TCG/ITI Travel Grants
Spring/Summer 2008 Recipients
Actor/producer Bridgit Evans (New York, NY) and director/producer Cynthia Croot (Walla Walla, WA) will travel to Croatia to produce a high-profile radio docu-drama inspired by Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus, designed to focus media and public attention on Croatia’s sex trafficking crisis.
Joanna Klass (Costa Mesa, CA), artistic director of Arden-2 will travel to Poland to help coordinate 2009 Year of Grotowski worldwide events by the invitation of the Grotowski Institute.
Lark Play Development Center (New York, NY) playwrights Yussef El Guindi and Lloyd Suh, along with two Romanian playwrights, will work with the acting company of the National Theatre’s New Drama Festival at the Romanian National Theatre in Timisoara, Romania, to develop translations of their plays (based on the theme of “Emigrating to America”) for publication and future production.
Puppet artists Tom Lee and Matt Acheson (Brooklyn, NY) will travel to Rhodopean Drama Theater in Smolyan, Bulgaria to develop an experimental performance.
Mara Isaacs, producing director of McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ) will travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg to attend productions by director Alexander Morfov and begin collaborative planning with Russian producers.
Johanna Smith, associate professor of theatre education at CSUSB Theatre Arts (San Bernardino, CA) and Gina Pavlova (Bulgaria/Los Angeles, CA) will present a collaborative, multimedia puppetry work at the International Puppetry Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sheri Wills, scenery director/live video performer (New York, NY), Ofer Ben-Amots, composer/librettist/music director (Colorado Springs, CO) and actor Jeremy Wilhelm (Minneapolis, MN) will travel to collaborate with Czech Republic artists on a performance of The Dybbuk Project, at Theatrum Kuks in August.
Spring/Summer 2008 Panelists
A national independent selection panel comprised of theatre professionals reviewed applications for the Spring/Summer round of the TCG/ITI Travel Grants. The panelists were Sarah Benson, artistic director, Soho Rep (New York, NY); Jeff Church, artistic director, Coterie Theatre (Kansas City, MO); Jonathan Fox, executive artistic director, Ensemble Theatre Company (Santa Barbara, CA); James Haire, producing director, American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco, CA) and Helen Richardson, associate professor of theatre, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY).