| Beehive Dramaturgy Studio Partners with Anticapitalism for Artists | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:42 pm EST 02/24/21 | |
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| Beehive Dramaturgy Studio Celebrates Five Years by Welcoming New Collective Members and Announcing New Partnership with Anticapitalism for Artists Community (February 24, 2021 - New York, NY) - Beehive Dramaturgy Studio is proud to announce the launch of a new partnership with a team of artist-organizers including Chris Myers (actor, An Octoroon), Stephanie Borgovan (visual artist), Sofia Goodman (researcher/printmaker), Naiyah Ambros (filmmaker), and Annie McFoxwell (actor) on a new programming series called Anticapitalism for Artists. Anticapitalism for Artists is an inclusive community approach to learning dedicated to raising class consciousness among artists through politically focused offerings accessible to a range of knowledge levels, all on a donation-based pay model. Anticapitalism for Artists was originally founded by Chris Myers on the principle of overcoming racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, settler-colonialism and imperialism. It initially took shape last summer in the form of an eight-week course for a small cohort. Now, Beehive will help facilitate a deeper dramaturgical exploration of capitalism's historical effect on art via an array of events about how class intersects with racism, sexism, and ableism, all within the larger context of the theater industry and the arts as a whole. The launch weekend, March 19-21, 2021, will feature events centered on the theme "Getting Capitalism Out of Art." Events will include a panel titled "What is the role of the artist in revolution?," a teach-in on "Organizing Artists Today," and a community discussion around the question "Radical Hour: If art is not competitive, then what is it?" For details, visit www.anticapitalismforartists.com. Chris Myers said, "Anticapitalism for Artists exists to sharpen the context of artists looking to effect social change by expanding their facility with class politics. Beehive, as a visionary collective of dramaturgs, shares a commitment to enhancing the capacities of the artist by strengthening awareness of underlying capitalist realities. I believe we also share a mutual respect for imagining and pursuing courageous ways to transform the landscape of the world for artists." Now in its fifth year, Beehive Dramaturgy Studio is expanding its ranks to welcome fifteen new Affiliate Dramaturg members: Jess Applebaum, Ashley Chang , Adrian Centeno, Sandra Daley-Sharif, Iyvon Edeberi, Lewis Fender, Ali Keller, Rose Oser, Jocelyn Prince, Phaedra Michelle Scott, Aydan Shahd, Lizzie Stern, Arminda Thomas, Regina Victor and Miriam Weiner. They join co-founding dramaturgs Molly Marinik , Natasha Sinha and Jeremy Stoller, as well as Business Manager Jenna Ready, in making skilled dramaturgy accessible through a range of offerings. To learn more about the Founding and Affiliate Dramaturgs, visit Beehive's website: beehivedramaturgy.com/whoweare. "We are thrilled to grow our collective by welcoming a dynamic cohort of insightful and innovative dramaturgs, as well as a timely new partnership with Chris and Anticapitalism for Artists," Beehive's co-founders said in a statement. "By centering the rigorous, artist-led, audience-conscious dramaturgy that we believe in, we hope to continually evolve how best we can engage with the artistic community at large." ABOUT BEEHIVE Beehive Dramaturgy Studio was founded in 2016 by Molly Marinik, Natasha Sinha and Jeremy Stoller to make skilled dramaturgy accessible to producers and individual artists through a range of affordable, collaborative offerings. The co-founders are Artistic Associates at Musical Theatre Factory, which awarded Beehive the inaugural MTF Builders Award in 2019. In addition to working with artists and creative teams, Beehive engages with theatre organizations on a variety of curatorial, literary management, program-building, and consulting projects. Beehive's organizational partners have included Page 73, Playwrights Realm, Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, Wingspace, and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others. Beehive has also been published in Musical Theater Today, Volume 2. Individually, Beehive dramaturgs have worked with writers including César Alvarez & Emily Orling, Michael Cooper & Hyeyoung Kim, LM Feldman, Gina Femia, Dave Harris, Zora Howard, Michael R. Jackson, Melissa Li & Kit Yan, and Heather Raffo, among many others. The collective's website has become a resource for artists seeking to demystify dramaturgy by laying out definitions, various methods of collaboration, multiple affordable fee structures, and how to engage in artist-led feedback discussions. ABOUT CHRIS MYERS Chris Myers (he/him) is an