Theater: FY2003 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Organizational Capacity

Panelists

Access

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Hollywood, CA
$8,000
To support the marketing outreach initiative and the Youth Mentorship Program. The two programs will increase accessibility for underserved urban audiences.

Admiral Theatre Foundation
Bremerton, WA
$10,000
To support the presentation of a play in collaboration with Missoula Children's Theatre. A team of two actor/directors from the Missoula Children's Theatre will conduct a weeklong workshop to develop and present a full-scale children's production with cast members selected from the community.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$48,000
To support the presentation of free outdoor performances of a Shakespeare play. The production of Romeo and Juliet will be presented in state parks throughout the summer of 2003.

Association for the Development of Dramatic Arts, Inc. (Jean Cocteau Repertory)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support educational and outreach activities through the Classic Access Initiative. The initiative will include discount tickets and subsidy programs for seniors and college students, the upgrade of an online resource for classic theater and a tour of a theater piece.

Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley, CA
$6,000
To support the Family Theatre Initiative, a program that offers discounted admission for families in attendance at designated performances. Participants will receive pre-show materials and participate in post-performance activities.

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the expansion of New Voices at the Autry, a program targeted to the development and presentation of new plays by Native-American writers. Competitively selected writers work with professional directors and actors on new plays, and benefit from participation in workshops, readings and workshop productions.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Clown Care Unit program in which professional clown performers make bedside visits to perform for hospitalized children. The program works in close partnership with medical facilities in nine major U.S. cities.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$27,000
To support Theatre in the Classroom, a traveling educational theatre experience. The program tours adaptations of world folk literature or American history to elementary and middle schools, offering performances and residencies throughout Pennsylvania.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (consortium)
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
To support the creation and regional tour of a new work by David Gonzales, developed collaboratively with local community historical and cultural organizations and seniors in the Greater Cincinnati region. The resulting work will tell the stories of individuals from many cultures who found freedom in the Ohio River Valley.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the third project in a four-year Faith-Based Theater Cycle. In 10 Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith, members of Los Angeles' diverse Muslim community will participate with playwright Yussef El Guindi to create a new work about family, faith and access to the American Dream.

Developmental Services Center
Champaign, IL
$7,000
To support the production of an adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors." The Promting Theater will premiere its version of the classic play during its third annual Street Theater Festival.

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre (aka ECT)
Monterey Park, CA
$27,000
To support the 2003-2004 Beyond Borders Literacy Engagement PerformanceTour and associated workshops. Over 60 performances of culturally relevant adaptations of The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare will be presented in schools and community venues.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$8,000
To support a state-wide tour of a Shakespeare play. Artistic Director Richard Garner will direct the production that will be offered free of charge and will tour to high schools in rural areas in South and Central Georgia.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Boise, ID
$18,000
To support the Rural Outreach Project, a program that conducts tours of theater with related educational programming to K-12 students in four states. The program consists of two components, Shakespearience and the Idaho Theater for Youth.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support a partnership of African-American performance institutions. Cultural Odyssey, Afro Solo Theater Company and the San Francisco Black Film Festival will encourage self-empowerment through collective marketing, audience development, technical assistance and Web development.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the Peer Education Theatre Program to be conducted with adults and high school youth in rural and urban communities. Illusion Theater artists will train individuals in schools, communities and juvenile detention facilities to develop and perform plays centered on issues of importance to them and their communities.

L A Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$10,000
To support the Student Matinee program, Free Theatre program, and the Youth at Risk Internship program. These initiatives are designed to make theater accessible to children and adults in a rural and economically depressed region.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Based on the legend of La Llorona and the stories of the women of Skid Row in Los Angeles, the play will be written and performed in collaboration with neighborhood residents.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$6,000
To support workshops and performances for children and adolescents with severe disabilities. The Oaktree of Maryland, written by Artistic Director and playwright Joanne Margolius, will tour to five Maryland schools providing interactive workshops for students.

Make A Circus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a tour of Circus Days 2003 to communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program offers free performances of a circus in which audience members learn basic circus skills and incorporate them into the performance.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$27,000
To support a tour of two of the theater's repertory works for young people. Frankenstein's Children, by R.N. Sandburg with a sound score by Michael Keck, and More Stuff, by Christopher Gurr, will tour to schools, community centers and performing arts venues across the U.S.

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
To support a tour of free performances of two Shakespeare productions to communities throughout Montana, northern Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The tour will be targeted to communities in underserved, rural areas.

New Hampshire Mime Company (aka Pontine Movement Theatre)
Portsmouth, NH
$10,000
To support a tour of five works exploring and celebrating the history of New England to rural communities. Performances will take place in town halls, libraries, museums, schools and other community facilities.

New Old Time Chautauqua
Port Townsend, WA
$6,000
To support artist residencies and the presentation of theater works in rural communities throughout Idaho, Montana and Washington. Artist/teachers will collaborate with local arts and civic agencies in up to five locations to present community-participatory performance events.

