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Sundance Institute Selects Acting Company, Artists-in-Residence and Creative Advisors for 2013 Theatre Lab at Sundance Resort, July 8-28 Posted Jul 8, 2013

New York, NY Sundance Institute today announced the acting company, artists-in-residence and creative advisors for the seven projects being developed at its 2013 Theatre Lab, July 8-28 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. Under the supervision of Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the Lab is the centerpiece of the Theatre Program's year-round work and is designed to support both emerging and established artists and to create a place where their original work can be effectively mentored and challenged free from commercial pressure.

Himberg said, The 2013 Theatre Lab Fellows have stories to tell, stories about African immigrants, and gay heroes, and Yiddish authors and Palestinian teachers: stories which throw new lenses on our diverse and complicated world. By providing the necessary resources and freedom for these artists to explore, each playwright both contributes to and benefits from an engaging and productive creative environment.

Participants include:

ACTING COMPANY

Uzo Aduba (Venice, Godspell), Maechi Aharanwa (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Tala Ashe, Brendan Averett, Jordan Baker (Suddenly Last Summer, Three Tall Women, Another Earth), David Cale (The History of Kisses, Palomino), Jackie Chung, Holley Fain (Harvey, Present Laughter), Ari Graynor (Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist, The Little Dog Laughed), Andy Grotelueschen, William Jackson Harper, Charlie Hofheimer (Mad Men), Joaquina Kalukango (Hurt Village), Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked, Leap of Faith), Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Glass Menagerie, Peter and The Starcatcher), Tom Nelis (SITI Company), Jenny OHara (Promises Promises, Mystic River), Kalani Queypo, Steven Rattazzi, Jeanine Serralles (Maple and Vine, Stunning), Maduka Steady (Amy's View), Hadi Tabbal (The Hour of Feeling, Circumstance)

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

These artists are the Theatre Program's first guests from Middle East/North Africa as part of its new commitment to artists from this region.

Dalia Basiouny (Egyptian writer, activist, translator) and Eyad Houssami (founder of Masrah Ensemble in Beirut, Lebanon)

KENNEDY CENTER JEAN KENNEDY SMITH AND PAULA VOGEL PLAYWRITING AWARD WINNER/THEATRE LAB OBSERVER

Andrew Hinderaker

CREATIVE ADVISORS

Lynn Nottage (Ruined; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark), Indhu Rubasingham (Artistic Director, Tricycle Theatre, London) and Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens)

DRAMATURGS

Janice Paran (Senior Program Associate, Labs), Elissa Adams (Children's Theatre Company) and Jocelyn Clarke (Playwright & Dramaturg)

EAST AFRICAN FELLOWS

These artists participated in the 2012 Theatre Stage Directors Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and at the Lab will divide their time between mentorship sessions with director Liesl Tommy and rehearsals of Lab projects.

Habiba Issa (Tanzania), Aida Mbowa (Uganda), Rogers Otieno (Kenya), Wesley Ruzibiza (Rwanda), Freddy Sabimbona (Burundi), Azeb Worku Sibane (Ethiopia) and Surafel Wondimu (Ethiopia)

STAGE MANAGEMENT

Amy Ehrenberg (Production Stage Manager), Kendra Arado (University of Utah), Stephanie Ellis (University of Utah), Jessica Mone Evans (CalArts), Brook Fowler (NYU Abu Dhabi), Juntian Evol Hong (CalArts), Casey Jackson (CalArts), Danielle Lauder (Northwestern University) and Carol A. Simon (CalArts)

As previously announced, the projects selected for the Theatre Lab are:

The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

By Adam Bock

Directed by Trip Cullman

Meet the Colby sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Five sisters, It girls slightly past their time, living in New York City, trying to figure out how to put up with each other. Family. What are you going to do?

The Fre

By Taylor Mac

Directed by Lisa Peterson

This project is part of Macs Kothornos Festival (four plays that will premiere separately but ultimately be performed in an all-day festival mirrored after the Greek Dionysia). It is an all-ages play written in the form of Old Comedy. It is the story of an intellectual aesthete, who is trapped inside a mud pit in the middle of a swamp, and his desperate attempt at escaping the swamps fatuous inhabitants who call themselves, the Fre. Commissioned by the Childrens Theater Company.

Really Really Really Really Really

By Jackie Sibblies Drury

Directed by Dan Rothenberg

Sibblies Drury's play centers on two women (the Mother and the Girlfriend of a conceptual artist who has vanished) leaving them to sort through his overwhelming body of work. It is a piece about artists, legacy and photography that asks about what we try to leave behind, what we actually leave behind, and how we deal with being left.

Sojourners

By Mfoniso Udofia

Director Jo Bonney

Abasiama Ekpeyoung came to America with high hopes for her arranged marriage and her future, intent on earning a degree and returning to Nigeria. But when her husband is seduced by America, she is forced to choose between the Nigerian or the American dream.

The Vagrant

By Mona Mansour

Directed by Mark Wing-Davey

England/London 1982. Part three of a trilogy. As Arab migr , Adham faces his last hurdle to secure a coveted permanent position at university, a wave of domestic terrorism hits his chosen city, while at the same time, the family hes left behind in the Middle East faces their own escalating horrors. The life Adham has created threatens to unravel, destroying the political and personal equilibrium hes spent 15 years perfecting. Commissioned by the Public Theater.

The Vengeance Project

By Paula Vogel

Directed by Rachel Taichman

Musical Direction by Oran Eldor

Vogel's latest play follows the circuitous path of Scholem Asch's play God of Vengeance from 1905 Warsaw to 1951 Stamford Conne

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