Winners announced in New England playwright competition sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Artists Rep Announces New Artistic Directing Fellow
The inaugural fellow, Zi Alikhan, will collaborate with the companyâs artistic director while also heading up ARTâs new DNA: Oxygen initiative for BIPOC theater practitioners.
By
Fiona McCann
2/22/2021 at 10:30am
Zi Alikhan, Artists Rep s inaugural artistic directing fellow
Artists Rep has announced Zi Alikhan as the inaugural artistic directing fellow, a new position that will include directing the companyâs new DNA: Oxygen initiative. Alikhan, a 33-year-old director currently based in New York, took the new post this weekâa two-year fellowship (with an optional third year) intended to prepare recipients to lead arts organizations.
Theatre Now Announces National Musical Writers Group
The group is comprised of ten writing teams from eight states who will meet regularly to develop new musicals.by BWW News Desk
Theatre Now New York, a non-profit artists service organization and theatre company dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers, has established a new National Musical Writers Group which will bring together lyricists and composers from across the nation.
The group is comprised of ten writing teams from eight states who will meet regularly to develop new musicals by presenting their work, sharing their process, and offering and receiving support from one another and from Theatre Now New York.
Keen Company Continues 21st Season With DIGGING IN THE DARK
The FREE audio play will launch Friday February 26th at 7pm EST.by BWW News Desk
Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein today announced the World Premiere of a newly commissioned audio play by acclaimed playwright Pearl Cleage: Digging in the Dark takes listeners to a moonless night on a wooded estate outside Atlanta, where a woman awaits her scheming brother s arrival. He s coming to claim a valuable family heirloom, but she is determined to settle an old score before sunrise.
The FREE audio play will launch Friday February 26th at 7pm EST on your favorite podcasting apps like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and more: search Keen Company Hear/Now wherever you listen!
New York Stage and Film Commits $100,000 to Support Artists with NEXUS Initiative
New York Stage and Film, considered “one of the preeminent incubators for theater in the country,” has committed $100,000 to their new NEXUS Initiative that brings together 20 multi-hyphenate artists to explore the question “where does story exist at the intersection of stage and film?” Through this inaugural program, NYSAF will offer direct support to these artists – each participant receives $5,000 and will take part in a series of conversations focused on the needs of new and expanded forms of storytelling that resonate with our time.
In order to increase access to the program and respond to the ideas of a broad range of storytellers, these 20 participants were recommended by 14 leading artists of stage and film for their accomplishments in exploring new forms of storytelling. The leading artists selection committee includes Ayad Akhtar, César Alvarez, Luis Castro, Elsie Choi, Marcus Ga