CHICAGO: American Blues Theaterannounced that the recipient of the Blue Ink Award 2025 is Alyssa Haddad-Chin, for his room You should be so lucky. As part of the prize, Haddad-Chin receives a cash prize of $ 3,000 and a staging reading at the American Blues Theater. Directed by Helen Young, reading will be presented this summer as part of the Blue Ink 2025 dramatic writing festival on Saturday August 9, as well as new works of finalists Erlina Ortiz (She wore these shoes), and Ladarrion Williams (Hurt).
Alyssa Haddad-Chin is an American Lebanese playwright, an educator and a facilitator of the arts. She is a scholarship in the Target Marge Theater Institute 2024-25, commanded by Keen Company for their Keen Teens 2024-25 series, and a 2025 artist at Mercury Store. His room The Married Youth Game won the Festival of New Comedies of B Street Theater from B Street and received its world premiere in June 2024. She is a new artist affiliated with Georges, a resident artist at Breaking and Entring Theater Collective, and the company and community director at the Target Margin Theater. A collection of his short pieces, And now a little something for the ladies (among others), is published with 1319 Press. She holds an MFA in dramatic writing of the Nyu Tisch School of the Arts.
North Haven, conn.: THE Burry Fredrik Foundation Named costume and picturesque designer Arthur Wilson as a recipient of the Burry Fredrik Design 2025 scholarship and its $ 10,000 price. Created in 2017, the scholarship helps launch the career of graduates of the David Geffen School of Drama's design program. Each year, the faculty selects a scenian, a costume, a lighting, a projection or a sound designer
Wilson, from southern California, graduated from California State University, Fullerton, with a double baccalaureate in music (Opera Singing) and theater. As the first cycle, he continued the emphasis on the musical theater and the representation of Opera. He also worked in the costume shop and developed a love for design. Costume design credits include Notes on the death of seven members of the supervisory, management and economic stability boardTo come this spring at the Yale REP; Cactus queen And Uncle VANYA (Geffen School). Assistant assembly: Clueless: Musical Comedy (West End), Harvey (Laguna Playhouse), and Skylight (Chance Theater).
Indianapolis: THE New harmony project announced the programming of their 38th annual spring residence in New Harmony, in Ind. Following an intensive selection process with more than 530 applications, a diversified selection panel made recommendations for the company 2025. The celebration of new NHP parts will feathand these writers at the residence, as well as projects of the Productions in Residence program, from May 30 to 31.
The group of selected artists includes Brittany Allen (SequoiaPortland Center Stage), Deborah Asante (Asante Arts Institute, Indianapolis), Kimberly Belflower (John Proctor is the villain), Matthew Chong (David Geffen School of Drama in Yale, Lessons), Margot Carmody (Carnegie Mellon University, Forget me-forget me), Kristiana Rae Colón (Chi), Ty Defoe (Ojibwe and Oneida Nations, Tattoo), Maddie Easley (Wyandot nation, Representatives for peace), Zachariah Ezer (Black women in technology), Miriam Gonzales (10 seconds), Franky Gonzalez (Bishop Arts Theater Center Playwright in residence), Jessica Huang (James Still Playwright in residence at the Indiana Repertory Theater), Monet Hurst-Mendoza (TorusAlley Theater), Alex Lin (La Juilliard School, Chinese Republicans), Nehemiah Luckett (RubyWestcoast black theater troupe), Christopher Lysik (Iowa University, PIROGI PLAY), Rajera Ramoon Maharaj (The factotumLyric Opera de Chicago), Gloria Majule (My father was shot down to the back of the head), Tybu Mohan (Jala smriti), Abigail onwunali (Jewel), Phanesia Pharel (The waterfall), Amalia Oliva Rojas (Columbia University, How to melt the ice, or how the coyote fell in love with the butterfly that tried to be a lizard), Madeline Sayet (Mohegan tribe of Connecticut, Where we belong), Michael Shayan (Abaaz), and Mark Valdez and Ashley Sparks (Mark-N-Sparks, The most beautiful house … maybe)).
For its Productions in Residence program, NHP has teamed up with Stone Thrown theater company (Ridgefield, conn.) To support the development of The waterfall would be Phanesia Pharel. The waterfall will be led by Taylor Reynolds (Tambo and bone). PNH also continues to support the development of For my next round.. by Michael Shayan.