Olney Theatre Corporation (aka Olney Theatre Center for the Arts)
Olney, MD
$20,000
To support Educational Connections, a multifaceted middle and high school educational theater program. Ongoing program activities are designed to make theater more widely available, involve diverse communities and reach new audiences.

Omaha Theater Company (aka Omaha Theater Company for Young People)
Omaha, NE
$20,000
To support a national tour of How Anansi Came to America by Frank Higgins. The 22-week tour will reach nearly 300,000 young people and their families in 35 states.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc. (aka Academy Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support the tour of the Academy Theatre For Youth's Artist-In-Schools Team. The ensemble will develop original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays to tour to schools and youth organizations throughout the Southeast.

Playwrights' Preview Productions (aka Urban Stages)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Urban Stages' Outreach Program. With the New York, Queens and Brooklyn Public Library Systems serving as venues and partners, Urban Stages tours new works by multiethnic authors to underserved communities and schools.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$45,000
To support the production of plays by Atlanta theater companies in the City Series. The Alliance Theater Company will create partnerships with, and present the works of, five mid-size Atlanta theater companies on its Hertz Stage.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor in downtown Los Angeles' Pershing Square as part of the company's annual summer festival. Performances will be free in order to increase access for both traditional and nontraditional theater audiences.

Shakespeare Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support free outdoor performances of Shakespeare's The Tempest in parks and public spaces throughout New York City. The production will target nontraditional audiences and communities surrounding the park venues.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the Teatro Accesso program. The company will tour theater works to underserved schools and Latino communities throughout the New York metropolitan area and the northeastern United States.

St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$35,000
To support outreach programs designed to provide access to theater for underserved communities, promote African-American culture among diverse populations and cultivate new audiences. Component activities will include touring performances, discussion series, student matinees, and short and long-term workshops in theater.

Stageworks, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$6,000
To support performances by the Rainbow Tribe of African American Greats and Inner Circle. Performances will serve at-risk youth at Title One middle schools and alternative secondary schools.

Stamford Theatre Works, Inc.
Stamford, CT
$8,000
To support a production of A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney, directed by Patricia Floyd. Funds will be used for marketing and publicity initiatives surrounding the theater's annual celebration of Black History Month.

STOP-GAP
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and Southern California tour of a new interactive play for middle and high school students. Friendly Fire will involve teens in a creative examination of the roles they play when they experience conflict with their peers, and will help them recognize and discourage bullying behavior.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$11,000
To support touring performances of a highly physical production of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan to audiences at prisons, shelters and centers serving low-income communities. The production was the first ever undertaken by the company, and will mark the company's 10th anniversary in the Twin Cities.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for proficient sign language interpreters. The program is designed to improve the skills of certified interpreters who have experience signing plays and musicals, and to maintain national standards of excellence in the field.

Touchstone (aka Touchstone Theatre)
Bethlehem, PA
$25,000
To support the Don Quijote Project. Touchstone Theatre will use Cervantes' classic tale Don Quijote as a catalyst to create new work and to bridge the gap between cultures, generations and classes in the neighborhoods of south Bethlehem.

VSA arts of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$7,000
To support a sign language interpreting program entitled Stagehands. VSA arts of Georgia will offer a discount to small and mid-sized theaters for the provision of its sign language interpreting service.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$40,000
To support expansion of the theater's education and outreach programs for intergenerational, rural and underserved audiences. Programming will include summer production internships, a program of training and onstage experience for young performers, school matinees and annual statewide teacher workshops.

Williamstown Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Williamstown, MA
$8,000
To support programs which serve and engage an economically and racially diverse community. The Williamstown Theatre Foundation's community programs include the Greylock Theatre Project, Kid's Night and Free Theatre.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the TheaterWorks project. This initiative offers artist residencies and workshops to low income working people at three New York City unions.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the Youth to Dare Tour. Youth to Dare is a month-long tour of up to nine plays written by middle and high school students.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support Word for Word's educational outreach activities. The project includes performances, workshops and artist residencies in local schools and libraries.

Creativity

15 HEAD, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
To support the development and creation of a design-based theatrical work. Sacred Space will be developed using 15 Head's unique, cross-disciplinary, collaborative rehearsal process.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by Craig Lucas. Set in Freud's Vienna in 1938, The Singing Forest, traces the intertwining lives of several psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and their extended families.

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$7,000
To support the world premiere production of Fascination/Borderland by playwright and novelist Jim Grimsley. This project will consist of the fusion of the two plays: Fascination, about society's obsession with serial murder, and The Borderland, which looks at domestic violence.

About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
To support continued development and performances of By the Hand of the Father. This interdisciplinary theater work combines spoken word, music and video in a non-linear format to dramatize the distinct 20th century journey of the Mexican-American father.

