Genres Theater

Off and Running

Nicole Opper

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

In her high school, Avery is known as the “black track star.” In her Brooklyn neighborhood she is the adopted daughter of white Jewish lesbians with an older Puerto-Rican brother and a younger Korean brother. At home she’s simply Avery. Now Avery is Read More

World Premiere Production of Yarns

No Dominion Theatre Co.

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Yarns is an original devised performance by No Dominion Theatre Co. that debuted in Jersey City in 2018. Yarns utilizes various found texts and burlesque as the framework to examine parallels between fiber arts and sex work to explore connections among what society and the media deem “women’s work." Read More

King of Nothing

No Exit Theatre Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

King of Nothing is a one-clown/one-sock puppet mangling of King Lear set on a mountain of trash lit entirely by the audience. It was originally workshopped as part of TrashFest/DarkFest in June 2022, and had its world premier in May 2023 at The Brick in association with No Exit Theatre Collective. Read More

1918: A House Divided

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Year Grant Awarded: 2007

1918: A House Divided is a musical drama set in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn against the background of the Great War, a conflict that divided the city, the country and the world. The conservative mood nationwide was in contrast to the mood among New Yorkers involved in the worlds of music and art. Read More

Walking from Rumania

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Year Grant Awarded: 2009

Walking from Rumania is based on the story of the fusgeyers, Jews who walked to freedom in 1899 when the Rumanian constitution disenfranchised Jews. Five women in a small village prepare to join a larger group, called “Esther’s Daughters,” that is leaving the nearest city in three months’ time. Read More

The Hebrew Lesson

Ouray, Esther

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A rite of return about the Right of Return, The Hebrew Lesson is an hour long one-woman play, written and performed by Esther Ouray, with live music by composers and musicians Tim O’Keefe, Maryam Yusefzadeh and Greg Herriges, and directed by Zaraawar Read More

Weather We will Weather the Weather?

Ouray, Esther

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Weather We will Weather the Weather is an outdoor 15 minute theater piece. It uses the accessible aesthetics of street theater to illuminate the intersection between homelessness and climate change. The majority of its ensemble have the lived experience of homelessness. Read More

The Oblate Cycle (2014)

Pioneers Go East Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

THE OBLATE CYCLE: Operas about cloistered nuns in Medieval and Renaissance society who, because of their gender, class, were Oblates but who through their intellect and artistic abilities, were able to transcend the convent as a space of confinement Read More

S 16 Luna Nera

Pioneers Go East Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A live installation inspired by the story of a boy who lives inside a mine that utilizes video & audio to create an interactive environment in which the audience walks through the space, direction guided by sound and live & projected action. Read More

FIRE!

Plan-B Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Wallace Thurman was a queer Black man in Salt Lake City at the turn of the previous century. He attended West High School, the University of Utah, and Calvary Baptist Church. He was also the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. And he has been erased from Utah history. Read More