Sundance Institute Announces Nine Projects Selected for 05 eatre Lab at Sundance Resort in Utah, July 6-6
23/04/2015
The Theatre Lab supports both emerging and established theatre-makers developing new work for the stage, with a focus on assuring that the playwright's deepest impulses and visions can be realized. For the three-week Lab, the Institute provides rehearsal space, dramaturgical support, and an acting company, creating an immersive environment where artists can experiment, see their work take shape and collaborate with creative advisors, dramaturgs and actors. The Lab culminates in a closed presentation of each project for Lab participants, followed by a collaborative feedback session.
More than 85% of Sundance-supported plays and musicals find production, including last year's Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak's A Gentlemans Guide to Love and Murder, as well as Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home, Lemon Andersen's ToasT, Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond's Iow@, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriate, Annie Bakers Circle Mirror Transformation, Denis OHare & Lisa Petersons An Iliad, Taylor Macs The Lilys Revenge, Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro, Adam Guettel & Craig Lucas The Light in the Piazza, Stews Passing Strange, Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis Stuck Elevator, Steven Sater & Duncan Sheiks Spring Awakening, Mois s Kaufmans The Laramie Project and Doug Wrights I Am My Own Wife.
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, In just the last two years, more than 30 projects supported by our Theatre Program have taken to stages nationwide. As Fun Home, Iow@ and ToasT open in New York this spring, we are proud to have played a role in supporting some of the most adventurous and interesting theatre work to hit the stage in recent years.
Himberg said, The joy of curating our 2015 Theatre Lab uncovered nine eclectic and dynamic new plays representing both emerging voices and those of established Sundance Institute alumni. Interestingly, many of this year's artists write with a bold fantastical vision inhabited by ghosts, Martians, time travel and wild physicality. What is as vital as the work itself is the artistic community that will gather this July in Utah to discover what connects and distinguishes theatrical storytelling. I am especially excited by the inclusion of artists from Morocco, Egypt as well as Palestinian theatre makers.
Layering in the Theatre Program's international work, which for 14 years was focused in East Africa, two artists are joining the Lab from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) as Observers as part of the Theatre Program's new initiative in the region: Sondos Shabayek (based in Cairo, Egypt) & Jaouad Essounani (based in Rabat, Morocco).
The Advisory Committee for the Lab, which met on March 27, included: Janice Paran, Labs Senior Program Associate, Mame Hunt, Program Associate, Liesl Tommy, Program Associate, Ralph Pena, Clint Ramos and Stephen Wadsworth. Literary Manager, Ignacia Delgado, oversaw the submission and evaluation process this year with support from Kailee Ayyar.
The projects selected for the 2015 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab are:
abominable
By Phillip Howze
Director TBA
Memory and myth collide in this tragicomic story of a family who embark on an affordable vacation days before the Husband must depart to war. Their good-natured adventure soon descends and as the countdown to deployment tests their principles and allegiances, who and what will get tossed into the void?
Annie Salem: An American Tale
Adapted from the novel by Mac Wellman
Written & directed by Rachel Chavkin
Composer and co-lyricist Heather Christian
Performer/Designer/Co-creator Andrew Schneider
Set in both the ruined rustbelt and ancient Martian plains, Annie Salem is part social commentary, part love story, part sci-fi yarn. A howling, surreal new musical adapted from experimental grandaddy Mac Wellmans novel, it tells the story of teenage misfit Jack who loves a girl named Annie. Annie Salem is also being developed at the Royal Court and Ars Nova's Uncharted Program.
awe/struck
by christopher oscar pe a
Director TBA
Denia arrives in Chicago, looking to create a place for herself in this unfamiliar land. Monique's never left Chicago but feels more and more like a stranger in her own home. A chance encounter between them transforms their lives forever in this new play about identity and perception. awe/struck is a commission of the Goodman Theatre.
Catch The Wall
By Gabrielle Reisman
Directed by Colette Robert
Choreography by Ro Tyler
After a New Orleans bounce MC dies, middle-schoolers Cleo and Justice plot a music video so their mentor's memory can live on. As the MC's ghost tangles with the girls' young teachers, students and educators push back against a button-down charter school climate, working to get their own stories heard.
Jonah
By Len Jenkin
Directed by Katherine Owens
Jonah is a contemporary re-telling of the story of the unfaithful servant. A bar band, a lounge singer, a biblical scholar, blind Mr. Bones, a storm at sea, three or four love stories, the evil city of Nineveh, a Dairy Queen, the reluctant prophet, and of course, the whale.
Sell/Buy/Date
By Sarah Jones
Director TBA
Sell/Buy/Date is a multi-character, one-person play inspired by stories of people, especially women and girls, directly impacted by sex-trafficking and commercial sexua
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