ACTCo (African Continuum Theatre Coalition, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the presentation of a new theater work. Wedding Dance by playwright Dominic Taylor will be presented as part of the Project Guidestar Residency Program.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000
To support the 27th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Artistic Director Marc Masterson will program this annual signature event and provide artistic oversight.

Adobe Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support the rehearsal and presentation of A Fish Story. The production is the result of three years of readings and workshops sponsored by Adobe.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$30,000
To support the production of a new play. The Venus de Milo is Armed by Kia Corthron will be presented as part of the Southern Writers' Project.

American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by Chay Yew. Night for Day will be the first piece to emerge from a series of commissions of Asian American artists intended to extend the theater's reach into the Bay Area's Asian-American community.

Apple Tree Theatre (Eileen Boevers Performing Arts Workshop)
Highland Park, IL
$15,000
To support a co-production of Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano. Directed by Henry Godinez, the play tells the story of two sisters under house arrest in Cuba and their struggle to live life fully.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$27,000
To support the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The program will include the world premiere production of Tooth and Claw by Michael Hollinger, and staged readings of three additional new plays.

Arena Stage
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the development and production of An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Molly Smith. Set in Washington, D.C., the play comments on the intersection of political and private life in a bold manner.

Arts International, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the presentation of works from the International Hispanic Theatre Festival in New York City. The Festival will include performances by theater companies from Spain and Latin America, as well as a comprehensive educational program.

Barter Theatre
Abingdon, VA
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Keep on The Sunny Side, by writer Douglas Pote, will feature the story and songs of the Carter Family.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
To support the production of a new theater work. The Continental Divide by David Edgar is a pair of new plays about the contradictions in the U.S. politics of the late 20th century.

BAPA (Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts)
Bethesda, MD
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work about King Arthur, focusing on adoption. British playwright Charles Way will be commissioned to write King Arthur, a work targeted to young audiences.

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a tour of The Jackie Wilson Story by the company's new touring ensemble. Developed by Artistic Director Jackie Taylor, the piece depicts the successes and tragedies in the life of musical legend Jackie Wilson.

Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$14,000
To support a large-scale outdoor collaborative theatrical production. Using traditional and experimental forms, Entre Vivos y Muertos, entre La Tierra y el Cielo will be created for the annual Day of the Dead activities in San Francisco's Mission District.

Brown University
Providence, RI
$16,000
To support the commission, development and workshop of a new play. Playwright Richard Wesley will write a new play entitled Big Ideas that examines the black middle-class in the post-Civil Rights era.

Carpetbag Theatre, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$8,000
To support the development of a new work entitled Six Ensemble Actors in Search of Their Story. Combining live actors, digital images, narrative and documentation collected during the creative process, the piece will reveal the art of ensemble development as the work is performed.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$42,000
To support a production of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart directed by Artistic Director Irene Lewis. This reinvestigation of Schiller's 1799 work will be offered as part of the 2002-03 subscription season.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$7,000
To support the development and production of a full-length play. Chicago Dramatists will present Only the Sound by resident playwright Jenny Laird, a participant in the play development program.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the development of a new program called Writing Our World (WOW!). Using stories and poems written by children and collected by Child's Play's global writing exchange, the WOW! Show will be presented to young audiences around the country.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support a play development laboratory entitled Threshold 2003. Funding will support a mainstage production of Korczak's Children by Jeffrey Hatcher and the development costs of Kia Corthron's play Snapshot, Silhouette.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$25,000
To support an artistic collaboration between playwright Barry Kornhauser and director Eric Johnson. Together they will collaborate on a new work that explores the power and possibilities of myth in the lives of today's young people.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support a production of the winner of the 2002-2003 Rosenthal New Play Prize. The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Carson Kreitzer will receive developmental workshops and readings in preparation for a full production.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the research and development of The Great Divide (working title). The middle phase of this three-year project will include the formation of the artistic team.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support Summerworks 2003. The eighth annual new works festival will include three fully produced works and four play readings.

Coconut Grove Playhouse State Theatre of Theatre of Florida
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the production of Blue and Once Removed. These works by Charles Randolph-Wright and Eduardo Machado feature African-American and Hispanic themes.

Contemporary American Theater Festival
Shepherdstown, WV
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Volunteers by playwright Craig Wright will be presented in the summer of 2003.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the Black AIDS: Black Faith Project. A collaboration with African-American clergy and African-Americans affected by HIV/AIDS will result in the creation and production of a new play.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the development and presentation of a new play and the creation, development and production of a second new work. Everyday Heroes will be presented in the fall of 2003, and a second commissioned play will be presented in the spring of 2004.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support professional development for artists. The Resident Artists and Resident Apprentices programs include mentoring, workshops, residencies in schools and teacher training.

