Global Connections
Round 1 · Cycle B Recipients:
ON the ROAD
Mia Chung
Mia Chung (Providence, RI) will collaborate with musical theatre artist Yong Jin Song in Seoul, South Korea to create a bilingual, modern pansori (the traditional Korean art form of solo opera), about Korea's complicated love affair with the English language.
Dan O'BrienDan O'Brien (Santa Monica, CA) will travel with journalist Paul Watson to Kabul, Afghanistan to work on a play about Afghanistan's first English-language school in the 1990s for the children of the Taliban.
Katy RubinKaty Rubin (New York City) will exchange practices with Cardboard Citizens and Mind the Gap, two British theatres that work with homeless and learning-disabled actors, respectively, to enhance her directing work with those communities in New York.
Kate Sutton-JohnsonKate Sutton-Johnson (Minneapolis, MN) will travel to Congo Brazzaville to collaborate with American, British, Bantu and Pygmy artists using sustainable materials from urban and rain forest areas to create the set and visual elements for a theatre piece.
Carmen C. WongCarmen C. Wong (Washington, DC) will continue research and documentation with Finish collaborators and food designers in Helsinki, Finland to create a culturally-specific experiential food-and-performance hybrid.
San Francisco International Arts FestivalSan Francisco International Arts Festival(San Francisco) will partner with Erika Chong Shuch for travel to South Korea to build a collaborative team for the creation of a new multidisciplinary work inspired by stories about the sociopolitical situation in North Korea.
IN the LABLiza Bielby
Liza Bielby (Detroit, MI) will co-lead a month-long training exchange between U.S. physical theatre artists and xiqu artists in Shanghai, China, culminating in a workshop performance merging xiqu with American vaudeville.
Denise MaroneyDenise Maroney (New York City) will workshop an environmental play with Lucien Bourjeily and other Lebanese artists, for their upcoming productions in fishing enclaves along their country's coast.
Quest: Arts for EveryoneQuest: Arts for Everyone (Lanham, MD) will host deaf and hearing actors from FTH:K, Cape Town, South Africa, to create an original visual theatre piece that will tour in the U.S. and South Africa.
Round 1 · Cycle A Recipients:
ON the ROAD
Theater Three Collaborative, Inc.
Theater Three Collaborative, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) will collaborate with National Theater of Kosovo (Pristina, Kosovo) on two new plays from two cultural perspectives on the 9/11 attacks and aftermath.
Tricklock CompanyTricklock Company (Albuquerque, NM) will travel to Dah Theatre (Belgrade, Serbia) and Teatr Figur Krakow (Krakow, Poland) to lay ground work for future collaborations and seek companies to invite to Revolutions International Theatre Festivals 2012 and 2013.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre CompanyWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC) will attend the Golden Mask Festival (Moscow, Russia). They will engage with and learn from Russian artists — and thus prototype a rehearsal and production model that incorporates those insights.
Seth Bockley and Devon de MayoSeth Bockley and Devon de Mayo (Chicago, IL) will begin performance research and develop an original performance exploring the topic of violence with clown artist Artus Chavez (Mexico City, Mexico).
Rebecca GilmanThrough interviews with Swedish Americans and Swedes, Rebecca Gilman (Chicago, IL) will create a documentary play with Sven Benidktusson (Gothenburg, Sweden) set during the celebrations of the Karl Oskar days in Minnesota and Växjö, Sweden.
Richard NelsonRichard Nelson (Rhinebeck, NY) will collaborate with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Paris, France) on a series of new translations of major Russian plays.
IN the LAB
Interact Center for the Visual & Performing Arts
Interact Center for the Visual & Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) will continue to further research and develop "We Are All Africans" — an international, trans-media, multi-platform project by a team of American, British, Bantu and Pygmy artists (Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo).
Out of Hand TheaterOut of Hand Theater (Atlanta, GA) will collaborate again with site-specific theatre The Lunatics (Utrecht, Netherlands) and bring the company to Atlanta to research and develop Group Intelligence, an interactive outdoor theatre event about origins of life chemistry and water sustainability.
Erik EhnErik Ehn (Providence, RI) will present and expand the third annual Centre x Centre Theatre festival (Kigali, Rwanda), which will include workshops and performances from around the world, co-produced with local artists. Ehn's hope is to expand the festival to include Kampala, Uganda where he and his collaborators have a long-term relationship with the National Theater and Ugandan theatre professionals.