New York, NY - Sundance Institute today announced the acting company, dramaturgs and creative advisors participating in its pilot Theatre Lab in the MENA region, including Sandra Oh, Hoon Lee, Deanna Dunagan, Hala Omran and Raeda Taha. The Lab, held in Morocco next month, is part of the Institute's international cultural exchange programs for independent artists and will kick off a new, multi-year commitment to support artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). For the Lab, the Institute will provide promising, fresh voices from the U.S. and MENA region with a rigorous artistic retreat and new opportunities for cross-cultural discovery, artistic reflection and creative experimentation.
Under the supervision of Sundance Institute Theatre Program Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma and led by Middle East/North Africa Manager Jumana Al-Yasiri, the annual Theatre Lab, normally held in Utah, will be in Morocco this year. For over the past three decades the Lab has provided critical support and development to productions, including the two most recent Tony Award winners for Best Musical, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home and Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak's A Gentlemans Guide to Love and Murder, as well as titles such as ToasT, Appropriate, Circle Mirror Transformation, An Iliad, The Lilys Revenge, The Good Negro, The Light in the Piazza, Passing Strange, Stuck Elevator, Spring Awakening, Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife, and Amer Hlehel's TAHA.
The Lab supports a diverse group of emerging theatre-makers developing new work for the stage, with a focus on creative exploration and original storytelling. For the three-week Lab, the Institute provides key support and resources to Fellows, including artistic and professional guidance from creative advisors, dramaturgs and actors from the U.S. and MENA region, time and space in an immersive environment where artists can see their work take shape and collaborate with their international peers to build supportive artist relationships. The Lab culminates in a closed presentation of each project for Lab participants, followed by a collaborative feedback session. For the Lab, the Institute will collaborate with Royal Air Maroc, Dar al-Mam n, Sahara Experiences and the Morocco National Tourist Office.
This year's participants are from Australia, Belgium, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States, and bring experience from diverse creative backgrounds.
Acting Company
Helen Al-Janabi, Marinda Anderson, Racha Baroud, Zouheir Ait Benjeddi, Deanna Dunagan (August: Osage County), Mohamed Fergani, Peter Friedman (The Nether), Ron Cephas Jones, Francis Jue, Hoon Lee (The King and I), Yara Bou Nassar, Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy), Hala Omran (La Porte du soleil), Christine Osuala, Perle Palombe, Reynaldo Piniella, Will Pullen, Raeda Taha (Where can I find someone like you, Ali?), Sharon Washington (Dot), EJ Zimmerman
Creative Advisors
Moukhtar Kocache, Lynn Nottage (Ruined), Indhu Rubasingham (Tricycle Theatre)
Dramaturgs
Abdullah Al-Kafri (Ettijahat), Janice Paran, Chryst le Khodor, Christian Parker (Columbia University)
Artists-In-Residence
Deborah Asiimwe, Hamza Boulaiz (with Said Harrassi), Paola L zaro
Production and Stage Management
Cyd Cahill, Nadia Elboubkri, Adil El Filali (Production Manager), Jad Hakawati, Melanie J. Lisby, Ana Verde
As previously announced, the projects selected for the 2016 Theatre Lab in MENA are:
Crave
by Sarah Kane
Adapted & directed by Marion L crivain
Translated by Zakaria Alilech
Narrated using video clips, soundscapes and a documentary made with residents of Marrakech, this Moroccan adaptation of Sarah Kane's Crave, brings together four actors around an endless dinner where the poetry of the moment mixes with the reality of the city.
L crivain is a French actress and director based in Marrakech, where she's pursuing different artistic collaborations in theatre and film. Marion has directed works by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Peter Handke, William Shakespeare, Georges Feydeau and Didier-George Gabily. As an actress, she has trained under the direction of Val rie Donzelli, Mia Hansen-L ve, Philippe Minyana, Frederic Maragnani and Elisabeth H lzle.
Alilech is a translator from Morocco. His experience as a translator includes a Moroccan adaptation of West Side Story, based on the city of Tangiers where he lives. He is a translator, dramaturg and actor on the developing production, Crave.
Eve's Song
By Patricia Ione Lloyd
Director Timothy Douglas
We're all born with our very own song, but in a world that constantly has to be reminded that black lives matter, some songs are silenced too soon. A middle-class African-American family is battered by the daily onslaught of subtle and not-so-subtle indignities. The fierce bonds of love that hold them together start to fray, as each one gets pushed closer and closer to their breaking point.
Lloyd is a current New York Theater Workshop fellow, alumni of the 2015 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, resident playwright at the University of Mumbai, Brown University (through the Africana Studies Department) and the International Theatre & Literacy Project in Tanzania. Her work has been developed by The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Labyrinth Theater, Red Bull Theatre, Dixon Place, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, New York LGBT Center and the Fire This Time Festival. She is the recipient of the New Professional Theatre's Emerging Playwright Award and best play award from the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival.
Happy New Fear
Written & Performed by Rima Najdi
Audio-visual design by Ana Nieves Moya
Sound design by Kathy Alberici
Direct
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