Cuarzo Blanco, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the production of El Nuevo Macbeth, a new version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. This Spanish-language production will include text, dance and incidental live music.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Coyote Stories. Creators Linda Daugherty and Denise Chavez will explore a collection of Hispanic stories and folk characters using the coyote, or trickster, to take a dynamic look into Hispanic culture.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support the Big D Festival of the Unexpected, a two-week festival of new works. Activities in the festival will include workshops, full productions and staged readings of new works, as well as music, visual arts and youth programs.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$20,000
To support the national tour of two original theater works and residencies comprised of workshops and community activities. Dell'Arte Company will present Second Skin and Pirates to audiences in major urban areas, rural community centers, universities and to other ensemble-based theaters.

Detroit Repertory Company (Millan Theatre Company)
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a production and special marketing initiatives for a play about racism, compassion and brotherhood. John Henry Redwood's No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs will be directed by Ed Smith.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new play through the Voices from a Changing Israel series. The series, offering plays chronicling life in the Middle East, will feature the presentation of In the Dark by Motti Lerner during the 2003 season.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. The UnPossessed, an ensemble-created theater work, will be directed by Artistic Director Stacy Klein.

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Drama League Directors Project. The Directors Project is a national apprenticeship for young directors that will provide opportunities for new directors to work with professionals in off Broadway or regional theaters.

El Centro Su Teatro
Denver, CO
$25,000
To support the Touring Teatro Encuentro project. Su Teatro, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Xicanindio Artes will conduct workshop productions of El Sol Que Tu Eres/The Sun That You Are, by Anthony Garcia, in four cities.

Encore Theatre Company
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the commission, workshop and production of a new play by Adam Bock. The work, tentatively titled Thursday, will make use of an associative narrative structure to explore the question: How do repeated images create story?

Ensemble Studio Theatre
New York, NY
$12,000
To support an annual writers residency. The Next Step Fellowship program includes a weeklong retreat for five emerging writers, followed by public readings of their new full-length plays.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the theater's comprehensive education program. Scholarships and membership subsidies will be provided on a competitive basis to make the programs more accessible to emerging artists from underrepresented Asian-Pacific communities.

Famous Door
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support productions of The Cider House Rules: Parts I and II. These two epic plays will be performed by an ensemble company sequentially and then in rotating repertory at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater.

Flying Machine Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$7,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Utopians is an ensemble-created theater work.

Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
$8,000
To support the premiere production of P.J. Barry's Bad Axe. The theater previously presented a staged reading of the work as a part of their New Voices of the Wild West series.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the commission, research, development and workshop of Fifth Exotic, a new play by Ralph Pena. The project will include a research and documentation phase in Los Angeles, a second draft closed reading of the script, and a two-week workshop of the play's third draft.

Geva Theatre, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the development and production of a world premiere work by Jose Cruz Gonzalez. September Shoes will be directed by Michael John Garces.

GOH Productions (Seven Loaves, Inc.)
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald will be written and directed by Artistic Director Vit Horejs.

Goodman Theatre
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by August Wilson, directed by Marion McClinton. Gem of the Ocean is the next play in Wilson's ambitious project chronicling each decade of the 20th century.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support performances of the Sixth Toy Theater Festival and A Mammal's Notebook: The Erik Satie Cabaret. The three-week festival will include a Temporary Toy Theater Museum, family programs, a symposium and public workshops at the HERE Art Center.

Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the premiere production, touring and educational programming related to American Dreams: Lost and Found. Adapted by Richard Corley from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, American Dreams will be the third production in the company's American Century Project.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the Midwest regional premiere of Wintertime by Charles L. Mee. Associate Artistic Director John Miller-Stephany will direct the piece as part of the Guthrie Lab season.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support the production of a new adaptation of Sophocles' Electra. Directed by TCG Resident Director Jonathan Wilson, the production will incorporate a multi-ethnic cast, complementary public programs and many educational events.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Queen Nanny, Queen Nanny by playwright Ben Kreilkamp and company artist/director Elisha Whittington will include original music by Jamaican composer Devon Evans.

HERE (Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), a professional development program for mid career artists and collaborative artist teams. HARP serves artists through workshops, panel discussions, productions and career development services.

History Theatre, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$8,000
To support the commissioning and production of a stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pultizer Prize winning novel Main Street. Nationally recognized playwright Craig Wright will continue his relationship with the theater through his work on this production.

Historyonics Theatre Company
St. Louis, MO
$8,000
To support the creation of a play about the life of Arthur Ashe. Using only actual words from history, those words spoken by or about Ashe, playwright Caitlin McQuade will craft the script for Controlled Cool: The Arthur Ashe Story.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$23,000
To support the production of a play. Y. York's Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi will be directed by Artistic Director by Mark Lutwak and presented to Oahu children and families in the spring of 2003.

Horizon Theatre Company
Atlanta, GA
$12,000
To support PlayWorks, the new play development activities associated with the New South for the New Century Play Festival. The PlayWorks program will feature developmental workshops for playwrights culminating in public staged readings.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000
To support the professional premiere of a new work developed by Darko Tresnjak. The Blue Demon is based on fables and folk tales from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support the First Contact II initiative. The program will offer career development services for young emerging performance artists and the presentation of two weekends of performances.

Imago, The Theatre Mask Ensemble
Portland, OR
$12,000
To support the creation and production of a new original work. Squid will be developed by a team of performers, designers, fabricators and musicians in an experimental laboratory.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$45,000
To support the commissioning, research, development and initial workshops of a new play. In partnership with Conner Prairie, a living history museum, the theater will commission playwright James Still to explore the life of 19th century Indiana frontiersman William Conner.

INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a new play. Under the Mango Tree, by Carmen Rivera, will be produced on INTAR's mainstage theater in 2003.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Campo Santo)
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the development and production of a new play. True Cross is the third play in a triptych written specifically for Campo Santo by writer Denis Johnson.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the production of a play by William Shakespeare. Artistic Director Bartlett Sher will direct a production of Twelfth Night, a high Shakespearean comedy.

Irondale Ensemble Project
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support the development and production of a new theater piece. The History of Public Education, an ensemble-created piece directed by Artistic Director Jim Nelson, will be presented in 2003.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the New Works Festival and the Playwrights Under Progress (PUP) Fest. The festival will feature the full production of Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds by Elaine Romero, staged readings of new works and staged readings of new plays by teens.

La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla, CA
$35,000
To support the commission, development and production of a new adaptation of William Wycherly's The Country Wife. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will create a unique contemporary stage adaptation of the classic Restoration drama.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support production of a new adaptation of Antigone by Ellen Stewart with original music by Elizabeth Swados. The piece will be directed by Stewart and performed by the Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa's permanent resident acting and production company.

Long Wharf Theatre
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support the production of a play. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill will be directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and presented in the fall of 2002.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$22,000
To support the world premiere production of Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession. Created by Lookingglass ensemble members David Schwimmer and Joy Gregory, the adaptation will feature the company's unique blend of drama, music and movement.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development, workshop and production of three original commissioned works by emerging Asian American writers. Ma Yi Theatre will produce How To Be A Good Son by Julia Cho, Whorled by Edward Bok Lee and Infinitude by Sung Rno.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support the development and production of a new work. Zacharia Mosley's Neon Blues, by Neena Beber, will be presented in the spring of 2003.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,000
To support the development of new plays and musicals. The Play and Musical Development Program is a comprehensive program intended to serve artists at all stages of their careers.

Margolis Brown Theater Company (Adaptors, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support continued development, set redesign and presentation of American Safari. The project is an original work developed by company co-founders Kari Margolis and Tony Brown.

Mark Taper Forum
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the world premiere of a full-length play written and performed by Culture Clash. The Mark Taper Forum will present Chavez Ravine, a play about a Los Angeles family and the impact of city politics on its destiny.

MCC Theater (Manhattan Class Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the New York premiere production of Kate Robin's play Intrigue with Faye. This multimedia production will combine live action, recorded video and live videotaping and playback.

McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
$50,000
To support a production of a play by Anton Chekhov. Artistic Director Emily Mann will adapt and direct Uncle Vanya as the fifth play of the 2002-03 Mainstage Theater Series.

Mettawee Theatre Company
Salem, NY
$17,000
To support the development, production and touring performances of an original outdoor play. Artistic Director Ralph Lee will direct and design the work based on wisdom tales of the ancient Near East, incorporating masks and puppets with an original score.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a production of Helen Edmonson's adaptation of Mill on the Floss. The theater will expand the adaptation with a larger cast, more extensive creative elements and an original score.

Missouri Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the first major Midwest production of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard. Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Risa Brainin, will direct.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
To support the commission and production of original works by Minnesota and Michigan immigrant playwrights. The project is part of the company's New America initiative.

Nashville Children's Theatre
Nashville, TN
$12,000
To support the production of two plays through the New Horizons Initiative. A Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson, and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Kling, will be directed by Artistic Director Scot Copland and presented in the spring of 2003.

National Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the creation, production and touring of an original circus piece. The New Pickle Circus, the professional performing company of Circus Center, will create and perform a new holiday show.

Nevada Shakespeare Company
Reno, NV
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Based on Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile by Emma Sepulveda and Marjorie Agosin, an adaptation by Artistic Director Jeanmarie Simpson and associate artist L. Martina Young will be presented in the summer of 2003.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of three theater productions. The New Victory Theater will present Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish, Snow White and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the expansion of the new playwright development process. The program will increase actor and director compensation, along with a portion of artistic staff salaries and program expenses.

