Collaborators & Colleagues

Sebastienne Mundheim

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Performance artist Sebastienne Mundheim is the founder of White Box Theatre. A storyteller, installation artist, and educator, Mundheim has been creating interdisciplinary performance and arts-based community events for 20 years. She began her career as a painter and writer, earning her BA and BFA at the University of Pennsylvania before transitioning into performance-based practices. In 2007, Mundheim created the interdisciplinary performance work Sea of Birds, based on her mother’s experience fleeing Latvia during WWII.

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Sea of Birds

Theater

Heritage

Grants & Grantees

Three Sisters

The Arden Theatre Company embarked upon a two-year study of the work of Anton Chekhov, resulting in a new translation of Three Sisters, the first Chekhov play to be produced at the Arden.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Václav Havel

Václav Havel was a renowned playwright and political activist who became president of the Czech Republic in 1990, the country's first noncommunist leader since 1948.

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Lydie Breeze Trilogy

The world premiere of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, an epic trilogy about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, will be performed in a consecutive cycle for the first time.

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Melancholy, A Comedy

Sarah Felder's solo performance piece combined comedy, juggling, and multi-media projections to address societal discomfort around mental illness.

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Ruined

The Philadelphia premiere of Lynn Nottage's 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning play was the centerpiece of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's 35th anniversary season.

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August: Osage County

The Kimmel Center presented the regional premiere of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, starring Oscar Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons.

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THERE

An ensemble-devised work, led by Blanka Zizka, adapts Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan’s book-length poem There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other and contemplates existential questions of personal and community identity and conflict, in an environment created by Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Melanie Joseph

Director and producer Melanie Joseph is the artistic producer and founder of the Foundry Theatre in New York City.

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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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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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Grants & Grantees

A House With No Walls

This world premiere by resident playwright and Pew Fellow Thomas Gibbons, developed by InterAct Theatre Company, addressed the legacy of slavery and issues of cultural identity.

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Alias Ellis MacKenzie September 11–13

Thaddeus Phillips' new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela *Alias El Mexicano*, premieres as part of the 2015 Fringe Festival, September 11–13.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Michael Rakowitz describes the process behind creating a performance and radio project involving American veterans and the Iraqi refugee community.

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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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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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Directors Gathering Dialogue: The Women of Adapt!

The Wilma will present an audience-led conversation with Adapt! playwright and director Blanka Zizka, composer and music director Mariana Sadovska, and choreographer Silvana Cardell.

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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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The Emperor Jones

FringeArts presented the Wooster Group's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones during the 2007 Fringe Festival.

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Macbeth

The Wilma Theater presented the first production of Shakespeare in the theater's 37-year history.

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