Convening participants include Victoria Bailey, Executive Director of Theatre Development Fund; Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Jeremy Cohen, Producing Artistic Director of The Playwright's Center; Lydia R. Diamond, playwright; Kristoffer Diaz, playwright; Erik Ehn, Head of Playwriting at Brown University; Brad Erickson, Executive Director of Theatre Bay Area; Kamilah Forbes, Artistic Director of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival; Rha Goddess, artist and activist; Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; Mara Isaacs, Producing Director at the McCarter Theatre Center; Jennifer Kiger, Associate Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre; Marc Masterson, Artistic Director of The Actors Theatre of Louisville; Richard Montoya, co-founder of Culture Clash; Diane Ragsdale, previously with the Performing Arts program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Diane Rodriguez, Director of New Play Development at Center Theatre Group; Michael Rohd, Founding Artistic Director of Sojourn Theatre; Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Molly Smith, Artistic Director of Arena Stage, among others. Arena Stage Resident Playwrights Amy Freed, Katori Hall, Lisa Kron, Charles Randolph-Wright, and Karen Zacaríaswill also attend. A full list of convening participant biographies, agenda and additional information regarding the convening can be found at www.arenastage.org/new-play-institute/convenings/new-work/.
From Scarcity to Abundance: Capturing the Moment for the New Work Sector Agenda:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. The Intersection of the For-Profit & Not-For-Profit Theater
Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the NEA,Moderated by Diane Ragsdale
By invitation only in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle
Live-streamed online on #NewPlay TV
3:45 - 4:45 p.m. Massive Thoughts from Four Big Thinkers
Lydia R. Diamond, Kirk Lynn, Marc Masterson & Meiyin Wang, Moderated by Deborah Cullinan
By invitation only in the Molly Smith Study
Live-streamed online on # NewPlay TV
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Outrageous Fortune: One Year Later
David Dower interviews Todd London
By invitation only in the Molly Smith Study
Live-streamed online on #NewPlay TV
8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Clips from the NEA-NPDP Documentary
Narrated by filmmaker Robert Levi
Followed by
NEA-NPDP Artists Talk Process
Aditi Brennan Kapil, Lloyd Suh, Lana Lesley, Claudia Rankine & Joanne Winter,Moderated by Polly Carl
By invitation only in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle
(NEA-NPDP Artists Talk Processlive-streamed online on # NewPlay TV)
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Frisson or friction? Artists and Institutions
By invitation only
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
10:15 - 10:45 a.m. Breakout
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
11:45 - 12:15 p.m. Breakout
What's Diversity got to do with it?
By invitation only
1:15 - 2:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Breakout
Theater Outside the Box: Devisers & Ensembles
By invitation only
3:45 - 4:30 p.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
4:30 - 5:15 p.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
5:15 - 6:00 p.m. Breakout
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. # NewPlay Festival: The Provenance of Beauty (open to the public)
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. # NewPlay Festival: The Provenance of Beauty (open to the public)
Friday, January 28, 2011
Connectivity at Work: Networks & Partnerships
By invitation only
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
11:45 - 12:15 p.m. Breakout
Go Tweet Yourself! New Technologies in the New Work Sector
By invitation only
1:15 - 2:00 p.m. The New Play Map Lecture Demo (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Uses for the New Play Map (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
8:00 p.m. # NewPlay Festival: I've Never Been So Happy (open to the public)
Saturday, January 29, 2011
By invitation only
Designing Tomorrow: Action Steps
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
10:15 - 10:45 a.m. Breakout
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (live streamed on # NewPlay TV)
11:45 - 12:15 p.m. Breakout
2:00 p.m. #NewPlay Festival: Pastures of Heaven (open to the public)
The Institute will host two more convenings in the spring of 2011 focused on the role of literary managers and communications in new play development.
The Institute at Arena Stage is designed as a center for research and development of effective practices, programs and processes for new play development in the American Theater. The Institute operates under the leadership of Molly Smith, driven by Associate Artistic Director David Dower. The Institute includes a suite of interrelated programs, all of which are built upon innovative models currently operating in the field that demonstrate potential for replication in other communities. For more information visit http://www.arenastage.org/new-play-institute.
The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (www.ddcf.org) is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child abuse, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Performing Arts Program currently provides multi-year grants on an invitation-only basis to leading orchestras, theater companies, opera companies, modern dance companies and dance-specific presenters based in the United States. Although the Foundation does not confine its support to large organizations with national visibility, it does seek to support institutions that contribute to the preservation and development of their art form, provide creative leadership in solving problems or addressing issues unique to the field, and which present the highest level of institutional performance. Grants are awarded on the basis of artistic merit and leadership in the field, and concentrate on achieving long-term results. In conjunction with regular program grants, the Foundation also makes a limited number of grants to research and service organizations that are doing work closely related to program goals.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is a national center dedicated to the production, presentation, development and study of American theater. Arena Stage produces huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit, and presents diverse and ground-breaking work from some of the best artists around the country. Arena Stage is committed to commissioning and developing new plays through the American Voices New Play Institute. Now in its sixth decade, Arena Stage serves a diverse annual audience of more than 200,000. www.arenastage.org.
