Welcome to Yuba City

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Recipient

Grant Year 2008

Grant Amount $75,000

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

Pig Iron Theatre Company developed and produced Welcome to Yuba City, a cowboy-clown odyssey presenting fragments of what the company called "a mythic American desertscape." Created by the Pig Iron ensemble, in collaboration with songwriter Michael Friedman and master clown teacher Giovanni Fusetti, Welcome to Yuba City featured a vast set inside a warehouse, designed by MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien. Directed by Pew Fellow Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel (2002), the production starred Pew Fellows Geoff Sobelle (2006) and Dito van Reigersberg (2002), as well as James Sugg, Sarah Sanford, and other Pig Iron company members.

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Pig Iron Theatre Company

Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, Pig Iron Theatre Company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works that defy easy categorization. Over the course of its lifespan, Pig Iron has created more than two dozen original works and has toured to festivals and venues across the US, Europe, and Asia. Pig Iron trains the next generation of daring physical theater artists through the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training.

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