Genres Theater

“Living History Heritage Project” (2014)

Images of the Motherland-Interactive Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

“Living History Heritage Project” This program features the "live dramatic" productions "Muhammad Ali ibn Sayyid-292 United States Colored Troops" and "The Life & Times of Omar ibn Sayyid" plus the "Timbuktu African Artifacts Museum Exhibit". The ye Read More

Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book-Signing, and Other Things

Izumi, Julia

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

In this theatre/stand-up hybrid comedy, Murasaki Shikibu, author of one of the first novels ever written, comes to our contemporary world and holds a book-signing at a struggling bookstore. It seems she has much to say and many opinions to share on anything and everything -- except for her own book. Read More

The Buffalo Project, which resulted in a play called Buffalo Heights (2014)

Jake Lipman/Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Starting in late 2013, Producing Artistic Director Jake Lipman tapped 5 actors and playwright Adam Harrell to create a new thought-provoking comedy. Over several months, the company devised a new play, BUFFALO HEIGHTS, which ran May 2014 in NYC. Read More

Arriving in Asian America

Johnson, Christine Toy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Asian American Composers & Lyricists Project collaborated to collectively write a song cycle called "Arriving in Asian America", performed at Symphony Space in NYC on December 8, 2014 Read More

INTERNAL BLEEDING Workshop

Johnson, Christine Toy

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

An exploratory workshop and public reading of INTERNAL BLEEDING by Christine Toy Johnson. The lead character (written as both disabled and non-disabled) was cast with an actor with a disability, followed by a panel discussion about the process. Read More

EYE D

Johnson, Christine Toy

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A documentary theatre piece with music, reflecting issues of identity amongst multi-generational and multi-cultural women. Read More

11th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree of “Best” New Plays

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

For the first time, this renowned festival about the African-American experience includes full productions of cornerstone plays including: Juneteenth Blues Cabaret, Passing Ceremonies, Till, How Long Have I Been Dead Anyway?, and "Passing Ceremonies. Read More

2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays in NYC!

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, a 2010 AUDELCO award winner, presented seven one-acts about the black experience as a lunchtime reading series at the Workshop Theatre’s Jewel Theater in Midtown Manhattan, May 16-20, 2012. Read More

Walkkiing from Rumania

Kahn, Barbara

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

Walking from Rumania set in 1899, was inspired by women-only groups of “fusgeyers” (pedestrians) who walked from Rumania to escape discrimination. Read More

Unreachable Eden

Kahn, Barbara

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

“UNREACHABLE EDEN” is a stand-alone musical drama sequel to The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams. It follows the Polish Jewish lesbian from 1920’s New York to France before and during World War II. Music composed by Arthur Abrams. Lyrics by Barbara Kahn. Read More