NEW YORK: THE Guggenheim Foundation announced his 2025 scholarship holders April 15. This year marks its 100th class of scholarship holders. The program is part of its celebration of one year striking a century of transformer impact on American intellectual and cultural life. The theater workers among the 198 scholarship holders of 53 disciplines include the choreographer and interpreter Monica Bill Barnes; 600 Highwaymen Theater Artist Abigail Browde; Choreographer Donald Byrd; Play-Dright, director and chief of the Erik Ehn regional theater movement; The playwright Larissa Fasthorse, who received an indigenous scholarship with the support of the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation; Director Lars Jan; The theater researcher Suk-Young Kim; Mitu theater Founding artistic director Ruben Polendo; The director and choreographer Robert Saenz de Volti; and journalist / author Rachel Shteirin the general category of non-fiction (she writes a book entitled Why the theater counts).
As created in 1925 by its founder, Senator Simon Guggenheim, the scholarship grants a monetary allowance to continue independent work at the highest level in “the most free conditions possible”. Many scholarship projects directly respond to themes and questions in a timely time such as climate change, indigenous studies, identity, democracy and politics, imprisonment and the evolution of the community. Since its foundation in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted more than $ 400 million on the scholarships to more than 19,000 scholarship holders.
Providence, RI: April 15 Trinity Repertory Company announced his 26th annual winner Pell Award. The actors Tina Fey and Kelli O'Hara will each receive the Pell Prize for a life achievement in the arts. Mixed magic theater The co-founder and executive director Bernadet V. Pitts-Wiley will receive the Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts. This year's recipient of the Pell Award for Leadership in the Arts is Lorén Mr. Spears, executive director of Tomaquag MuseumThe only museum of arts, culture and history of Rhode Island. Prices will be awarded to the annual company gala on June 10. Created in 1997 to honor the heritage of the American senator Claiborne Pell (Dr.I.), the Pell Awards recognize excellence in art and pleaoyer, regional and national.
NEW York: Association of actors' actions and the Foundation on the actions of actors announced jointly that Perseverance The artistic director Leslie Ishii will receive her price Paul Robeson 2025 for 2025. The Paul Robeson Prize recognizes the work in progress in the communities to take advantage of the theater beyond the scene and adopt a commitment to freedom of expression and conscience for all.
The price confirms Paul Robes's belief in the artist's responsibility towards society and dedication to the improvement of humanity which he embodied in his life and his work. This is the only price administered jointly by the union and the foundation, awarded each year since Robeson itself received the first quotation in 1974. This announcement came on the eve of the 127th anniversary of Robeson.
Leslie Ishii is the artistic director of Perseverance Theater, a 45 -year -old company dedicated to the creation of professional theater by and for the Alaska. She is a director of Yonsei (fourth Japanese American generation), dramaturg, and performer. She made her debut as an actor in the Northwest Asian American Theater's Break the silenceThis collected legal defense funds for the resistance of the second American concentration camp Gordon Hirabayashi and his Supreme Court affair, and began to start intergenerational healing in the American Japanese community in Seattle. Since then, Ishii has felt called to support the narration which has been the healing justice of black artists and communities, Aboriginal and / or people of color (Bipoc). As director, art educator, activist and community builder / organizer, Ishii worked with Legacy Bipoc theaters, including Peasant theater,, Eastern players,, National Theater Black,, Shortened,, Mu Theater,, Native voiceand emeritus, Asian American theater company. These artistic opportunities informed his passion for the realization and the creation of theater at the bottom of the community.
