thaddeus Phillips' family-friendly, visual theater work returns to FringeArts for a series of special holiday performances.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

J. Rufus Caleb

Playwright and 2008 Pew Fellow J. Rufus Caleb strives to create theater experiences that are "as visceral as they are intellectual."

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Diane Ragsdale

Performing arts expert Diane Ragsdale, a frequent panelist and keynote speaker at arts conferences, is pursuing a PhD in cultural economics at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

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Questions of Practice

*The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory*

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory gathers the work of leading cultural practitioners who theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.

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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

Juliette Carrillo

Juliette Carrillo is a nationally recognized theater director, writer, and award-winning filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. Carrillo served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2015.

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Questions of Practice

Case Study: New Paradise Laboratories’ Fatebook

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Grants & Grantees

Food Court

FringeArts presented the only American showing of this production by Australia's Back to Back Theatre—a company known for creating works by and for an ensemble of actors perceived to have intellectual disabilities.

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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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News

On Stage This Fall: Opera Philadelphia’s First Festival, Premieres from New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Tempesta di Mare, and More

An abundance of Center-funded performances take the stage this fall.

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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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The Metamorphoses of Don Juan

Opera Philadelphia and the Wilma Theater will explore the Don Juan legend in scenes from theatrical works inspired by the famed lover.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Paula Vogel

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's current playwriting project is a Center-funded commission for Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, based on Don Juan Returns from the War.

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Adapt!: A Forum for What?: American Theater and Politics Today

The Wilma Theater presents a panel discussion on the role of theater in our current political landscape.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Meiyin Wang

Meiyin Wang is the associate artistic producer of The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival and Symposium in New York, which presents new and cutting-edge theatrical work from the U.S. and abroad.

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Grants & Grantees

The News with Dan Hoyle

First Person Arts commissioned San Francisco playwright/performer Dan Hoyle to develop a new journalistic theater work about the news—the organization's first commissioned work for theater.

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Freedom Club

New Paradise developed this world premiere production, a sci-fi/historical riff on the American Civil War and a showdown inspired by a government raid in 1992.

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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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