actor, writer, and educator. As an actor, he has performed on stage and screen, from leading Off-Broadway institutions to top streaming services. He has worked with industry icons such as Tom Hanks, Phylicia Rashad, Spike Lee, Woody Harrelson and Frank Langella, among many others. After winning an Obie Award for his performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon, he went on to perform in Whorl Inside A Loop and was noted as one of The New York Times' Top Stage Moments of 2015. On screen, Chris appears in Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It" (Netflix), "The Resident" (Fox), "Sneaky Pete" (Amazon), "The Breaks" (VH1), "The Good Fight" (CBS) and the recent "Merry Happy Whatever" with Dennis Quaid on Netflix. He's written and self-produced two short films and an episodic pilot, "GUAP," a comedy about gentrification which raised $23,000 on Kickstarter. Chris is a former Artist-in Residence and faculty member at the Harlem School of the Arts. During his time as a teaching artist with the Classical Theater of Harlem, he inaugurated the Actors Advocate intensive. Most recently, Chris has expanded into political education for artists with the Anticapitalism for Artists program. http://chrismyersinc.com NEW AFFILIATE DRAMATURG BIOGRAPHIES Jess Applebaum (she/her) is a dramaturg-scholar whose practice is rooted in contemporary performance and social action. As a dramaturg she works collaboratively with performance makers, academics, and activists to develop and facilitate creative processes. Her work pays particular attention to lifting up the cultural and political context of each project: identifying how the content developed serves both its creators and its audience in a shared, live moment. As a PhD candidate in CUNY's Theater and Performance program, Jess's scholarship focuses on the labor of dramaturgy: pushing the perceived boundaries of how research is performed and applied in both creative and academic work. She believes that bodies perform knowledge, process activates power, and that, together, they can inspire new pedagogical and civic practices. Adrian Centeno (he/him) is a new play dramaturg, theatre history and criticism lecturer, and arts education programmer based out of Los Angeles, CA. He's developed new works at San Diego Repertory Theatre, Childsplay Theatre Company, foolsFURY Theater Company, Playwrights' Arena, Company of Angels, USC School of Dramatic Arts, UC Santa Cruz Theatre Arts, and Barnstorm Theatre Company. He's also served as production dramaturg for companies such as Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara and the Jewel Theatre Company. Additionally, Adrian has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in theatre history, criticism, and applied critical theory at Cal State Long Beach. He's served as a grant panelist for Page 73, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Adrian has also been honored to serve on the festival selection committee for Premiere Stages, Kitchen Dog Theater, 50 Playwrights Project, and San Diego Rep. An emerging writer, Adrian's words have been published by the University of London. He is the former literary manager of Playwrights' Arena, where he produced developmental readings by Janine Salinas Schoenberg, Madhuri Shekar, Inda Craig-Calván, Matthew Paul Olmos, and Chelsea Sutton, among others. He was recently named one of American Theatre's Six Theatre Workers You Should Know. Ashley Chang (she/her) has served as Dramaturg at Playwrights Horizons since 2019, following appointments as Artistic Associate at Page 73, Literary Associate at Yale Repertory Theatre, Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret's 49th season, and Managing Editor of the Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base. At Playwrights Horizons, she develops new plays, provides dramaturgical support for a wide range of artistic programming (podcasts, classes, workshops, panels), serves on the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group, and is Editor-in-Chief of the theater's literary magazine, Almanac. She is also a Doctor of Fine Arts Candidate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama, where her dissertation examines the intersections of theater, performance, and ecology in scholarly criticism and artistic practice from the 1990s to the present. She has presented her research at Modern Language Association (MLA), American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR), and the Beyond Humanism Conference Series. She is also a co-convener of the Ecology & Performance Working Group at the ASTR/TLA Annual Conference (2019, 2020, 2021). She has taught courses in theater, performance, and dramaturgy at Purchase College, University of New Haven, and the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University. Her writing has been published in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Afterall, Global Performance Studies, Cuntemporary, and POV paper. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English and Philosophy from Stanford University. Sandra A. Daley-Sharif (she/her) is a Josephine Abady Award recipient and an OBIE Award-winning producer, both for her contribution of Diversity to the American theatre landscape. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College under the mentorship of Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. She is the Producing Artistic Director of Liberation Theatre Company in NYC. She has produced many projects across disciplines over the years. She is a founding member of HARLEM9, a group of producers coming together to explore the past, present, and future of theater. Sandra has a commendable resume of over 25 years in theater, film, and television. Two of her plays made it to the Kilroys List 2017. She is a Eugene O'Neill (2017), Princess Grace Award (2019), and a Bay Area Festival semi-finalist (2020). Most recently, The Fire This Time presented a reading of her full-length play Hedda: A Portrait of a (Young) Woman and a production of her short play Anonymous, which was also produced by the EstroGenius Festival. Sandra's play Straddling the Edge is a Barbour Award finalist and was recently workshopped at the cell theatre. Les Fréres is a 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist and was workshopped at the University of Toronto (2019). Her short play Man in the Moon was developed and presented by The Exquisite Corpse Company. Iyvon Edebiri (she/her) is a Nigerian-American independent creative producer, company manager, and dramaturg hailing from Brooklyn, NY. Iyvon is the co-founder, artistic director and host of The Parsnip Ship, a radio-play series and platform amplifying underproduced playwrights. Iyvon was a Fulbright Fellow to Italy, where she assistant directed and dramaturged two American musicals in Bologna, including the Italian national premiere of Ragtime. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Gilman International Scholarship, and The DO School's Future of Audio Entertainment Fellowship in Berlin. Iyvon was the recipient of the 2019 Mark O'Donnell Prize awarded by The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons for emerging, anomalous theater artists. Iyvon has worked with Joe's Pub, Sundance Institute Theater Program, The Public Theater, The Civilians, and as the Associate Producer at ArKtype. She is a member of the WP 2020 - 2022 Producers Lab. B.A. Brandeis University. M.A. Baruch College (CUNY) Arts Administration. @iamiyvon Lewis Fender (he/him) is a trans dramaturg and director based in New York City, graduating from NYU Gallatin with a concentration in the dramaturgy of adaptation. He has previously worked with New Dramatists and Elevator Repair Service. Interested in a wide variety of theater, he has dramaturged Shakespeare as well as new work, with a specialization in experimental adaptation and devised work. Lewis has spent time both studying and working with German-language theater, specifically the works of Brecht, Müller, and Jelinek. Lewis is currently part of the International Dramaturgy Lab with LMDA, creating with a group of dramaturgs a Spanish-English podcast focusing on the epistemology of dramaturgy and meaning-making outside of traditionally theatrical settings. This will be presented at the LMDA Conference in Summer 2021. Ali Keller's (she/hers) plays have been presented at various theaters across New York City, including Standards (The Dramatists Guild), Whale (Emerging Artists Theatre, The Riant Theatre), Here to Stay (The Gallery Players), For Goodness Sake (4th Street Theatre @ New York Theatre Workshop), Dear Nate (Midtown International Theatre Festival, ACME Theatre Festival), Un Altro Errore Nella Famiglia (Step1 Theatre Project), Slut Claus (Manhattan Rep Theatre, Bucknell University), Preference (Pussyfest V - Caps Lock Theatre), No Italian (Rising Sun Performance Company Laboratorium), and Good For You (The Assembly Hall at Judson Memorial Church). Good For You also made it to the second round at the 2018 Austin Film Festival Play Competition. She participated in Serials at The Flea - Cycle 43, where her series The Interview ran for two weeks. Readings of her plays Slut Claus, Dear Nate, Independent Christmas, Unresolved, Seven Fishes, and For Goodness Sake have been recorded as part of The CRY HAVOC Podcast. Select film credits include Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (production assistant), Believin' (Production Manager), Fair, Kind, and True (Producer), and Zero Issue (Producer). Select associate director and assistant credits include Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Broadway); the 2012 Oscar Hammerstein Awards; and Live From Lincoln Center: Sweeney Todd and Rob Fischer Celebrates Kander & Ebb. Select directing credits include: A Visit To The Bronx (finalist in The Avery Theater Company's 20/20 Festival at The Phillipstown Depot Theater), Stage Mothers (The Clurman Theatre), and Clarence The Cannibal (The Bowery Poetry Club). Ali has also been a Dramaturg with the New York Musical Festival. In 2018, the two musicals she worked with, Peter, Who? and Till, both won Best Book. She has also worked with many individual clients on new plays and musicals through Beehive Dramaturgy. Ali has worked as teaching assistant for Adam Gwon and Abe Koogler at Primary Stages. She received her B.A. in Theatre Arts at Bucknell University, is a Member of the Stillwater Writers Group, and a Resident Playwright at The CRY HAVOC Company, a Producer at the New York Picture Company, and a Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Rose Oser (she/her) is a theater producer, playwright, and performer. ?She is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Z Space in San Francisco, where she produces plays and musicals, helps curate the rentals and co-productions, and manages the grant writing. Through artistic positions at Z Space and FaultLine Theater she has produced first workshops or world premiere productions by Rachel Bublitz, Karina Cochran, Barry Eitel, Vanessa Flores, Dan Giles, Jake Jeppson, Nayia Kuvetakis, Luna Malbroux, Adrienne Price, Savannah Reich, Kate E. Ryan, and Andrew Saito. She is the book writer of Tinderella: the modern musical (world premiere April 2018 co-produced by FaultLine Theater and Custom Made), which has garnered 9 SFBATCC nominations including Best Production and was named a TBA Finalist for Outstanding World Premiere Musical. She produces and hosts Tinder Disrupt, San Francisco's longest running and most sexually successful PowerPoint dating show. She received the LMDA Bly Grant in 2018 to produce the first annual Problematic Play Festival at Z Space to interrogate the process of evaluating and selecting new work. She was the Co-Artistic Director of FaultLine Theater from 2016-2019 (recipient of Annette Lust Award in 2018), and worked as a grant writer for American Conservatory Theater from 2014-2017. She holds a BA in Rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley. Jocelyn Prince (she/her) is a Chicago-based writer, artist, and activist, currently a Principal at ALJP Consulting and on the Performance Studies and Theater faculty at Northwestern University. She previously served as Artistic Coordinator at Yale Repertory Theatre, Site Coordinator for Almira PreK-8 Academy at Cleveland Play House, Connectivity Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and Artistic Associate at The Public Theater in NYC. She is a Co-Founding Artistic Director of The New Black Fest in NYC. Selected Production Dramaturgy credits include Invisible Man, The First Breeze of Summer, and Raisin (Court Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Juilliard School of Drama); Harriet Jacobs and Intimate Apparel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Black Diamond (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The MLK Project (Writers Theatre). Jocelyn has directed new work for the Playwrights Gym at Dobama Theatre, the Cleveland Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Local 4181, The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theater, the Go Green Festival at The Movement Theatre Company in NYC, the Around the Coyote Festival in Chicago, and Snapshots 10-Minute Play Festival at 20% Theatre Company Chicago. Jocelyn's social justice and political work includes staff positions with the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, Obama for America and Hillary for America with the Ohio Democratic Party, Kamala Harris for the People in Iowa, and volunteer work with the Washington Peace Center. She has read and evaluated scripts for The Kilroys List, the Emerging Writers Group, The Ohio University Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights' Festival, and The PlayPenn conference. Her performance poetry has been featured by The Encyclopedia Show Chicago, The Encyclopedia Show DC, and La Ti Do. Jocelyn holds a B.A. in Journalism from Bradley University and a M.A. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She has written for Time Out Chicago, Time Out New York, The Chicago Reporter, Nonprofit Quarterly and the African American Review. Phaedra Michelle Scott (she/her) is a dramaturg and playwright based in New York City. Phaedra serves as VP of Programs for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). She has been a part of the artistic departments of Cleveland Play House, Huntington Theatre Company and is the resident dramaturg with New Harmony Project and Black Theater Commons. As a playwright, she is a past resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm for her play Plantation Black, and is currently a member of the Obie-award winning playwriting ensemble Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater, and Pipeline Theater Company's PlayLab. Her latest play, Good Hair, is a recipient of a Sloan Foundation Grant. She has been an arts and culture journalist for wbur, Boston's NPR station and a content developer at the USS Constitution Museum. She is a crocheter, horror fan and obscure history enthusiast. www.phaedrascott.com Aydan Shahd (they/them or he/him) is a trans theatermaker and poet from Singapore, currently based in Chicago. They direct Shakespeare and new work, and have a background in ensemble-based and devised theatre. In addition to a love for both classical and new work, they are also interested in the mingling of the two - new work that retells, re-forms, or adapts literary/theatrical traditions. Aydan graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English, concentration in theatre, and served on the executive board of Columbia University's King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe for three years. They interned with Beehive co-founder Natasha Sinha at Signature Theatre, where they helped develop new dramaturgy-based artistic programming. Lizzie Stern (she/her) is a playwright and the Literary Manager at Playwrights Horizons, where she works as a new-play dramaturg. At Playwrights, she has collaborated with many writers including Jaclyn Backhaus, Tori Sampson, Halley Feiffer, Will Arbery, Danny Goldstein, and Deborah Stein. As a playwright, she is a member of EST/Youngblood, and has worked with SPACE on Ryder Farm, Clubbed Thumb, The Tank, The Hearth, Dixon Place, Two Headed Rep, and New Brooklyn Theatre in Istanbul. She has a B.A. from Williams College. Arminda Thomas (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, and archivist. She is currently co-producer and dramaturg for CLASSIX, which seeks to expand the classical canon through an exploration of dramatic works by Black writers. She has served as associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writer's Unit and as archivist and literary manager for Dee-Davis Enterprises, where she was an executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, "With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together," and consultant for the film Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee. As a dramaturg, she has worked with various theatres, including New Perspectives, Theatre for a New Audience, Baltimore Center Stage, New Federal Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Signature Theatre. She is also the writer/adapter of Shakespeare's Women, a "remix" of several Shakespearean works, which premiered at Hattiloo Theatre. Ms. Thomas received her BA in Theater and Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College and her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Columbia University. Regina Victor (they/them/theirs) is a Black director, multidisciplinary artist, and arts critic. Presently Sideshow Theatre's Artistic Director, and one of Newcity's "Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago" for two years running. They are the dramaturg for Jeannette The Musical, with a book by Lauren Gunderson and music by Ari Afsar. Victor has helped develop world premieres by Antoinette Nwandu, Anna Deavere Smith (Notes from the Field), Sarah Ruhl, and are directing works in development by Brynne Frauenhoffer (Pro-Am, Kilroys List 2020), and Terry Guest (Marie Antoinette & the Magical Negroes). They co-founded Rescripted in 2017, an arts journalism platform by and for artists, and have written for other publications including American Theatre, Playbill, and The Chicago Reader. Other notable artistic collaborations include Steppenwolf Theater, Jackalope Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Timeline Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre. In their spare time, they serve on the National Advisory Council for Howlround Theatre Commons, and as a board member for The Sappho Project. Learn more at www.reginavictor.com. Miriam Weiner (she/her) is the Literary Manager at the Tony Award-winning off-Broadway company Vineyard Theatre as well as a freelance director and dramaturg. "Under the Weather," a climate-comedy web series that Miriam co-wrote and directed, won Best Screenplay Award at the Brooklyn Web Festival and has screened around the world from Germany to Sicily. Miriam has been a reader for The Horton Foote Prize, The Yale Musical Theatre Workshop, The Jewish Plays Project, and The Princess Grace Awards. She is currently a professor at the Tepper Semester, Syracuse University Department of Drama. She holds an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College and a BA from Brandeis University. She is currently working on a podcast about watching theater. |
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