| Vineyard Theatre Announces Nazareth Hassan As Tow Foundation Playwright Residency Program Grant Award Winner | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 02:54 pm EST 03/02/24 | |
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| VINEYARD THEATRE ANNOUNCES NAZARETH HASSAN AS TOW FOUNDATION PLAYWRIGHT RESIDENCY PROGRAM GRANT AWARD WINNER (New York City, NY) - Vineyard Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Stern and Managing Director Suzanne Appel are proud to share they are one of fourteen New York City theaters that have been awarded a grant to participate in the Tow Foundation Playwright Residency Program. Nazareth Hassan has been selected as the Vineyard's Tow Foundation Playwright Residency Program grant award winner for 2023 - 2024. The Tow Playwright Residency program was founded in 2013 and offers playwrights the opportunity to focus on their craft, gain experience and insight into all aspects of the nonprofit theater world and debut their work. Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, writing, music, video, and photography whose work has been shown internationally in London, Mexico City and Berlin. "I am excited to have an artistic home at the Vineyard, and to continue to develop my dramaturgy alongside the amazing staff," says Hassan. Jesse Cameron Alick, Vineyard Associate Artistic Director, shares "At a time when artists need more support than they ever have, we couldn't be more honored to be working with TOW to bring on Nazareth Hassan as our playwright in residence. Nazareth is a brilliant and original artist, working interdisciplinary to combine text, movement and sound to radically expand what live performance can be. We are so excited to have the support to be working with them in-depth and long term." BIOGRAPHIES Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, writing, music, video, and photography. Recent performance works include Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stuckemarkt in Berlin, Slow Mania 009 at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first collection of poetry and photography Slow Mania will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. They have released 4 singles, available on all platforms. They were the 2022 resident dramaturgs at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They are a 2023-25 Jerome Hill artist fellow and the Tow Playwright in Residence at Vineyard Theatre. They make work about love, anger, ambivalence, shame, and surveillance. About Vineyard Theatre Under the artistic leadership of Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern, Vineyard Theatre has nurtured a community of fearless theatremakers whose work has expanded the form, the field, and the larger culture. Vineyard Theatre has transferred 11 shows to Broadway, seven directly after their acclaimed Vineyard premieres: Lucas Hnath's Dana H. and Tina Satter's Is This A Room (both NYT Best Theatre of 2021); Paula Vogel's Indecent; Nicky Silver's The Lyons; Kander, Ebb and Thompson's The Scottsboro Boys; Bell and Bowen's [title of show]; and Avenue Q by Marx, Lopez and Whitty (Tony Award, Best Musical). In recent years, four additional shows launched at The Vineyard have been revived in their first Broadway productions: Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive; Lanie Robertson's Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill; Becky Mode's Fully Committed; and Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women. From our home in NYC's Union Square, The Vineyard develops and premieres new plays and musicals which go on to be seen around the country and the world. Recently, Jeremy O. Harris' play "Daddy" (2019) received its London premiere at the Almeida; Ngozi Anyanwu's Good Grief (2018) and David Cale's Harry Clarke (2017) were recorded by Audible; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria (2014), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, transferred to Chicago's Goodman Theatre; Paula Vogel's Tony Award-winning Indecent (2016) aired on PBS's Great Performances and was one of the most-produced plays nationwide in 2019; Colman Domingo's Dot (2016) is being adapted into an AMC series; and Is This A Room is now HBO's Reality. The Vineyard's first major digital work, Lessons in Survival, was named one of the top theatrical experiences of 2020 by The New York Times and has been viewed by audiences in more than 40 countries, and our recent world-premiere production of John J. Caswell's Scene Partners, starring Dianne Wiest, was live-streamed around the world. Our work and artists have been honored with numerous awards including Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards, and the company is proud to be the recipient of special Drama Desk, Obie, and Lucille Lortel Awards for artistic excellence and support of artists. About The Tow Foundation The Tow Foundation was established in 1988 by Leonard and Claire Tow as a way to give back to the communities that shaped them. Its five primary impact areas are equity and justice, medicine and public health, arts and culture, higher education, and civic engagement. Grounded in its decades of work in Connecticut and New York and based in New Canaan, CT, the foundation supports visionary leaders and nonprofit organizations to find and enact innovative solutions to persistent inequality. It works to ensure people can become full participants in their communities, achieve transformative and lasting progress, and develop approaches that allow everyone to reach their full potential. www.vineyardtheatre.org |
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