Theatre Washington has named Rebecca Medrano the recipient of the 2024 Victor Shargai Management Award. Medrano is the co-founder and govt director of GALA Hispanic Theatre, serving in her submit since 1976. An awards ceremony will likely be held Jan. 22 on the ATLAS Performing Arts Middle, in tandem with the announcement of the 2024 Helen Hayes Awards nominations.

“Rebecca Medrano has been a pacesetter in our theatre group for nearly 50 years, and her work to create a nationally acknowledged Hispanic performing arts establishment in Washington, D.C. and dedication to progressive inventive endeavors is immeasurable,” Theatre Washington president and CEO Amy Austin stated in a press release.

The Perelman Performing Arts Middle (PAC NYC) and Galvan Initiatives have introduced a brand new program, the Democracy Cycle, which is able to fee 25 works throughout theatre, opera, dance, and music. The Democracy Cycle will ask artists to discover themes regarding the character, apply, and expertise of democracy.

Chosen artists will obtain a $35,000 fee, in addition to an extra $35,000 for challenge growth. All 25 initiatives will likely be commissioned over a five-year interval, with a minimum of eight artists chosen within the subsequent three years.

“Given our location on the World Commerce Middle, I’m particularly thrilled that PAC NYC is partnering with Galvan Initiatives on the Democracy Cycle,” Invoice Rauch, PAC NYC inventive director, stated in a press release. “Performing artists are uniquely outfitted to strengthen our understanding of what it means to stay in a democratic society, and I’m assured that the works generated by this commissioning program will each entertain and enlighten, create empathy and understanding, provoke questions, and open doorways to different factors of view.”

The Democracy Cycle will likely be managed by challenge director Boo Froebel. The primary submission window opens Jan. 16 and closes April 1.

YoungArts just lately held its intensive program, Nationwide YoungArts Week, that includes 151 younger artists throughout 10 disciplines. Contributors attend lessons and interdisciplinary workshops with acclaimed artists and are eligible for monetary awards of as much as $10,000, in addition to nominations as U.S. Presidential Students within the Arts. Standout performances in musical theatre included Alexis Muturi of Dallas; Religion Dolan of Natick, Mass.; and Chase Ra’Mel Phillips of Louisville. Standout performances in theatre included Kadiatou Beye of Roodeport, South Africa; Mallian Buttler of Grand Prairie, Texas; Irene Zhong of Honolulu; and Christian Trimmingham of Interlochen, Mich.

28 New York state cultural organizations will obtain a complete of $135,000 in grants to supply open captioning (OC) and closed captioning (CC) providers from the Theatre Improvement Fund‘s (TDF) TAP Plus Awards program, administered by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Any establishment that at present receives NYSCA funding is eligible to use for a TAP Plus grant of as much as $5,000.

The 2024 TAP Plus grant recipient organizations embody: Atlantic Theater Firm, BRIC, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Curiosity Cupboard, Instructional Alliance, EPIC Gamers, Fiasco Theater, Geva Theatre Middle, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Pageant, Kyoung’s Pacific Beat, La MaMa, MCC Theater, Nationwide Dance Institute, The New Group, New York Theatre Barn, New York Theatre Workshop, Perelman Performing Arts Middle, Pipeline Theatre Firm, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, SheNYC Arts, Signature Theatre, Symphony House, Syracuse Stage, Theater Breaking By means of Boundaries, Theatre for a New Viewers, and College Settlement Society of New York.

Ford’s Theatre has introduced the second cohort of writers to obtain the Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions. Playwrights Nilo Cruz, Chess Jakobs, Gloria Reuben, Jeanne Sakata, and Madeline Sayet will take part within the commissions course of that features first readings, developmental workshops, and world premiere productions inside the subsequent decade. The Legacy Commissions are designed to function inventive incubators for tales about unsung heroes chargeable for altering the course of civil rights and equality in American life. The inaugural cohort of commissioned playwrights from 2021 contains Pearl Cleage, Rickerby Hinds, Nambi E. Kelley, Dominic Taylor, and Charlayne Woodard.

The theatre will current The Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions: A First Look studying competition, Jan. 26-27. Now in its second 12 months, this competition will embody readings of the remaining works of the theatre’s inaugural class of commissions, in addition to the primary studying from this system’s second cohort. The lineup contains A Designer of Word, A Lady of Type by Charlayne Woodard, in regards to the lifetime of clothier Ann Lowe; SISTER X by Nambi E. Kelley, a few younger mom’s quest to share her life’s challenges with Malcolm X; and The American 5 by Chess Jakobs, which explores present-day biases and racial discord inside a graduate classroom.

Karamu Home has chosen 17 native artists to obtain awards by way of the Room within the Home (RITH) fellowship program. Funded by way of a Help for Artists grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Tradition, RITH awards are designed to empower artists’ inventive practices and embody a $5,000 monetary award, digital exhibition presence, and house at Karamu for creation, exhibition, and efficiency. Functions for the fellowship have been open to Cuyahoga County-based artists with a demonstrated dedication to their visible arts or performance-based work and alignment with Karamu’s imaginative and prescient of socially and culturally responsive artwork that celebrates the Black expertise.

Room within the Home visible arts fellows embody Drew Benton, Davon Brantley, Chelsea Craig, Aja Joi Grant , Adenike Harper, Theresa Highbaugh, Brinase Merrit, Bobbi Reagins , and Lacy Talley . RITH performing arts fellows embody Obediya Jones-Darrell , Kisha Nicole Foster , Jailyn Sherell Harris , Kierra McDade, Martinique Mims, Avery Lamar Pope, Jerrod Amir Shakir, and choreographic duo Alice Blumenfeld and Felise Bagley.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat, in collaboration with the Philadelphia-based Greenfield Basis, has chosen playwright Deepa Purohit because the winner of the 2024 Hermitage Greenfield Prize. The prize is awarded yearly, rotating among the many fields of theatre, music, and visible artwork. Purohit will obtain a six-week Hermitage Fellowship and a $35,000 fee to create a brand new work of theatre, which could have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2026. This 12 months, the Greenfield Basis and the Hermitage determined to extend the money element of the award from $30,000 to $35,000.

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