New Harmony Project, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$12,000
To support the development of new works for the theater. The New Harmony Project will host an 18 day conference for playwrights to develop new scripts through workshops, readings and rehearsals.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of Kate Moria Ryan's Cavedweller, adapted for the stage from the novel by Dorothy Allison. Developed at the theater through readings, workshops and residencies, the play will be directed by Michael Grief.

Northlight Theatre
Skokie, IL
$15,000
To support further script development and the world premiere production of a new play by Jenny Laird. Sky Girls will be directed by Artistic Director B.J. Jones.

Northwest Puppet Center (Carter Family Puppet Theater)
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support the creation of The Sneeze of Hercules. Based on an Italian comedy last performed in the 18th century, the work will incorporate marionettes, masked actors, live music and opera singers.

O'Neill Center
Waterford, CT
$40,000
To support the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the O'Neill Music Theater Conference. These annual events offer playwrights, composers and librettists opportunities to develop new work.

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Inc.
Edmond, OK
$8,000
To support the production of two Shakespearean plays. During the summer of 2003, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park will produce As You Like It and Othello.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Maestro!, by Artistic Director Richard Foreman, will be produced at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$55,000
To support two concurrent world premiere productions. Daughters of the Revolution and Mothers Against, by Tony Award-winning British playwright David Edgar, will be directed by Tony Taccone of Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$7,000
To support the creation, development and staged readings of up to four new plays through the Voices of Exile Series. The company will commission up to four local writers from the Hmong community to create a new play about the immigrant experience.

Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a multi-state tour of a new theater work for children. The company will tour a one-hour show for children developed and produced by Artistic Director Judith Martin.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support the regional premiere of a play by August Wilson. As part of its 25th anniversary season, Penumbra Theatre will produce and present King Hedley II.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$42,000
To support the second workshop and production of a new play by playwright Lillian Groag. Ms. Groag will be in residence at People's Light & Theatre Company to develop the script and direct the production of Midon.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$30,000
To support SPRING, an annual festival of emergent theatrical works. The project will include world premiere productions of plays by Kevin Kuhlke and Bridget Carpenter, and development of a work by Chay Yew.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support a production of August Wilson's King Hedley II, directed by Seret Scott. The theater will reengage the design team from its past production of Wilson's Seven Guitars for this project.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. The Lucia Joyce Cabaret is an ensemble-created piece directed by company member Deborah Stein.

Ping Chong and Company (Fiji Theater Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new multidisciplinary theatrical work. The Africa Project will explore European colonialism in Africa through dance, music, media and theater.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the 26th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival is a series of staged readings of new work by vanguard regional and national writers.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the New Theater Wing Developmental Program. The program is a series of artistic initiatives that supports both emerging and established writers in the development and presentation of new works.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support the development and production of three new works through the NewStage Directions initative. The Playwrights' Center and three local theater companies will collaborate to fully develop and produce a new theater work by a Playwrights' Center member.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support a playwright residency and the development and production of a new play. Itamar Moses will be in residence at Portland Center Stage to develop Outrage, a satire about personal beliefs in contemporary society.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support the development, staged readings, workshops and production of a new theatrical work. Women And The Sea is comprised of two dramatic pieces that capture the life on the ocean in Maine.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support the creation of two new original works through the Citystage 2003 project. The Citystage initiative brings the works of Pregones Theater to associate venues in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan.

Primary Stages Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the commissions of three works to debut in the theater's new performance space. Playwrights Mac Wellman, Edwin Sanchez and Julia Jordan will be commissioned and provided with developmental support for their work.

PRTT (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Playwrights Unit. The company will commission up to 14 emerging Latino playwrights to create new works, resulting in staged readings and one full production.

Puppet Co.
Glen Echo, MD
$8,000
To support the creation and production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. This will be the first repertory piece to premiere in The Puppet Co.'s new facility in Glen Echo Park, Md.

Puppet Showplace, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$8,000
To support two artistic initiatives. The Puppets at Night series will present productions for adults including four bi-monthly PuppetSLAMS, and the Puppets at Dorchester series will bring puppetry to underserved youth.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$22,000
To support the creation and presentation of a public outdoor spectacle production. Artistic Director Jim Lasko will collaborate with composer/musician Mark Messing and scenic artist Stephanie Nelson to create a theatrical event entitled Nina.

Research Foundation of State University of New York
(on behalf of Performing Arts Center, Purchase College)
$25,000
To support the presentation of four theater ensembles in the Theater Masterpieces series. The series will present the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Theatre de la Jeune Lune of Minneapolis, Aquila Theatre Company of London and New York, and 4D Art of Quebec.

Riverside Repertory Theatre
Albuquerque, NM
$15,000
To support a theater festival. The Revolutions International Theatre Festival will bring international and national companies to perform and provide training for students and artists in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA
$15,000
To support a Shakespeare theater festival. The Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival will present A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth in an outdoor theater, as well as offer educational programming.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$25,000
To support the East Coast premiere production of When Grace Comes In by Heather McDonald. Associate Artist Jane Beard collaborated with McDonald during the development phases of the script, and will play the principal role in the production.

