| New York Theatre Workshop Announces February & March Programming | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 01:24 pm EST 02/12/21 | |
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| NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP ANNOUNCES FEBRUARY & MARCH PROGRAMMING HILTON ALS PRESENTS A NEW PROJECT by Artistic Instigator & PULITZER PRIZE WINNER HILTON ALS FEATURING JESSICA ALMASY AND Mikéah Ernest Jennings AVAILABLE MARCH 2021 A READING OF FOR WHICH IT STANDS BY LEE EDWARD COLSTON II DIRECTED BY BIANCA LAVERNE JONES FEATURING Ashley ayanna, Mikayla Bartholomew, Stephanie Berry, Christopher Cassarino, Katherine George, Bria Samoné Henderson, Deanna Reed-Foster, Carolyn M. Smith ANDAndrea Syglowski to benefit a new way of life reentry project, rehabilitation through the arts ANDwomen's prison association AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 19-22, 2021 AND INTRODUCING OPEN OFFICE HOURS A NEW PILOT PROGRAM FOR NYTW'S ARTISTIC STAFF TO CONNECT WITH ARTISTS PLUS: The Power of Proverbs & the Tradition of Oral Storytelling A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH Dael Orlandersmith, Martha Redbone AND Jillian Walker, MODERATED BY BRENNIE TELLU FEBRUARY 17, 2021 at 5PM EST No Passing Here: FOUR Latinx Artists on Theatre and Race/EthnicitY A FIRESIDE CHAT with VIRGINIA grise, lindsay rico, andrew g. rodriguez and tiffany small MODERATED BY VICTOR I. CAZARES FEBRUARY 24, 2021 at 5PM EST A VIRTUAL OPEN MIC NIGHT ONE SONG GLORY PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH POETIC THEATER PRODUCTIONS FEBRUARY 25, 2021 at 7PM EST AND EXPERIMENTS IN DIGITAL THEATRE AN ONLINE MASTERCLASS PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEATER MITU MARCH 26, 2021 at 3PM EDT FREE RSVP AT NYTW.ORG (February 10, 2021 - New York, NY) New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today programming for the months of February & March, including Hilton Als Presents by Artistic Instigator & Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als; a benefit reading of For Which It Stands by Lee Edward Colston II; and Open Office Hours, a new NYTW pilot program; as well as free Virtual Programming events. HILTON ALS PRESENTS By Hilton Als March 2021 Hilton Als is, and has been, an invaluable contributor to American cultural life for decades. Join this Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, artist, writer and curator as he lifts up and takes a different look at what he considers marginalized classics of the 20th Century. Until now. Part 1: Portrait of Jason with Jessica Almasy & Mikéah Ernest Jennings Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason was a groundbreaking work of cinema verité when it was released in 1967. Captured over a single evening, the portrayal of gay African-American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer Jason Holliday interrogated race, class and sexuality in ways that were and still are ahead of its time. Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, artist, writer and curator HiltonAls has adapted the film into an audio drama that captures the intimacy, vulnerability and rawness of the original piece while probing power and the price of storytelling itself. Join NYTW for an intimate evening with Jason along with Hilton's unique commentary and analysis. Part 2: Selections from Tennessee Williams In the second part of this series, Hilton Als will explore excerpts from three lesser-known Tennessee Williams plays. While Williams is known, of course, for the formidable women in his plays, these excerpts will bring Williams' powerful men to the fore as well-characters who have a lot to say about masculinity in general and masculinity and the artist in particular. Hilton Als Presents will be released as a free podcast beginning in March 2021. To receive a link when the podcast is live, sign up at www.nytw.org/show/hilton-als-presents . FOR WHICH IT STANDS A Benefit Reading By Lee Edward Colston II Directed by Bianca LaVerne Jones With Ashley Ayanna, Mikayla Bartholomew, Stephanie Berry, Christopher Cassarino, Katherine George, Bria Samoné Henderson, Deanna Reed-Foster, Carolyn M. Smith & Andrea Syglowski Available February 19-22, 2021 With the air conditioner busted and temperatures in the triple digits, the only thing keeping Ebony Hemmings cool is counting down the days to the end of her eight-year sentence at Lehigh Penitentiary. She and the other incarcerated women on the "Liberty Unit" sew American flags for a private prison contractor in exchange for recommendations for early release. But when the woman she loves joins a worker's strike against unfair and inhumane treatment of the women of Liberty, it ignites a powder keg of decades of hidden abuse. With tempers & temperatures boiling and her freedom on the line, Ebony knows the red stripes on the flags she sews could very easily turn to blood. For Which It Stands will stream free February 19-22, 2021 on NYTW.org, with donations requested for the following organizations which support prison reform: •Rehabilitation Through the Arts: RTA helps people in prison develop critical life skills through the arts, modeling an approach to the justice system based on human dignity rather than punishment. www.rta-arts.org •A New Way of Life Reentry Project: A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides housing, case management, pro bono legal services, advocacy and leadership development for women rebuilding their lives after prison. www.anewwayoflife.org •Women's Prison Association: The Women's Prison Association (WPA) empowers women to redefine their lives in the face of injustice and incarceration. www.wpaonline.org/programs OPEN OFFICE HOURS New York Theatre Workshop is establishing Open Office Hours, a pilot program to allow members of NYTW's Artistic Staff to meet with new artists of all disciplines, prioritizing access for BIPOC artists. Open Office Hours is designed as a free and open exchange of ideas, a space where NYTW Artistic Staff can learn about what you do and who you are-your experiences, visions and dreams as a person and as an artist -and begin the process of introducing ourselves and sharing our philosophies and practices. These meetings are not a place to evaluate work, nor are they auditions or job interviews, but instead a space where we can intentionally welcome transparency into the way we work and further a process of building community and cultivating relationships. The first iteration of Open Office Hours will host sessions for two hours per week for four consecutive weeks. There will be two different styles of gathering: group conversations and individual sessions. Sign-ups are offered on a first-come, first-served basis and the staff hosts for each conversation will be published alongside the meeting schedule. Participating Artistic Staff members include the Artistic Director, Casting Director, Literary Director & Dramaturg, Artist Workshop Producer and Director of Education. The Open Office Hours program begins on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. To sign up & for more information visit www.nytw.org/artist-workshop/lets-meet . Reservations will open on Thursday February 11 at 12pm EST. VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING FIRESIDE CHAT: The Power of Proverbs & the Tradition of Oral Storytelling With Dael Orlandersmith, Martha Redbone and Jillian Walker, moderated by Brennie Tellu Wednesday February 17, 2021 at 5PM EST Traditionally, Africans have used proverbs and oral storytelling as a primary method by which elders bestowed pearls of wisdom, shared deep knowledge of culture, passed down family history as a preservation of legacy, and taught social practices. These narratives provide entertainment and are experienced as folktales, myths, fables, epic histories, common sayings, and legends. But they are also purposed to inform, educate, persuade and teach values much as theatre today informs, widens our perspectives, and helps us better understand our world. Join us in conversation with Dael Orlandersmith, Martha Redbone and Jillian Walker as we explore how the power of proverbs and oral storytelling has inspired and/or informed the artistry of each of these gifted theatremakers and how these narratives have shaped their experiences as Black women. To RSVP to attend for free, visit www.nytw.org/nytw-virtual-programming . The Fireside Chat will also be live streamed at Facebook.com/nytw79. FIRESIDE CHAT: No Passing Here: Four Latinx Artists on Theatre and Race/Ethnicity With Virginia Grise, Lindsay Rico, Andrew G. Rodriguez and Tiffany Small, moderated by Victor I. Cazares Wednesday February 24, 2021 at 5PM EST What happens when Indigenous, Black, and Asian Latinx theatre artists get together to talk about art, life, the myths of Mestizaje and dismantling Latinidad? We literally don't know because it hasn't been done before. The theatre world in the US is behind on understanding Latinx communities and the complexities of both race and ethnicity within them. Inspired by conversations about race and indigeneity that are being led by actors Tenoch Huerta and Yalitza Aparicio in Mexico, Playwright Victor I. Cazares has invited artists Virginia Grise, Lindsay Rico, Andrew G. Rodriguez and Tiffany Small to discuss, organize and dream. To RSVP to attend for free, visit www.nytw.org/nytw-virtual-programming . The Fireside Chat will also be live streamed at Facebook.com/nytw79 . VIRTUAL OPEN MIC NIGHT: One Song Glory Thursday February 25, 2021 at 7PM EST Join NYTW and Poetic Theater Productions for their monthly Virtual Open Mic Night. The evening's theme: ONE SONG GLORY. 25 years ago, New York Theatre Workshop held the first public performance of Jonathan Larson's RENT on the same day of his unexpected passing. His message to radically celebrate one's individual spirit and artistry even in times of deep fear, chaos and intolerance continues to resonate. How do we come into our artistry in this shifting time? How do we measure a year of COVID in love, healing and community? While America may feel like it's in the Twilight Zone, we encourage you to take that artistic leap of faith and write that poem and sing that song that rings true. To register to perform or RSVP to attend for free, visit www.nytw.org/nytw-virtual-programming . MASTERCLASS: Experiments in Digital Theatre Friday March 26, 2021 at 3PM EDT Experiments in Digital Theatre will explore Theater Mitu's process in adapting their 2018 piece, REMNANT, into a digital format, , for its fall 2020 run at NYTW. Theater Mitu is committed to expanding the definition of theater through methodical experimentation with its form and the necessity for a remotely-experienced production provided an opportunity to explore the possibilities of digital production. Led by Theater Mitu Associate Artists Alex Hawthorn and Ada Westfall, this masterclass will be both technical and theoretical as we discuss tools and tactics for theater-makers to create remotely accessible performance. Topics covered will include creating character through technology, the culture and behavior of media platforms, disembodied performance, and multi-platform art-making. To complete a free registration, visit www.nytw.org/nytw-virtual-programming . NYTW DIGITAL ARCHIVE