New York: The New York Conservancy monuments announced the winners of the 2025 Preservation price of Lucy G. MosesThe highest honors of conservation conservation. The winners present exceptional and difficult preservation projects that occur throughout the city.
The Shubert Theater at 225 West 44th Street and Booth Theater at 222 West 45th Street in Manhattan, the New Victory Theater at 209 West 42nd Street in Manhattan, and the Palace Theater at 1568 Broadway in Manhattan will receive prizes during a ceremony on April 22 at 6 p.m. at Edison Balroom.
In the halls of Shubert and Booth, built in 1912 and 1913, a facade restoration revealed the depths of a single plaster technique and improved the exteriors of these two theaters. This vast outdoor project has cleaned and repaired the three brick and terracotta facades, and the sheet in sheet metal. The most convincing work was the restoration of the decorative Sgraffito, a technique rarely used in New York. This successful project is probably the largest SGRAFFITO restoration in the city.
Throughout 125 years of changes to the New Victory Theater, one thing remained the same: the ring of angelic sculptures aligning the dome of the ceiling and looking at the scene and the public. This project restored the dome and secure the angels. The repairs included the installation of the reinforcement of the fibers through the flat plaster of the dome, the reduction of angelic sculptures to the perimeter of the dome, providing a new structural framing and the anchoring for the Dome medallion, the installation of a new canvas cover in canvas and the consolidation of all the dome ribs.
The Palace Theater, initially built in 1913, is an emblematic part of Broadway and an interior monument. In an extraordinary feat of engineering and preservation, the interior of 14 million pounds was lifted by 30 feet and reinstalled with its full range of intact opulent historical characteristics. The results combine preservation with contemporary functionalities. The existing structures, such as super-columns and historic plaster, have been preserved, while the updated finishes replaced those that had changed over time.
East Haddam, conn.: Musical Goodspeed announced the announcement that Myjoycia Cezar was selected as a recipient of this year of the Andrew A. Isen Prize at Goodspeed Musicals. This prize is funded by a generous gift offered by Andrew A. ISEW, an entrepreneur based in DC and the passionate about musical theater, and was created to give young people who are at the origin of financial aid and financial encouragement to professional development to focus on artistic excellence in musical theater. The winner receives $ 5,000 to help pursuing a career in musical theater.
Cezar is stage director, production director and leader. She graduated in 2022 of the Northwestern State University of Louisiana with a BFA in production and design. Currently, she is the assistant production director of Goodspeed Musicals, in what role she helps to coordinate and meet the production needs for current and future seasons. Before joining the Goodspeed team, his work varied across the country, from the management of the regional theater of New Orleans, Los Angeles and North Carolina, to work outside Broadway in New York, to manage many outdoor productions on stage on Cedar Point Park in Sandusky, Ohio.
New Haven, conn.:THE Windham-Campbell price Awarded eight writers $ 175,000 each to support their work and allow them to focus on their creative practice regardless of financial concerns. The 2025 theater recipients are the playwrights based in the United Kingdom Roy Williams and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini.
Known for his nuanced representations of the race and the class, Roy Williams exploits his exquisite observation powers to reveal how the simmering pressures of contemporary life can explode in uncontrolled hatred. With his signature style and through his work, Williams paints a representation of Britain today both uncomfortable and undeniably essential. Williams' distinctions include Visionary Honors Award (2022), The Writers Guild of Great Britain Award (2011), The Alfred Fagon Award (2010 and 1997), The Eventing Standard Theatre Award for Mosting Playwright (2001), and A nomination for the Olivier Awards (2011). In addition to writing for the stage, Williams also writes for cinema, television and radio.
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini was launched on the stage with their first game Muscovado (2014). A “bionic and queer playwright” self-written, Ibini center of margins of margins, including queer and disabled people, and gives them life to their magical magical magic splendor. Their Winner of Olivier Sleepova (2023) is a love letter to Black Girls, and takes as a pajamas among four friends. Ibini is the recipient of the inevitable Foundation X Loreen Arbus Collective Award (2024), a Circle Theater Award for the most promising playwright (2023), and an Award from Alfred (2015), among other honors. They wrote in a variety of mediums, including children's books, for the screen and audio dramas for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Audible. Ibini lives in eastern London.
