| NATIONAL DIRECTORS FELLOWSHIP SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:03 am EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| NATIONAL DIRECTORS FELLOWSHIP SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National New Play Network, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation jointly announce the selection of five directors from a nationwide pool of applicants for the 2018 National Directors Fellowship: Arpita Mukherjee Tatiana Pandiani Mei Ann Teo Hannah Wolf Jenna Worsham Says Wendy C. Goldberg, NDF Program Director, “I am excited to introduce these five directors as the latest recipients of the National Directors Fellowship. For the fourth year it was an incredibly competitive process, which is a reminder of the profound need for this program. There is nothing quite like NDF for directors who are focusing on new work, and I'm honored to be working with these artists.” In addition to Goldberg, the selection committee included: Nan Barnett (Executive Director, National New Play Network), Ann Filmer (Artistic Director, 16th St Theater), Jordana Fraider (National New Play Network), Gregg Henry (Director of Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival), Bradley King (Lighting Designer), Danielle King (Producer), Robert O’Hara (Playwright/Director), Laley Lippard (Director/NDF 2016 Fellow), David Roberts (Director, SDC Foundation), and Chay Yew (Artistic Director, Victory Gardens Theater). Fellowships begin at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in July 2018, with workshops and professional development opportunities throughout the year, culminating with a professional directing post within the wide-ranging network of National New Play Network Member Theaters. 2018 NDF Fellows: Arpita Mukherjee is the Artistic Director of Congressional Award-winning Hypokrit Theatre Company.Upcoming: Monsoon Wedding The Musical (Book Writer); Eh Dah? Questions for My Father at New York Theatre Workshop (Director), A Special Event on Climate Change with UNICEF and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Director); Festival Chair for Tamasha: A Festival for South Asian Performing Arts (New York); READINGS: The Cow Swallowed its Tail by Divya Mangwani at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Director), The Art of Gaman by Dipika Guha (Director). Recent: Monsoon Wedding the Musical at Berkeley Rep (Original Dramaturg, Associate Director), Queen at Ma-Yi Theater Company (Director), Appeasing Radhika at Baruch College (Director), An Evening of Indian Classics at Theater for the New City (Director), Eh Dah? Questions for My Father – winner of Best Book at NYMF (Creative Producer), Romeo and Juliet at the Access Theater (Director), My First Time – D.C. premiere (Director), How to Succeed as an Ethnically Ambiguous Actor Off-Broadway (Co-Writer/Creative Producer). Awards/Nominations: Best Book at New York Musical Festival, Nominated for Best Director at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Congressional Award for Diversity in the Arts - Hypokrit Theatre Company. Arpita will be part of the 2018 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Tatiana Pandiani is an Argentine born, NYC-based director and choreographer. Selected: Field, Awakening (Ford Studio at Signature Theatre), Azul, Otra Vez (BRIC), Eurydice & The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Atlantic Stage 2), Le Negrophilie (Kampala Theater Festival, Uganda), Appropriate & Assassins (Princeton Summer Theatre), NANAS (IATI), La Lupe (SEA), NORA (Lanesboro Arts), 1989 (Connelly). Upcoming: International Tour of La Negrophilie by Zakiya Markland to the Ubumuntu Arts Festival in Rwanda and the Frank Collymore Hall in Barbados. Tatiana is a Teaching Artist at the Atlantic Theatre Co., a NYTW 2050 Directing Fellow, and the Artistic Associate at Miami New Drama. MFA: Columbia. www.tatianapandiani.com Mei Ann Teo is an Asian American and Singaporean theatre/film maker who works at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice to shift culture towards justice and compassion. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, she creates across genres, including music theater, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theater. Recently profiled in American Theatre’s Role Call: Theatre Workers to Watch, Teo’s work has toured globally including Belgium's Festival de Liege, Edinburgh Fringe, M1 Singapore Fringe, Beijing Int. Festival, and the Shanghai Experimental Theatre Festival. She has directed and/or developed new work at OSF (Phil Killian Fellow 2015), the Goodman, the Public, BRT (Ground Floor), and was the first Asian American to direct at the National Black Theatre. At Theatre Above in Shanghai, she directed the world premiere of Dim Sum Warriors which will tour in China this summer. Teo was the featured director at the MIT’s Symposium Next Wave: The Future of Asian American Theatre, and has presents regularly at national conferences and frequently serves on national panels, including the NEA, Jerome, and ABOG. She has received grants from the CCI, ACC, NET, Hemera Foundation, Performance Project, and LMCC. Teo was the Chair of Drama/Resident Artist at Pacific Union College and serves as the Asst. Professor of Directing and Dramaturgy at Hampshire College. MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University. Hannah Wolf is a Los Angeles based director, dramaturg, and creative producer originally from Juneau Alaska. She makes “subversively shiny” work for the stage and explores new ways of making work in the rehearsal room. Recent work includes: TITLE LOADING (Fusebox Festival), The Bigot by William