New York Theatre Workshop recently launched a digital archive, giving NYTW Members and Repeat Defenders a free all-access pass to stream many of the 2020/21 Artistic Instigator season's theatrical experiences on-demand. From February 15-28, 2021, NYTW Members & Donors will be able to stream NYTW's 2017 production of The Object Lesson, by NYTW Usual Suspect Geoff Sobelle,directed by David Neumann and featuring scenic installation design by Steven Dufala. The archive launched with a special sneak peek work-in-process sharing of The Talking Circles, written and performed by Martha Redbone & Aaron Whitby. Other projects that are available to stream via the archive include What the Hell is a Republic, Anyway?; The Seagull on The Sims 4; Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall; The Cooking Project; and The Wright Stuff. The NYTW Digital Archive can be viewed at www.nytw.org/streams . NYTW Memberships begin at $20/month and are available at NYTW.org or 212-460-5475. While the Artistic Instigators are supported in their exploration of form and content, audiences will be invited to experience the evolution of the work through work-in-process sharings and behind-the-scenes conversations with artists. NYTW is asking audiences to take a leap. What it promises in return is a front-row seat to the unfolding of this experiment-and that the definition of a "front-row seat" will shift throughout the year. Some events will be exclusively virtual experiences while others may take place in person-when it is possible to do so with appropriate safety measures. For tickets and more information about these projects and the Artistic Instigators, please visit www.nytw.org. Alongside its artistic and community engagement programming, NYTW is engaged in the essential, sustained commitment of becoming an anti-racist organization in support and affirmation of Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color in their community. In June, NYTW published its Core Values statement and initial action and accountability steps. In an effort to provide greater transparency, NYTW shared an October update with next steps at nytw.org/accountability. NYTW will continue to publish updates in the coming months about further commitments and the progress updates. New York Theatre Workshop empowers visionary theatre-makers and brings their work to adventurous audiences through productions, artist workshops and educational programs. We nurture pioneering new writers alongside powerhouse playwrights, engage inimitable genre-shaping directors, and support emerging artists in the earliest days of their careers. We've mounted over 150 productions from artists whose work has shaped our very idea of what theatre can be, including Jonathan Larson's Rent; Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright's Quills; Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus; Will Power's The Seven and Fetch Clay, Make Man; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath; Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh's Once; David Bowie and Enda Walsh's Lazarus; Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick and Forever; and eight acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW's productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 25 Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. NYTW is represented on Broadway with Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin and the upcoming Sing Street, based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney, with a book by Enda Walsh, music and lyrics by Gary Clark & John Carney, directed by Rebecca Taichman. # # # BIOS HILTON ALS began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for Talk of the Town. He became a staff writer in 1994, a theater critic in 2002, and chief theater critic in 2013. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing, a George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, the American Academy's Berlin Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work at The New Yorker in 2017. He is the author of the critically acclaimed White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award in 2014 and a Professor at Columbia University's Writing Program He lives in New York City. LEE EDWARD COLSTON II, is a Black & Queer Philly native, former prison guard & MMA fighter turned actor, television writer & producer, playwright, director, acting teacher and author. Selected acting credits include: The Color Purple (Natl. tour), Seven Guitars, Hoodoo Love, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop), The Winter's Tale, Uncle Vanya, Intimate Apparel (Shakespeare & Company). Acting television credits include: "The Blacklist: Redemption" (NBC), "Mr. Robot" (USA). Playwriting: plays include Roost, Solitary, The First Deep Breath and For Which It Stands. His new plays currently in development include This Is My America and Station. His play SOLITARY was winner of the 2008 Philadelphia Theater Workshop. His play Roost won the 2010 Life Media Award in the Philadelphia Urban Theater Festival & the 2013 Hidden River Arts Award for best new play. He was a 2017 Finalist for the Shonda Rhimes 'Unsung Voices' Playwriting Commission and a 2017 recipient of the National Black Theatre 'I Am Soul' playwriting fellowship. In 2019, Lee's critically acclaimed play The First Deep Breath opened to rave reviews at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago as well as being a semifinalist for the Page 73 playwriting fellowship and a finalist for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award as well as being the 2020 recipient of the