New Generations Program
Objective #3: Future Collaborations
Future Collaborations: Round 8 Summer/Fall Recipients
Playwright/director Chay Yew (New York, NY) will travel to Singapore to collaborate with Ong Keng Sen and Brian Gothong Tan, director and video/film artist respectively, in writing a new theatre piece, Vivien and the Shadows.
A Contemporary Theatre (Seattle, WA) will host and collaborate with Luca Ronconi, artistic director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano (Milan, Italy), on John Barrow's Infinites.
Barclay Goldsmith, producing artistic director of Borderlands Theater (Tucson, AZ) continues their bi-national exchanges with Mexican actors and playwrights to further the Borderlands US/Mexico program.
Interact Theater (Minneapolis, MN) will host playwright/theatre artist Jean Leopold Ngoulou (Republic of Congo) to begin a cultural and artistic dialogue in preparation for an international collaboration, We Are All Africans (working title).
Northern Stage (White River Junction, VT) will deepen its existing relationship with Ndiripo Kana Muripo Theater Collective (Harare, Zimbabwe) by collaborating with company member Michael Kudakwashe for six weeks in Vermont.
Heidi S. Howard, education director of 7 Stages Theatre (Atlanta, GA) will travel to the Netherlands to develop her relationship with ZID Theatre, including specific work with the DIZZ KIDS youth program and plan future collaborations.
Stages Theatre Company (Hopkins, MN) will host Lee Lyford, artistic director at the young people’s theatre at Theatre Royal's the egg theatre (UK) to plan a youth artist exchange in which young people from both companies will travel to each other's theatres to perform.
Sundance Institute Theatre Program (Beverly Hills, CA) will support the residency of Rwandan playwright/director Odile Gakire Katese as a playwright-in-residence at the Sundance Theatre Lab in Sundance, Utah.
SELECTION PANEL
A national independent selection panel, comprised of theatre professionals from across the United States, reviewed applications for this round of Future Collaborations. The selection panel included Catherine Coray, festival director, hotINK International Festival of Play Reading at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New York, NY); Ruth Mayleas, board member, League of Professional Theatre Women (New York, NY); Caridad Svich, playwright (South Gate, CA) and Kate Warner, artistic director, Dad’s Garage (Atlanta, GA).
Future Collaborations: Round 7 Spring/Summer Recipients
The Civilians’ (New York, NY) artistic director Steven Cosson will travel to Colombia and Venezuela to plan for future collaboration, particularly with Teatro San Martin in Caracas, Venezuela and Mapa Teatro in Bogotá, Colombia.
Golden Thread Productions (San Francisco, CA) will host Israeli playwright Motti Lerner to collaborate with the creative team developing Benedictus, a new play created by artists from Iran, Israel and the US.Benedictus will open in San Francisco on October 1, 2008.
Director Ricardo Khan (Hoboken, NJ) will travel to the Theatre Royal Stratford East in the United Kingdom and the Market Theatre in the Republic of South Africa to meet with artistic leaders to explore future collaboration ideas.
Director, dramaturge and teacher Roberta Levitow (Santa Monica, CA) will travel to four East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to develop and strengthen artistic links between U.S. and East African artists. Ms. Levitow will lead new writing workshops at Kenya’s The Theatre Co., Rwanda's Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center, Tanzania's Parapanda Arts, and Uganda's National Theatre.
Playwright Danai Gurira will travel to Liberia where she will workvarious women's organizations, UN Organizations who work specifically with female ex-combatants,and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission toconduct research for a new play that she will be further developing at McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ).
Independent theatre artist Artemis Preeshl (Roseville, MN) will travel to the Republic of Albania to collaborate with Albanian director Arben Kumbaro. Ms Preeshl and Mr. Kumbaro plan to create a new play synthesizing the impact of capitalism on contemporary and historical violence, including revenge killing, with traditional Albanian music, Dervish and folk dances.
Stages Theatre Copany's (Hopkins, MN) artistic director Sandy Boren-Barrett will travel to Theatre Royal Bath’s Egg Theatre in the United Kingdom to explore the idea of forming a youth exchange in which actors from both companies will perform together in a co-commissioned musical.
Director Ivan Talijancic (New York, NY) will travel to Zagreb, Croatia where he has been invited by Zagrebacko Kazaliste Mladih (Zagreb Youth Theatre) to get acquainted with the theatre’s acting ensemble, facilities and working methods. Mr. Talijancic will also meet with the theatre’s artistic staff to discuss plans for a future production.
Teatro del Pueblo’s (St. Paul, MN) artistic director Alberto Justiniano will travel to Peru along with playwright Kiseung Rhee to finish work on Mr. Rhee’s latest piece, Nesian. The piece, commissioned by Teatro del Pueblo, explores the unique Japanese/Peruvian experience during World War II.
Future Collaborations: Round 7 Fall/Winter Recipients
Denise Gabriel, resident movement coach at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) traveled to South Africa to teach movement communication and to study traditional African movement for future ASF performances.
New York City-based performer David Barlow traveled to Germany to begin work on a new theatre piece with the Biorama Projekt, and to teach a series of workshops on movement and theatre at the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin.
Actor Electa Behrens of Belfast, ME traveled to Norway to participate in a research and development project, Primarily Vertical: Stage 1, with theatre director Jorn Riegels Vimpel. The program served in the development of Vimpel’s long-term research on songs from oral traditions and actively explored it within the theatrical structures of Luigi Pirandello’s In Silence and Man with a Flower in His Mouth.
Joanna Sherman, Artistic Director of the Bond Street Theatre Coalition (New York, NY) traveled to Afghanistan to collaborate with Exile Theatre on a new project of performances and workshops for emerging theatres.
Playwright and Artistic Director of Ping Chong & Company (New York, NY) Ping Chong traveled to Japan to attend creative meetings with Yukiza Marionette Theatre and puppet artist Atsushi Yamato to discuss a future collaboration.