Glick, Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spigel, ENRON by Lucy Prebble (UT Austin), and The Sky Game by Kimberly Belflower (Peppercorn Theatre). She’s directed and developed new plays with Perseverance Theatre, Superhero Clubhouse, The Civilians, Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, Colt Coeur, and TerraNOVA Collective. She also curates the blog Ask A Director. SDC Associate, 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, 2014/15 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and 2013/2014 Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania) MFA: UT Austin. hannahjwolf.com Jenna Worsham is a New York-based Stage Director and Activist, with a focus on new work and radically inclusive, re-imagined classics. Recently directed Amy Herzog’s Belleville at Pasadena Playhouse, starring Anna Camp & Thomas Sadoski. The 2017 Drama League & Boris Sagal Directing Fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she co-conceived and directed Blue Ridge with playwright Abby Rosebrock. Broadway: The Parisian Woman by Beau Willimon, starring Uma Thurman (Associate Director); The Heidi Chronicles starring Elizabeth Moss (Associate Director); Picnic (SDC Fellow). Select NY & Regional: Agnes by Catya McMullen (59E59 Theaters/Lesser America); Wonder Boi by Jacob Jarrett (NYMF); Carolyn Pilsner by Kristen Slaney (EST/Youngblood); The Siblings Play by Ren Dara Santiago (Cherry Lane Mentor Project); Street Children by Pia Scala-Zankel (New Ohio Theatre, NY Times Critics’ Pick); Gun Country (Houses on the Moon Theater, A.R.T/New York); Have You Been There by Emily Zemba, and The First Immigrant by Martyna Majok (Williamstown); East Coast Curriculum by Lucy Thurber (Lee Strasberg Institute); Invincible Ones by Samantha Cooper (Signature Center/Columbia MFA Production); Balm in Gilead (Lee Strasberg Institute); Here to Be Seen (featuring a cast of formerly incarcerated women, commissioned by the Brooklyn District Attorney); Kids by Daniel Talbott (IRT); The Vagina Monologues for Taconic Prison and Cherry Lane; Spring Awakening (Lime Kiln Theater). She has directed several productions for Rattlestick Theater, as founding Artistic Director of The Middle Voice Theater Company. Associate Directing and Assisting: Pam MacKinnon, Evan Cabnet, Sam Gold, Kate Whoriskey, Lear deBessonet. Directed readings and workshops for The Public Theater, Yale Repertory, EST, The Lark, Playwrights Horizons, Labyrinth, Playmakers Rep, The Drama League, MCC, Primary Stages, The Actors Studio, among others. Awarded Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship (MTC) and two SDC Foundation Observerships. Proud member of the LILLY Awards Power Network, The Actors Studio Directors Unit, the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, the Williamstown Directing Corps, and an Affiliated Artist of New Georges. Co-founder of Creative Solutions, a residency program at SPACE on Ryder Farm for social justice organizations and human rights advocates. *** About the National Directors Fellowship (NDF): Founded in 2015, NDF is 18 months of practical, hands-on training, mentorship, and – most importantly – concludes with a professional directing opportunity. It connects directors to a vast network of playwrights and theaters, expands access to professional support services, and provides laboratory-like settings for observation and experimentation, equipping tomorrow’s stage directors with the skills, knowledge, and network to advance new play development and production around the country. Under the leadership of National Playwrights Conference Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg, Fellows begin in July of each year, observing and participating in the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Fellows then travel to the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop and Directing Intensive in August, led by NNPN and the KCACTF, and the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays in December. In January, they reconvene for an intense two-week Directing Symposium at the O’Neill, and the fellowship concludes with a professional directing opportunity at an NNPN Core Member theater. Funding for the National Directors Fellowship provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and key funding provided by: David Auburn, James Bundy, Blake Robison, Cincinnati Playhouse; Doug Hughes; Thomas Kail; Jack Tantlefff and Kevin Crosby, Paradigm Agency; Todd Haimes, Roundabout Theatre; Daryl Roth; Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn Theatricals; Molly Smith, Paula Vogel, and Martin Wilkins About the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: The O’Neill is the country’s preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the American theater. Founded in 1964, and named in honor of Eugene O’Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and America’s only playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Launchpad of the American theater, the O’Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and thousands more emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O’Neill have gone on to full production at theaters around the world. O’Neill programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, National Puppetry Conference, Cabaret & Performance Conference, and National Theater Institute – which offers six credit-earning undergraduate training programs. In addition, the O’Neill owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage as a museum open to the public. The O’Neill is the recipient of two Tony Awards and National Medal of Arts. www.theoneill.org |
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