Salt Lake Acting Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$6,000
To support the development and workshops of a new play by J.T. Rogers. Rogers will develop a script through a workshop process culminating in a free, public reading.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$55,000
To support components of the theater's The Future of the Border/El Futuro de la Frontera project. Playwrights Bernardo Solano and Luis Valdez will work in residency, culminating in the world premiere of Solano's new play Nuestro Pueblo and a workshop of Valdez' Earthquake Sun.

San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
$25,000
To support the final development and world premiere production of a new play by Philip Kan Gotanda. Eric Simonson will direct the premiere of The Wind Cries Mary with Gotanda in residence.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Go Dog Go, adapted by playwright and director Steven Dietz and writer/choreographer Allison Gregory, will feature music by Michael Koener.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the production of a classic play. Artistic Director Sharon Ott will direct a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw.

Seven Stages, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the production of a contemporary play. Legendary theater artist Joseph Chaikin will direct Broken Glass by Arthur Miller.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$55,000
To support the production of a classic play. Artistic Director Michael Khan will direct the Washington, D.C. premiere of The Silent Woman by Ben Johnson.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and production of a theater work adapted from a literary classic. Based on Homer's Odyssey, Theodora Skipitares will create Odyssey, a fusion between a 4,000 year-old form of shadow puppetry, hands-on animation and music.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Artistic Director Daniel Aukin will direct Suitcase by Melissa James Gibson.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$30,000
To support the world premiere production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. This play was originally co-commissioned with Center Stage in Baltimore, and its premiere will be a co-production.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support a three-day directing symposium for the professional development of directors and choreographers. The symposium will focus on methods of creation, collaboration and presentation of new plays in the new millennium.

Studio Arena Theatre
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new theater work. The Mythology of Bowling will be written by Carter Lewis and directed by Artistic Director Gavin Cameron Webb.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$18,000
To support the Sundance Theatre Laboratory, a professional development program for theater artists. The program is dedicated to championing an eclectic and diverse group of artists representing the full breadth of the American theatrical landscape.

Syracuse Stage
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
To support the commission, development and production of a new play. Playwright Tina Howe will write a new play specifically for the Tony Award-winning actress Elizabeth Franz.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a play adapted from a literary classic. Target Margin Theater will translate and produce for the stage both parts of Goethe's Faust.

Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
$12,000
To support the creation and tour of a play for the puppet stage. Author Eric Kimmel and African American musician storyteller Nyewusi Askari will collaborate with Artistic Director Nancy Aldrich to develop a production entitled The Anansi Stories.

Teatro Avante, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$45,000
To support the 18th International Hispanic Theatre Festival. The festival presents multi-lingual theater productions of contemporary and classical works by acclaimed international companies from Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Teatro de la Luna - The Moon Theater
Washington, DC
$12,000
To support the Sixth International Festival of Hispanic Theater. In partnership with Arlington County, the festival will offer Spanish-language theater with interpretation into English, focusing on emerging trends in Latin American theater.

Teatro Nuero
Coral Gables, FL
$12,000
To support the production of a new play. Playwright Michael McKeever has committed to write a new play entitled A Town Like Irving about prejudice and civil liberties in American culture.

Teatro Vision de San Jose
San Jose, CA
$15,000
To support the final development and production of a new play. A Song for Miranda, by Latino playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez, is a commission in a new works initiative entitled the Codices Project.

The Present Company
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. FringeNYC is a celebration of the work of emerging theater companies and performing artists, held annually on the historic Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Theater By The Blind Corporation
New York, NY
$13,000
To support programs for the professional development of blind and visually impaired theater artists. Activities include an elaborate reading service by sighted actors; conversion of scripts to accessible formats including Braille, large print and cassette; and public staged reading opportunities.

Theater for the New City Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support two world-premiere productions by writers in the Emerging Playwrights Program. The Golden Bear by Laurel Hessing and Let the Rhythm Hit'Em by Andre Brown will be developed and produced with the playwrights involved in the rehearsal and production process.

Theater Mu Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the world premiere production of Falling Flowers, an original theater work developed by Theater Mu and playwright Jeany Park. Jennifer Wear will direct the production for performances at Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis, MN
$28,000
To support the production of a new translation/adaptation of a work by Carlo Goldoni. One of the Last Nights of the Carnival will be collaboratively developed by the theater's ensemble of artists under the direction of Artistic Director Vincent Gracieux.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support to production of two plays. The company will present The General from America by playwright and director Richard Nelson, and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. Noh Frankenstein will be adapted by playwright and director Erik Ehn and performed by the company's ensemble members in the Japanese Noh tradition.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Trinity Repertory Company will produce The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$25,000
To support the premiere production of a new play. The Legacy Codes by Cherylene Lee will be produced at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Calif.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the world premiere of a new play. Loving Lucy, by playwright Phillip blue owl Hooser, is part of a trilogy of works presented by the Unicorn Theater about the challenges faced by female performers.