Steinberg New Play Award Citation and the Jeff Award for Best New Play. Television writing credits include Season 4 of "Fargo" on FX and "For Life" on ABC. Lee is currently developing projects for television with FX and HBO as well as theatre projects for Broadway. BFA in Acting: University of the Arts / MFA in Acting: The Juilliard School. A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT (ANWOL) is a grassroots nonprofit organization founded in 1998 by Susan Burton. After Susan's five-year-old son was accidentally hit and killed by a car, Susan numbed her grief through alcohol and drugs. She was not offered help to address her pain. As a result, she became enmeshed in the criminal justice system for nearly two decades before finding freedom and sobriety in 1997. She has since made it her life's mission to help others adversely affected by the problems of incarceration and addiction by providing them with support and resources. Susan has earned numerous awards and honors for her work. In 2010, she was named a CNN Top Ten Hero and received the prestigious Citizen Activist Award from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a recipient of both the Encore Purpose Prize (2012) and the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award (2014). In 2015, on the 50th Anniversary of Selma and the Voting Rights Act, Susan Burton was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of eighteen new civil rights leaders in the nation. In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from California State University, Riverside.A New Way of Life advances multi-dimensional solutions to the effects of incarceration. We provide housing and support to formerly incarcerated women for successful community reentry, family reunification and individual healing. We work to restore the civil rights of formerly incarcerated people and to empower, organize and mobilize formerly incarcerated people as advocates for social change and personal transformation. We envision a world where every person can make decisions for their own life, one in which they are accountable for those decisions and are valued as a contributing member of the community.anewwayoflife.org REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS (RTA). The U.S. prison system is based on punishment. Do your time, learn your lesson. The problem is, it doesn't work - more than half of people released from prison are back within three years. This revolving door breaks down families and communities and costs taxpayers billions. RTA offers a better approach. Founded at Sing Sing in 1996, RTA works with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and professional teaching artists to lead year-round workshops in theatre, dance, music, creative writing, and visual arts. The RTA model is to provide an intensive, comprehensive arts program that builds community and develops critical life skills so people can meet the challenges they will face when released. RTA demonstrates that an approach based on human dignity is vastly more successful than one based on punishment. Less than 5% of RTA members return to prison, compared to the national recidivism rate of 60%. RTA is part of several national and international coalitions and advocates for a shift in the justice system toward positive prison programming including the arts and higher education. Your support will expand RTA's life-changing work, breaking the generational cycle of incarceration. To learn more, visit www.rta-arts.org. WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION (WPA) is the nation's first organization for women impacted by incarceration. Our approach is personal. We address the root causes of systems involvement, know the data, and are focused on the needs and nuances of individuals. We envision a society where our reliance on incarceration has been replaced by constructive, community-driven responses. WPA offers programs for all stages, tailored for each woman. We recognize that men and women take different paths to the criminal legal system and have diverse experiences before, during, and after incarceration. Our programs are designed specifically for women. At WPA, we listen first. Women are the experts in their own lives and know what they need. Some women need short-term solutions while others need long-term support. Caring and committed staff listen to each woman and co-create a vision for her future. Women come to WPA to achieve what is most important to them. Together we find safe, affordable housing; develop workplace skills and build careers; reunify families; plan for release while incarcerated; achieve stability in the community rather than behind bars; access healthcare; work toward personal goals; and avoid additional systems involvement. WPA operates two shelters for women experiencing homelessness: one for single women and one for mothers and their children. Residents access a broad range of programs, defined by their individual goals, focused on education, employment, safe housing, health and mental health care, substance use support, and family reunification. Our shelter for single women, Hopper Home, has operated from New York's East Village since 1857. On December 5, 2020, a fire destroyed Hopper Home's next door neighbor, Middle Collegiate Church, resulting in extensive damage to WPA's landmarked home and displacing 20 residents. Those women were immediately relocated and are currently in residence in Brooklyn, with WPA's continued partnership. Recovery efforts are underway and WPA plans to return to its home on Second Avenue as soon as possible. |
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