Grantees All Years
The Essential Straight & Narrow
The Mad Ones
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A lo-fi ode to the Kodachrome 1970s, rock and roll antics, and the mystical American Southwest: The Essential Straight & Narrow recalls a roadside layover in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, where passing the time becomes reliving the past. Read More
- Email: themadonesemail@gmail.com
- Website: http://themadones.org/
Eco-Heroism
The MY HERO Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
MY HERO created a Celebrate ECO-Heroism DVD of inspiring short films about environmental heroes to be used as a companion to the ECO-Heroism Guide PDF. The DVD’s were duplicated and distributed to teachers at education conferences around the world. Read More
- Email: myhero@myheroproject.org
- Website: http://myhero.com
BAUBO
The Neo-Political Cowgirls
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
BAUBO, an outdoor, under-the-stars dance theater story reimagined the myth of Persephone & Demeter, adding in the oft-forgotten goddess of female laughter and raunch, Baubo. Set across the gorgeous hills of Montauk County Park, BAUBO plays high in the sky on a 20-foot aerial rig. Read More
- Email: npcowgirls@gmail.com
- Website: www.npcowgirls.org
Orville and Wilbur Did It! by David Zellnik
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The world premiere of ORVILLE AND WILBUR DID IT! by David Zellnik (Yank!) follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America. June 13- July 20, 201 Read More
- Email: info@thenewcolony.org
- Website: http://thenewcolony.org
Orville and Wilbur Did It! (2014)
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Orville and Wilbur Did It! follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, ecstasies, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America – as they perform a children’s musical about the Wright Broth Read More
- Email: morganmcnaught@gmail.com
- Website: http://thenewcolony.org/
Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek, Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
The New Stage Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek's cerebral work examines the silence around an actual event of mind-boggling evil. Read More
- Email: info@newstagetheatre.org
- Website: www.newstagetheatre.org
Tenderness
The Performance Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
First Generation Ensemble toured Tenderness, a multi-lingual, physical theater piece that underscores the connections between racism, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, hyper-masculinity, violence and the power of human connection. Read More
- Email: info@performanceproject.org
- Website: https://performanceproject.org
Shmuel Polonski CD of 1931 Soviet Yiddish Songbook Far yugnt/For Youth
The Polonski Project/Eric A. Gordon & Yale Strom
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A CD produced by historian Eric A Gordon & musician Yale Strom, featuring vocalists Michael Alpert, Judy Bressler, Jack Yankl Falk, Daniel Kahn, Vira Lozinsky, Anthony Russell, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Sholem Singers Read More
- Email: ericarthur@aol.com
The Washington Spectator (2014)
The Public Concern Foundation, Hamilton Fish, President
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Independent, nonprofit, and reader-supported, the monthly Washington Spectator reports from the ground on the excesses of the public and private sectors that distort our politics and undermine democracy. Read More
- Email: hfish@washingtonspectator.org
- Website: http://washingtonspectator.org/
The Rights of Spring: The Persistence of Winter (2014)
The Puppeteers Cooperative
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A giant puppet pageant with adults and youth groups; played out-of-doors, and beginning with a parade. Read More
- Email: puppetco@puppetco-op.org
- Website: http://puppetco-op.org/