Unidentified Moving Objects, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Fatal Peril by playwright Adam Rapp will be developed in collaboration with director and ensemble member Ruth Zapora, and will be presented in the fall of 2003.

Unity Theatre Ensemble
Florissant, MO
$7,000
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new play. A Day Late and A Dollar Short will be adapted and directed by Artistic Director Ralph E. Green and will be presented during the spring of 2003.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$13,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Unspoken Prayers, by Claudia Allen, will be directed by Artistic Director Dennis Zacek.

Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation
Salinas, CA
$13,000
To support the development and production of an adaptation of Victor Villasenor's epic novel Rain of Gold. The theater will adapt the novel and develop the script through readings and presentations in preparation for its full production.

Wilma Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a production of a play adapted from a classic work. Big Love, by Charles L. Mee, is a modern adaptation of Aeschylus's The Suppliant Women, a Greek tragedy thought by some to be the earliest surviving play of the Western world.

Women's Project & Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the professional development activities of women theater artists through the Developmental Theatre Program. Program activities will include the Director's Forum, Playwrights Lab, First Looks rehearsed readings and Work-in-Progress workshops.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$33,000
To support a production of The Day Room by novelist and playwright Don DeLillo. The play will be directed by Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz and will feature long-time company members who appeared in the theater's 1989 production of the same play.

Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
To support the creation and presentation of Poor Theater, a production based on the work of the late Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. Contributors to the project will include Wooster Group members Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth LeCompte, Kate Valk and a circle of project associates.

Young Playwrights Festival
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival 2003. The annual festival is designed to train young playwrights, serve emerging playwrights with development opportunities and expose audiences to new plays.

Z Space Studio (on behalf of Afro Solo Theatre Co.)
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support the commission and production of a new hip-hop theater piece. Danny Hoch will direct Flow, a solo performance piece in the form of hip-hop rhymes with choreography by Robert Moses to be produced by the Afro Solo Company.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$13,000
To support the final development and production of a new play. The Jonestown Project, by playwright Leigh Fondakowski, will premiere in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana.

Heritage/Preservation

Grupo de Artistas Latinamericanos (aka GALA, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support a production of Valor, Agravio, y Mujer by Ana Caro. The theater will commission an original translation and will offer free simultaneous English interpretation at all shows.

International Arts Relations, Inc. (aka INTAR) (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the New York premiere of The Old Matador by Latina playwright Milcha Sanchez-Scott. In a consortium with The Women's Project and Productions, INTAR will co-produce the play to be staged at the newly renovated Women's Project Theater in New York.

Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
Presentation of an adaptation of Peter Quinn's novel Banished Children of Eve. Based on Peter Quinn's historical novel and adapted by producing director Ciaran O'Rielly, the piece will depict the experiences of Irish immigrants in New York City during the Civil War.

Michael Chekhov Association, Inc.
West Village Station, NY
$30,000
To support the production and distribution of six videos on the Michael Chekhov technique. The videos will serve as a resource for teachers, students, professional actors and directors, and libraries.

New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

Regents of the University of California at San Diego (on behalf of TheaterForum)
La Jolla, CA
$8,000
To support the publication and distribution of two issues of TheatreForum, an international journal of performance. TheatreForum documents contemporary theater for current and future students, scholars and theater practitioners.

UNIMA-USA
Atlanta, GA
$12,000
To support the publication and distribution of Puppetry International Magazine and the Directory of Touring Companies & Professional Puppetry Services, and the expansion of Web site services. UNIMA-U.S.A.'s publications document puppet theater works and provide technical assistance to puppet artists.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$10,000
To support the apprenticeship program. Twenty young artists will be mentored as they move past the internship stage to professional actor and artist/teachers.

Organizational Capacity

A.R.T./New York (Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc.)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Nancy Quinn Fund and the Theatre Leadership Institute technical assistance programs. The two initiatives provide management-related technical assistance to small and mid-size theater companies nationally.

Assitej-USA, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$20,000
To support the One Theatre World 2003 Symposium. The national event held in Philadelphia, PA in April of 2003, will encourage critical dialogue in the development of professional theatre for young audiences.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the Member Services Expansion Project. Developed with input from more than 130 member theaters, this project will maximize the League's marketing and support services by retooling its Web site, publication and conference.

TCG (Theatre Communications Group, Inc.)
New York, NY
$140,000
To support the 14th Biennial National Conference. The largest national gathering of not-for-profit theater professionals, this conference will celebrate the achievements of the field and explore how theater is changing and evolving today.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the development and pilot phase of the Mentoring Initiative. In order to expand the quality and visibility of the Bay Area theater community, this project will craft mentoring partnerships between emerging and established theater companies.

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