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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mara Isaacs

Mara Isaacs is the founder and director of Octopus Theatricals LLC, a company dedicated to producing and consulting in the performing arts.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Home

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Home, the third part in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

FringeArts

FringeArts presents, develops, and commissions a range of high-quality contemporary performing and visual arts in Philadelphia.

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Adapt! (Event)

The Wilma Theater presents the world premiere of Adapt!, written by artistic director Blanka Zizka, and drawing on her personal experiences as a Czech émigré to the US in the 1970s.

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Macbeth

FringeArts presents South African theater artist Brett Bailey's adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, performed by the performance group Third World Bunfight.

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A Billion Nights On Earth

Performance art, pop-up storybook design techniques, and a cinematic score will combine in a visual theater work for children and adults devised and performed by Phillips, in collaboration with visual artist Steven Dufala and composer Juan Gabriel Turbay.

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Grants & Grantees

Adapt!

This world premiere play, written by the Wilma's artistic director Blanka Zizka, invites audiences to consider the immigrant experience and questions surrounding identity, homeland and exile, the idealism of youth, and the compromises of adulthood.

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Representing the Veteran Experience

Following Tuesday's performance of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, veterans will speak about the challenges of representing their experiences artistically.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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News

Tiny Dynamite’s US Premiere of Perfect Blue Showcases Two Actors on Two Continents, with One Live Internet Connection, July 14–23

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Perfect Blue

Tiny Dynamite presents a digital theatrical experience co-produced with British theater company Pursued By A Bear.

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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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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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Grants & Grantees

Dividing the Estate

People's Light & Theatre Company produced the regional premiere of this production by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote.

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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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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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Blanka Zizka

Blanka Zizka is the Founding Artistic Director of The Wilma Theater.

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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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I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Pig Iron Theatre Company will create a melodrama inspired by the aesthetic of theater legend Charles Ludlam, founder of Greenwich Village's Ridiculous Theatrical Company.

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