Seven Artists Selected for 2013 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation Radha Blank | Fernanda Coppel | Joy Harjo | Michael John LaChiusa Justin Levine | Matthew Paul Olmos | Stephen Wadsworth
Posted Nov 5, 2012
New York, NY Sundance Institute today announced the seven artists selected for its 2013 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, February 4-22, 2013. The annual writing colony at the 20,000-acre working cattle ranch outside of Sheridan, Wyo. provides a supportive environment for artists to create new work and receive guidance and reactions to it at an early stage. Under the supervision of Philip Himberg, Artistic Director of the Theatre Program, and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the Playwrights Retreat is made possible through the generosity of Ucross Foundation.
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, Project support at a very early stage for both emerging and established artists is a cornerstone of Sundance Institute's labs and programs. For the Playwrights Retreat, we are grateful to Ucross Foundation for lending their exceptional facility for our Fellows to write and work with advisors in an environment of peer mentorship, professional growth and unpressured creativity.
Himberg said, Our Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation is the only program of its kind specifically dedicated to the germinative stage of a play's life. It provides writers and composers the opportunity needed to focus on and refine the earliest vision of a new work, within the supportive community of theatrical artist peers.
Notable artists and projects supported through the Playwrights Retreat program include A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman (Hartford Stage Company and La Jolla Playhouse), Song for the Disappeared by Tanya Saracho (Goodman Theater, Chicago), and ToasT by Lemon Anderson (Under The Radar).
The artists selected for the 2013 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation are:
Radha Blank
Ms. Blank is a writer for stage and screen. Last fall, the World Premiere of her play SEED received eight 2012 Audelco nominations including Best Playwright. Plays include HappyFlowerNail, American Schemes, SEED, nannyland, Casket Sharp and Kenya, her first solo show. Awards and Fellowships include New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship, Nickelodeons Writers Fellowship, The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group Fellowship, The National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Award and the 2011 Helen Merrill Award Emerging Playwright Award. For 2012-13, commissions include 32 To Base, a play about immigrant cabbies in the South Bronx for EPIC Theater Ensembles Sunshine Series as well as Rice and Chicken Parts, a play about restaurant workers. Her latest play, Confections, explores how baking masks a mother and daughter's dark secret in a small North Carolina town and is part of a trilogy based on the United States eugenicists movement. Her solo show, HappyFlowerNail, about a Korean-owned nail salon in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, will be presented in The Public Theater's 2013 New Works Now Festival.
Fernanda Coppel
Fernanda's plays include: Chimichangas and Zoloft (Atlantic Theater Company World Premiere), Pussy, The Leak, That Douche Bags Play, Sinaloa Cowboy, Emma Zapata, and No Homo. Fernandas plays have been developed at Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Pregones Theater, The Flea,INTAR Theatre, The Juilliard School, The Lark Development Center, the Old Vic (London), and Naked Angels. Fernanda is a member of the MCC Playwrights' Coalition and was a member of the Old Vics US/UK TS Eliot Exchange Program in 2010. Her work has won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater, the 2012 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and the 2012 Helen Merrill Award. She was a three-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School andwas amember of INTAR Theatres Maria Irene Fornes Playwrights Lab. Fernanda received her MFA from New York University.
Joy Harjo
Joy was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She has won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year. She performs solo as well as with her band, The Arrow Dynamics.She has appeared on HBOs Def Poetry Jam. Most recently she performed We Were There When Jazz Was Invented at the Chan Centre at UBC in Vancouver, BC and appeared at the San Miguel Writer's Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her one-woman show,Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, which features guitarist Larry Mitchell, premiered in Los Angeles in 2009. Her seven books of poetry include such titles as How We Became Human- New and Selected Poems and She Had Some Horses.Her awards include the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She was recently awarded 2011 Artist of the Year from the Mvskoke Women's Leadership Initiative and a Rasmuson US Artists Fellowship. She is a founding board member and treasurer of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Soul Talk, Song Language, Conversations with Joy Harjo was recently released from Wesleyan University Press. Crazy Brave, a memoir is her newest publication from W.W. Norton.
Michael John LaChiusa
The Public: See What I Wanna See, The Petrified Prince, First Lady Suite. His other musicals include: Queen of the Mist (2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical); Los Otros, (lyrics and book by Ellen Fitzhugh); Bernarda Alba; The Highest Yellow (book by John Strand); Little Fish; The Wild Party (To
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Seven Artists Selected for 2013 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation Radha Blank | Fernanda Coppel | Joy Harjo | Michael John LaChiusa Justin Levine | Matthew Paul Olmos | Stephen Wadsworth
